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“In my neighborhood, everyone had an opinion on the local cantor. You didn't go to a synagogue to listen to the rabbi's sermon. You went to listen to the cantor. It was like a concert.”

Opinion Locals Neighborhood Concerts Sermons Rabbi Synagogue

Author:Alan Dershowitz

“We need a more peaceful world, growing out of more peaceful families and neighborhoods and communities. To secure and cultivate such peace, "we must love others, even our enemies as well as our friends"”

World Love Needs Wells Peace Community Enemy Growing Peaceful Secure Neighborhood Peaceful World

Book:That We Might Have Joy

Source: That We Might Have Joy

“It is goodness that gives to a neighborhood its beauty. One who is free to choose, yet does not prefer to dwell among the good - how can he be accorded the name of wise?”

Giving Doe Names Beauty Wise Goodness Neighborhood

Book:The Analects of Confucius

Source: The Analects of Confucius

“We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a community, which we have not even acknowledged that that community exists up until this point.”

Life Community Planets Neighborhood

Author:Edgar Mitchell

“In Manhattan, and its true on some level till this day; its a whole different mentality from the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens, which I didn't know at the time - because you basically just know your neighborhood.”

Knows Different Whole Levels Queens Neighborhood This Day Mentality Brooklyn Manhattan Bronx Different Mentality

Author:Kool Moe Dee

“We want to begin in working-class neighborhoods. We want to test the concept there, because our idea is that fair trade should not just be for the elites, but for everyone, for the majority, for the poor people. Quality food for poor people. Why just quality for the rich? And at an equal price”

People Want Should Ideas Poor Quality Class Rich Equal Concepts Fairs Tests Trade Majority Neighborhood Elites Working Class Poor People Fair Trade

Author:Victor Suarez Melendez

“When I became my masked identity I was this incredible little nerd, but in the real world I had to be this tough kid from the neighborhood.”

World Littles Real Kids Identity Tough Incredibles Neighborhood Real World Nerd

Author:Junot Diaz

“I was part of that group of kids growing up in the '80s under the Reagan regime, what I used to call 'living in the shadow of Dr. Manhattan,' where we would have dreams all the time that New York City was being destroyed, and that that wall of light and destruction was rolling out and would just devour our neighborhood.”

Dream Light Kids Used Cities Growing Up Growing Groups New York Wall Shadow Destruction Destroyed Neighborhood New York City Regimes Rolling Drs 80s Manhattan Kids Growing Up

Author:Junot Diaz

“I've always wanted to have a neighbor just like you. I've always wanted to live in a neighborhood with you.”

Home Wanted Like You Neighbor Neighborhood

Author:Fred Rogers

“The alarming thing in China is the almost total absence of primary care. Even in cities, there are no independent doctors' offices or neighborhood clinics, so people have to go to the hospital for every health care need.”

People Needs Care Cities Office Doctors Independent China Absence Primaries Health Care Neighborhood Hospitals Hospitality Clinic Primary Care

Author:Nancy Travis

“It is not so much WHERE you live, as HOW you live, and whether good flows from you through your neighborhood”

Flow Neighborhood Where You Live

Author:William Arthur Dunkerley

“I don't know about you, but in my neighborhood, they just opened a Starbucks... IN A STARBUCKS!!!”

Knows Neighborhood Starbucks

Author:Dennis Miller

“Violence is a problem we all want to solve. I want to make sure that kids learn to deal with anger by learning how to talk with people to solve problems. Here in the United States Senate I want to make sure we have safe schools, safe neighborhoods and good things for kids to do after school!”

People Want States Problem Kids School United Deals United States Violence Safe Anger Good Things Solve Neighborhood Senate After School

Author:Patty Murray

“They were not easy years. You have to understand, I was raised in a lovely neighborhood, as was Mitt, and at BYU, we moved into a $62-a-month basement apartment with a cement floor and lived there two years as students with no income... Neither one of us had a job, because Mitt had enough of an investment from stock that we could sell off a little at a time.”

Years Littles Two Enough Jobs Easy Students Months Sells Moved Investment Raised Lovely Income Neighborhood Two Years Apartment Had Enough Basements Cement Byu

Author:Ann Romney

“The Catholic Church must be the biggest corporation in the United States. We have a branch office in every neighborhood. Our assets and real estate holdings must exceed those of Standard Oil, A.T.&T., and U.S. Steel combined. And our roster of dues-paying members must be second only to the tax rolls of the United States Government.”

“The great enemy of freedom is the alignment of political power with wealth. This alignment destroys the commonwealth - that is, the natural wealth of localities and the local economies of household, neighborhood, and community - and so destroys democracy, of which the commonwealth is the foundation and practical means.”

Mean Political Community Natural Wealth Enemy Economy Democracy Foundation Practicals Locals Neighborhood Household Alignment Political Power Commonwealth Locality

Book:The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry

Source: The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry

“The church is like manure. Pile it up, and it stinks up the neighborhood. Spread it out, and it enriches the world.”

World Christian Funny Change Church Religious Humorous Spread Christian Inspirational Changing The World Neighborhood Stink Manure

Author:Luis Palau

“The most important decision I've made in business? The choices of people I have around me. When I first started I brought everybody with me, my homies from the neighborhood, criminals. I just said, 'Come on everybody, we made it.' Then I had to realize we didn't make it. I made it.”

People Firsts Made Said Important Choices Realizing Decision Criminals Made It Neighborhood Important Decisions Homies

Author:Snoop Dogg

“If somebody comes to a neighborhood coffee hour, or goes to a discussion group, and they have a discussion, I do think that people really walk away with a real understanding of the issues.”

People Ifs Thinking Real Understanding Hours Walks Issues Groups Coffee Discussion Neighborhood

Author:Mike Lowry

“The United States imprisons a larger percentage of its black population than South Africa did at the height of apartheid. In Washington, D.C., our nation’s capitol, it is estimated that three out of four young black men (and nearly all those in the poorest neighborhoods) can expect to serve time in prison.”

Source: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

“Maximum Rocknroll didn't have a map section. How was I supposed to know that Berkeley was not a neighborhood of San Francisco?”

Knows Neighborhood Maps Sections Maximum San Francisco Berkeley

Author:Bucky Sinister

“You shouldn't have to leave your neighborhood to live in a better one.”

Neighborhood

Author:Majora Carter

“The creation of a more peaceful and happier society has to begin from the level of the individual, and from there it can expand to one's family, to one's neighborhood, to one's community and so on.”

Individual Community Levels Family Society Creation Happy Peaceful Buddhist Neighborhood Expanding Contribution To Society

Book:The Art of Happiness in a Troubled World

Source: The Art of Happiness in a Troubled World

“A white college student from a private college goes into a poor neighborhood and volunteers four hours a week and that's considered exemplary. [Whereas] a poor kid who lives in that community and takes care of all the kids in that neighborhood four hours every day is not seen as a volunteer.”

Care Kids Community Hours White Poor Four Week Students College Take Care Neighborhood Volunteer College Students Exemplary Poor Neighborhoods

Author:Patricia Hill Collins

“I think those neighborhood signs that say 'slow children playing' are mean.”

Thinking Mean Children Humor Funny Comedy Neighborhood Children Playing

Author:Zach Galifianakis

“Religion informs us that misery and sin were produced together. The depravation of human will was followed by a disorder of the harmony of nature; and by that Providence which often places antidotes in the neighborhood of poisons, vice was checked by misery, lest it should swell to universal and unlimited dominion.”

Should Humans Together Sin Universal Harmony Misery Vices Poison Neighborhood Disorder Providence Unlimited Antidote Dominion Human Will

Book:Life and Writings

Source: Life and Writings

“Unless the peace that follows recognizes that the whole world is one neighborhood and does justice to the whole human race, the germs of another world war will remain as a constant threat to mankind.”

World Humans Doe War Whole Political Justice Race Mankind Constant Threat Whole World Human Race War Of The Worlds Neighborhood Memorial Another World Germs

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1943, Volume 12

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1943, Volume 12

“When my father finally got around to teaching me to drive, he was impressed at my "natural" talent for driving, not knowing that I had already been secretly driving my mother's car around the neighborhood. When I took the test and got my license and my father gave me my own set of keys to the car one night at dinner, it was a major rite of passage for him and my mother. Their perception of me had changed and was formally acknowledged. For me the occasion meant a private sanction to do in public what I had already been doing in secret.”

“Tonight, I am pleased to announce that I have secured $1 million from the Convention Host Committee to fund the beautification of Boston's neighborhoods.”

Millions Tonight Neighborhood Fund Host Conventions Committees Boston Secured Beautification

Author:Thomas Menino

“At the time I attempted to purchase the rights back for the 3 Homestead records, but the owner demanded an outrageous sum in the neighborhood of $10,000, about 10 times more money than I could get my hands on at the time.”

Hands Records Rights Neighborhood Owners More Money Outrageous Homesteading

Author:Marc Edwards

“Kindness is the connection that links us all together and strengthens the bonds within our communities, neighborhoods, and families.”

Together Community Kindness Connections Neighborhood Links Our Community

Author:Rosalynn Carter

“We can't do much about ensuring that the homeland is safe if our local police and sheriffs' departments don't have the personnel they need to keep our streets and neighborhoods secure.”

Ifs Needs Streets Safe Police Locals Secure Department Neighborhood Homeland Personnel Sheriffs

Author:Dick Durbin

“Now it's time to focus on basics for people in our neighborhoods... and real ethics reform at City Hall.”

People Real Cities Focus Ethics Reform Neighborhood Halls Reformation Basics City Hall

Author:Laura Miller

“It's like the neighborhood I would have grown up in, I think, if I had have grown up here.”

Ifs Thinking Stupid Republican Neighborhood

Author:Alan Keyes

“Currently, it was leading him through a neighborhood that was on the downside of whatever curve you hoped you'd bought your property on the upside of. Graffiti and garbage were everywhere here. They were everywhere in the city, if it came to that, but elsewhere the garbage was better quality, and the graffiti was close to being correctly spelled. The whole area was waiting for something to happen, like a really bad fire.”

Ifs Whole Happens Waiting Cities Quality Fire Areas Property Neighborhood Elsewhere Curves Garbage Graffiti Waiting For Something

Author:Terry Pratchett

“The next night I got on an airplane, and flew to New York and looked into acting schools. Four or five acting schools. One of which was the Neighborhood Playhouse, which I started at six months there after.”

School Night Next Acting Five Four New York Months Six Neighborhood Airplane Six Months Flew Aeroplanes

Author:Dabney Coleman

“A viable neighborhood is a community: and a viable community is made up of neighbors who cherish and protect what they have in common.”

Made Community Common Protect Environmental Neighbor Neighborhood Cherish

Book:In the Presence of Fear: Three Essays for a Changed World

Source: In the Presence of Fear: Three Essays for a Changed World

“Trees are contagious; as soon as one neighborhood or street is planted, citizen pressure builds up for action from the next street.”

Action Next Tree Streets Citizens Pressure Neighborhood Contagious Eco

Author:William H. Whyte

“When you live in a poor neighborhood, you are living in an area where you have poor schools. When you have poor schools, you have poor teachers. When you have poor teachers, you get a poor education. When you get a poor education, you can only work in a poor-paying job. And that poor-paying job enables you to live again in a poor neighborhood. So, it's a very vicious cycle.”

School Jobs Poor Teacher Areas Neighborhood Cycles Vicious Vicious Cycles Poor Neighborhoods Poor Education

Author:Malcolm X

“The best real-estate investments with the highest yields are in working-class neighborhoods, because fancy properties are overpriced.”

Real Class Highest Property Investment Fancy Neighborhood Yield Estates Working Class

Author:Jane Bryant Quinn

“I do not know how to love God except by loving the poor. I do not know how to serve God except by serving the poor.... Here, within this great city of nine million people, we must, in this neighborhood, on this street, in this parish, regain a sense of community which is the basis for peace in the world.”

People Knows World Community Poor Cities Millions Know How Streets Bases Nine God Love Neighborhood Serving Serving God Great Cities How To Love Parish

Author:Dorothy Day

“We too can be saints in our family, in our neighborhood, wherever we live and work. Be a person who listens to what people need, communicating not only to grieve or tell others about your own problems. Listen in order to intercede and help out.”

People Needs Persons Helping Problem Order Saint Communicate Our Family Grieving Neighborhood

Author:Pope Francis

“People lived in the same apartments for years. You'd meet a group of kids in kindergarten, and you'd still be with them in high school. No one ever left the neighborhood.”

People Years Stills Kids School Left Groups High School Neighborhood Apartment Kindergarten

Author:Fran Drescher

“Mistakes live in the neighbourhood of truth and therefore delude us.”

Mistake Neighborhood

Author:Rabindranath Tagore

“I worry about the kids who have too much. As a parent living in a so-called good neighborhood with children who went to private high school, I found myself spending much time in parent groups worrying about alcohol, unsupervised parties, and parents not being parents.”

Children Kids School Found Parent Party Worry Too Much Groups High School Spending Alcohol Neighborhood Being A Parent

Author:Marian Wright Edelman

“Education in the true sense, of course, is an enablement to serve-both the living human community in its natural household or neighborhood and the precious cultural possessions that the living community inherits or should inherit.”

Should Humans Courses Community Natural Possession Neighborhood Household

Author:Wendell Berry

“The real problem is that through our scientific genius we’ve made of the world a neighborhood, but through our moral and spiritual genius we’ve failed to make of it a brotherhood.”

World Made Real Problem Spiritual Moral Genius Neighborhood Brotherhood Real Problems

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Travel is the only context in which some people ever look around. If we spent half the energy looking at our own neighborhoods, we'd probably learn twice as much.”

People Ifs Looks Energy Half Travel Neighborhood

Author:Lucy R. Lippard

“As a child growing up in pre-gentrification Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, I went everywhere by bicycle. My bike was in many ways the key to my neighborhood, which, at the time, was Boerum Hill, Brooklyn. This was in the 60s and 70s, before all the white people and restaurants. I really can't underscore boldly enough the fact that I grew up in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, before it was gentrified. You could get mugged!”

“We can make this a more peaceful century if we cherish non-violence and concern for others’ well-being. It is possible. If the individual is happier, his or her family is happier; if families are happy, neighborhoods and nations will be happy. By transforming ourselves we can change our human way of life and make this a century of compassion.”

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