“ He was an enormous talent, and for him to have been able to offer that to children through the neighborhood all through these years was a great gift. ”
- Fred Rogers- Copy
- 2.9K
“ I grew up playing war. We threw dirt and rocks at each other. We'd lead attacks. We'd break up into squads. It became a neighborhood thing for a while, our neighborhood against the other neighborhood. There was always a war breaking out somewhere. ”
- David James Elliott- Copy
- 265
“ In some Chicago neighborhoods, looking for a parking space is not unlike panning for gold. ”
- Gary Washburn- Copy
- 1.2K
“ A lot of real Chicago lives in the neighborhood taverns. It is the mixed German and Irish and Polish gift to the city, a bit of the old country grafted into a strong new plant in the new. ”
- Bill Granger- Copy
- 225
“ In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound. ”
- Edward Koch- Copy
- 1.3K
“ I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets. ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
- 393
“ We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America. ”
- Dan Quayle- Copy
- 2.2K
“ It was a pretty rough neighborhood where I grew up The really tough places were over around Third Avenue where it ran into the Harlem River, but we weren't far away. ”
- Norman Rockwell- Copy
- 4K
“ Backstage they think the only reason he's even in the vicinity was because they told him this whole thing was yesterday. ”
- Paul Newman- Copy
- 2.6K
“ You have to have a lot more dedication to what I'll call 'the machine,'... I have 20 percent dedication. What's needed is 110 percent. You can't have it with the level of apathy I have. ”
- Janeane Garofalo- Copy
- 2.1K
“ No one is going to turn down a good meal because he does not understand the digestive mechanism. ”
- V. I. Klassen- Copy
- 1.7K
“ We looked to acquire the worst properties in good neighborhoods and rehab them to stimulate improvement by other property owners in the neighborhood. ”
- David Wood- Copy
- 2.9K
“ I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark. ”
- Dick Gregory- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Love thy neighbour as yourself, but choose your neighbourhood. ”
- Louise Beal- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Love thy neighbor as thyself, but choose your neighborhood. ”
- Louise Beal- Copy
- 3.6K
“ A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse. ”
- John Ciardi- Copy
- 1.4K
“ A neighborhood is where, when you go out of it, you get beat up. ”
- Murray Kempton- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Be a loyal friend, a loving parent, a citizen who leaves home, neighborhood, and town better for having lived for others. ”
- George H. Bush- Copy
- 2K
“ Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies. ”
- Jane Austen- Copy
- 220
“ Of neighborhoods, benevolence is the most beautiful. How can the man be considered wise who when he had the choice does not settle in benevolence. ”
- Confucius- Copy
- 2.6K
“ You can't walk through a neighborhood in most Muslim communities without being exposed to a street, school or stadium honoring a terrorist. Gaza alone has more than 300 streets named for shahids. ”
- Suzanne Fields- Copy
- 2.3K
“ The poor suffer twice at the rioter's hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment. ”
- Lyndon B. Johnson- Copy
- 622
“ We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood. ”
- Lyndon B. Johnson- Copy
- 3.2K
“ I don't know what it was, maybe the movie theaters in my immediate surrounding neighbourhood in Burbank, but I never saw what would be considered A movies. ”
- Tim Burton- Copy
- 3.2K
“ I came from a real tough neighborhood. I put my hand in some cement and felt another hand. ”
- Rodney Dangerfield- Copy
- 294
“ The kernel is the belief that God is love and, in Catholicism, God's love is present in the world. It is in the sacraments, in the Eucharist, in our families, in our friends, in our neighborhood, and forgiveness in the touch of a friendly hand, in a rediscovered love God is there. ”
- Andrew Greeley- Copy
- 2K
“ I put in work for my neighborhood. Hundreds of bills, measures, budget items, and hearings. I always tried to make it a point to stay late, to always run the longest hearings, to carry nearly the most bills. The tragedy was that of the 18 years I was in Sacramento, 16 years were under Republican governors. ”
- Tom Hayden- Copy
- 3K
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