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“Cities are beautiful because they are created slowly; they are made by time. A city is born from a tangle of monuments and infrastructures , culture and market, national history and everyday stories. It takes 500 years to create a city, 50 to create a neighborhood.”

Years Made Stories Beautiful Culture Born Cities Everyday Neighborhood Infrastructure Monument

Author:Renzo Piano

“Cleanliness is not next to godliness. It isn't even in the same neighborhood.”

Next Neighborhood Godliness Cleanliness Chores Toasters

Author:Erma Bombeck

“I like you just the way you are.”

Way Like You Neighborhood I Like You Manageable

Author:Fred Rogers

“I think the education system is great just the way it is. There's kids in my neighborhood in Los Angeles, seven years old, that can already speak fluent Spanish.”

Thinking Way Years Kids Speak Seven Neighborhood Los Angeles Seven Years Education System Fluent

Author:Kevin Nealon

“I don't live in a fancy neighborhood.”

Fancy Neighborhood

Author:Judah Friedlander

“You have to work from one point to go to another. So I admire work ethic, I think it should be reinforced through our neighborhoods, that everybody should work hard, practice makes perfect, you have to be diligent with what you want, you have to apply yourself, you have to motivate your self. You have to do for self by yourself, and then you can do things for other people. That's what I had to do, I had to do for self.”

People Thinking Want Should Self Hard Can Do Perfect Practice Hard Work Ethics What You Want Admire Neighborhood Work Ethic Diligent Practice Makes Perfect

Author:Tupac Shakur

“My father's best friend, Georgie Terra, was an Italian guy. The children and the cousins and nieces and nephews were children of the Mafia. Those were the children he grew up with. If you want to go to a safe neighborhood, go to where the Mafia is.”

Ifs Want Children Guy Father Grew Safe Grew Up Neighborhood Italian Cousin Mafia Nephew Niece My Niece Niece And Nephew Russian Mafia

Author:Louis Gossett, Jr.

“The reason most of the children are having problems in any inner-city neighborhood is because they don't see enough positive role models in their own environment.”

Children Reason Enough Problem Cities Roles Environment Models Neighborhood Role Models Inner City Positive Role Model

Author:Marla Gibbs

“I have a lightsaber at my front door for home protection. I have an 800-watt electric skateboard that I use to run errands in my neighborhood. It can go about six, seven miles, so depending on how much time I have, and how much I have to carry home, I'll take it really far. I love that thing.”

Use Home Running Doors Fronts Six Seven Protection Miles Neighborhood Electric Front Doors Errands

Author:Nathan Fillion

“Mac Rebennack, better known as Dr. John, once told me that when a brass band plays at a small club back up in one of the neighborhoods, it’s as if the audience—dancing, singing to the refrains, laughing—is part of the band.”

Ifs Play Known Audience Laughing Band Singing Dancing Clubs Neighborhood Drs Refrain Macs Brass Brass Bands

Book:Why New Orleans Matters

Source: Why New Orleans Matters

“Scripture starts with the particular and then universalizes it. You are called to love your concrete individual neighbor and then to realize that every individual is your neighbor. The point is not to destroy concrete neighborhood in a fit of universalism but to expand the local neighborhood and embrace the universal neighborhood.”

Love Individual Realizing Love You Particular Fit Universal Embrace Neighbor Scripture Locals Neighborhood Concrete Universalism

Book:The God Who Loves You: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling

Source: The God Who Loves You: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling

“When the world seems large and complex, we need to remember that great world ideals all begin in some home neighborhood.”

World Needs Home Seems Remember Ideals Complexes Neighborhood

Author:Konrad Adenauer

“Touch was important. The evening of the Third of July we would go around the neighborhood and look at the fireworks others had bought, taking them out of the brown paper sack and handling them cautiously as if they were precious stones. There was envy when we saw sacks with more in them than we had.”

Ifs Looks Important Saws Paper Stones Thirds Envy Evening Brown Neighborhood July Fireworks Precious Stones

Author:Paul Engle

“In this new war, our enemy's platoons infiltrate our borders, quietly blending in with visiting tourists, students, and workers. They move unnoticed through our cities, neighborhoods, and public spaces. They wear no uniforms. Their camouflage is not forest green, but rather it is the color of common street clothing. Their tactics rely on evading recognition at the border and escaping detection within the United States. Their terrorist mission is to defeat America, destroy our values and kill innocent people.”

“We have to restore power to the family, to the neighborhood, and the community with a non-market principle, a principle of equality, of charity, of let's-take-care-of-one-another. That's the creative challenge.”

Care Community Challenges Principles Creative Charity Equality Take Care Neighborhood

Author:Jerry Brown

“But my friends, these people in Egypt have stood by us in a tough, tough neighborhood.”

People Friends My Friends Tough Neighborhood Egypt

Author:Roger Wicker

“Last night we had three small zucchini for dinner that were grown within fifty feet of our back door. I estimate they cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $371.49 each.”

Lasts Night Three Doors Feet Cost Dinner Fifty Neighborhood Vegetables Last Night Back Doors Zucchini

Author:Andy Rooney

“It seems to me that at 19 or 20, a young man is burning to be great at something. I was. You have a vision that's beyond the neighborhood. You want to make a mark while you're alive. You don't know exactly your future, but you want to be great at it. And greatness is an important word. And you dare not tell anybody how extreme and how burning are your visions, because you don't want anybody to mess with them”

“I grew up in a racially mixed neighborhood. So going over to friends' houses for dinner, their parents listened to Al Green and Luther Ingram. It was something that hit me early on, the feeling that came across.”

Feelings House Parent Grew Grew Up Green Dinner Neighborhood Als Luther

Author:Justin Townes Earle

“Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.”

Trying Persons Literature Neighborhood Mates

Author:Hesiod

“To work for better understanding among people, one does not have to be a former president sitting at a fancy conference room table. Peace can be made in the neighborhoods, the living rooms, the playing fields, and the classrooms of our country.”

People Doe Made Country Understanding President Rooms Fields Sitting Tables Our Country Former Fancy Neighborhood Classroom Conferences Living Room Playing Fields

Book:Talking Peace: A Vision for the Next Generation

Source: Talking Peace: A Vision for the Next Generation

“I am acquainted with a wife and mother who is chained securely at the present time to a life-style of murmuring and criticism. She is the first to point out faults in her husband or to repeat neighborhood gossip. How damaging is a habit that permits fault-finding, character assassination, and the sharing of malicious rumors! Gossip and caustic comments often create chains of contention. These chains may appear to be very small, but what misery and woe they can cause!”

Source: Be of Good Cheer

“You know, when I was a young boy I used to play baseball in my back yard or in the street with my brothers or the neighborhood kids. We used broken bats and plastic golf balls and played for hours and hours.”

Knows Play Kids Young Used Sports Hours Boys Streets Brother Broken Baseball Balls Golf My Brother Neighborhood Plastic Yards Bats Golf Ball

Author:Robin Yount

“During the 1960s, one neighborhood in San Francisco had the lowest income, the highest unemployment rate, the highest proportion of families with incomes under four thousand dollars a year, the least educational attainment, the highest tuberculosis rate, and the highest proportion of substandard housing ... That neighborhood was called Chinatown. Yet, in 1965, there were only five persons of Chinese ancestry committed to prison in the entire state of California.”

“I grew up kind of a tomboy and I used to fight with all the neighborhood boys.”

Kind Used Fighting Boys Grew Grew Up Neighborhood

Author:Edie Falco

“A community is made up of intimate relationships among diversified types of individuals--a kinship group, a local group, a neighborhood, a village, a large family.”

Made Individual Community Groups Type Locals Intimate Neighborhood Village Kinship Intimate Relationships Large Family

Author:Carroll Quigley

“Out of all the neighborhoods in Manhattan, Soho in particular had the charged atmosphere of a movie set, populated with passersby who looked like extras from Central Casting, so perfectly did they fit into this environment. There was the feeling of everything being not quite real, or too perfectly cliched to actually be true, and it began to rain in a fine, misty drizzle from a black patent leather sky.”

Real Feelings Black Environment Sky Particular Fine Fit Rain Being True Atmosphere Extras Neighborhood Casting Leather Manhattan Patents Misty Movie Sets Drizzle Soho

Author:Candace Bushnell

“Ahmed Johnson came from a neighborhood where the most common words heard was, You have the right to remain silent.”

Common Heard Silent Neighborhood Johnson

Author:Jerry Lawler

“Incendiary capitalism is carrying its out evil works more dangerously than ever, and is doing so in the increasingly dangerous neighborhood of the powder kegs that are the great European military powers.”

Evil Military Dangerous Capitalism Neighborhood Powder Military Power Kegs

Author:Karl Liebknecht

“I don't see anything wrong with a neighborhood association wanting to keep their neighborhood a certain way or their apartment complex a certain way. I don't see anything wrong with white kids wanting to go to school with white children, or black kids wanting to go to school with black kids.”

Way Children Kids School Certain Black White Complexes Neighborhood Association Apartment Ku Klux Klan

Author:David Duke

“New York has become an example of everything that is wrong with America. White Americans, fearing the crime and social alienation in New York City, commute endless hours to raise their families in safe, clean neighborhoods. The numbers of non-Americans, especially those from the Third World, are growing, and it is the hard working White New Yorker that pays the bill.”

“The human race had always disgusted me. essentially, what made them disgusting was the family-relationship illness, which included marriage, exchange of power and aid, which neighborhood, your district, your city, your county, your state, your nation-everybody grabbing each other's assholes in the Honeycomb of survival out of a fear-animalistic stupidity.”

Humans Made States Nations Race Cities Survival Illness Stupidity Aids Human Race Neighborhood Disgusting County Disgusted Grabbing Family Relationship Animalistic

Book:Tales of Ordinary Madness

Source: Tales of Ordinary Madness

“I don't know, I'm not from this neighborhood."-to Jake LaMotta after a night of drinking when LaMotta asked "is that the sun or the moon?”

Knows Night Sun Moon Drinking Boxing Neighborhood Jake

Author:Rocky Graziano

“In time of war, if you go through a bad neighborhood, I don't want a little French poodle, I want a Rottweiler on my hands.”

Ifs Want Littles War Hands Politics Neighborhood Poodles Rottweilers

Author:Gene Simmons

“Set about doing good to somebody. Put on your hat and go and visit the sick and poor of your neighborhood; inquire into their circumstances and minister to their wants. Seek out the desolate and afflicted and oppressed. . . I have often tried this method, and have always found it the best medicine for a heavy heart.”

Want Heart Found Community Poor Circumstances Sick Method Medicine Heavy Ministers Hats Neighborhood Oppressed Doing Good Desolate Heavy Heart

Author:Howard Stern

“I'm still the same person who grew up mostly in a Midwestern, factory-working neighborhood where talk about "self-esteem" would have seemed like a luxury.”

Persons Stills Self Self Esteem Grew Grew Up Esteem Luxury Neighborhood Factories

Book:Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem

Source: Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem

“Misery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it was home.”

Home Heard Misery Radio Neighborhood Slums

Book:The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Works for children and young adults: poetry, fiction, and other writing

Source: The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Works for children and young adults: poetry, fiction, and other writing

“A Negro just can't be whipped by somebody white and return with his head up in the neighborhood, especially in those days, when sports and, to a lesser extent show business, were the only fields open to Negroes, and when the ring was the only place a Negro could whip a white man and not be lynched.”

Men Shows Sports White Fields Return Rings Reputation Neighborhood White Man Show Business Whips Heads Up

Book:The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Source: The Autobiography of Malcolm X

“Those of Manhattan are the brokers on Wall Street and they talk of people who went to the same colleges; those from Queens are margin clerks in the back offices and they speak of friends who live in the same neighborhood.”

People Speak Streets College Wall Office Queens Neighborhood Margins Manhattan Clerks Brokers

Book:Table Money: A Novel

Source: Table Money: A Novel

“[T]he final step in becoming an urban farmer is the naming of your farm, even if your name is simply for the few pots on your front porch. Creating your name helps to build a sense of place within your neighborhood as well as pride in your accomplishments. By naming your farm you give it a life of its own. Be creative and come up with a name that inspires and makes people smile, like my friend Laura's "Wish We Had Acres," the Fairy Tale inspired "Jack's Bean Stalk" or my "Urban Farm.”

“It is disgraceful that people are being barred from neighborhoods and clubs on a basis that would have barred Jesus Himself.”

People Jesus Bases Clubs Neighborhood Disgraceful

Author:James Pike

“Before my father would open up a karate school in a particular neighborhood, he'd clean up the block - kick all the drug dealers and gang bangers off the block. My father was very clear: 'I've got guns too, and I'll kill you just as much as a rival gang would.' And he meant it. He was a man of many facets and complexities.”

Men School Father Clear Particular Drug Gun Clean Block Kicks Complexity Neighborhood Gang Rivals Dealer Karate Facets Drug Dealers Fiasco

Author:Lupe Fiasco

“My favorite form of transportation is walking. I live in a neighborhood where you can walk to restaurants, banks, and shops.”

Form Walks Walking My Favorite Restaurants Shops Neighborhood Transportation

Author:Ed Begley, Jr.

“The women's movement hit my neighborhood like a freight train. Everybody got divorced. You wonder what would have happened to women if the suburbs hadn't been built.”

Ifs Wonder Happened Movement Built Train Neighborhood Divorced Suburbs

Author:Susan Faludi

“It's a paradox that most parents would never let their children associate with an undesirable person in their neighborhood, but many think nothing of letting them associate with the same type every day on TV.”

Thinking Children Persons Parent Television Tvs Type Neighborhood Paradox Associates Undesirable

Author:Randall Wright

“We want someone else to act. But miracles aren't what other people do. They're what each of us does. They're what happens when ordinary people take extraordinary action. To be a miracle doesn't mean you have to tackle problems across the globe. It means making a difference in your own living room, cubicle, neighborhood, community.”

Source: Be the Miracle: 50 Lessons for Making the Impossible Possible

“Should I be the one to play God? We're both about the same age, but we grew up in different neighborhoods.”

Different God Humor Age Funny Grew Grew Up Humorous Worried Neighborhood Playing God

Author:George Burns

“I can think of a number of areas in New York where three acres of nuclear waste would make the neighborhood safer to walk around in than it is now, and better lit.”

Thinking I Can Funny Three Walks Numbers New York Waste Humorous Areas Nuclear Neighborhood Lit Acres Nuclear Waste

Book:All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty

Source: All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty

“Everything you need for your better future and success has already been written.And guess What? It's all available.All you have to do is go to the library.But guess what?Only three percent of the people in America have a library card.Wow,they must be expensive!No, they're free.Probably in every neighborhood.Three percent!”

People Needs America Three Knowledge Written Percent Library Available Cards Expensive Neighborhood Wow Better Future Library Cards

Author:Jim Rohn

“Children, pray for the good of everyone. We should pray to God to give a good mind even to those who harm us. One cannot sleep peacefully when there is a theif in the neighborhood. Likewise, when we pray for the well-being of others, it is we who gain peace and quietude. Children, the mantra 'Loka samasta sukhino bhavantu' should be chanted at least once daily.”

Giving Should Mind Wells Children Sleep Meditation Praying Gains Harm Well Being Neighborhood Mantras Praying To God Peace And Quiet Good Mind

Author:Mata Amritanandamayi

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