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“We stand on a great threshold in the human history of space exploration. If life is prevalent in our neighborhood of the galaxy, it is within our resources and technological reach to be the first generation in human history to finally cross this threshold, and to learn if there is life of any kind beyond Earth.”

Ifs Firsts Humans Kind Earth Life Is Space Generations Walking Moon Resources Crosses Neighborhood Exploration Technological Galaxy Human History Space Exploration Threshold Star Gazing

Author:Sara Seager

“I don't know of any other city where you can walk through so many culturally diverse neighborhoods, and you're never out of sight of the wild hills. Nature is very close here.”

Knows Walks Cities Sight Hills Neighborhood Diverse San Francisco Bay Area Favorite City

Author:Gary Snyder

“Barack Obama and Michelle Obama don't go to Georgetown. The Clintons did, indeed. And the Clintons go out and about in Washington now. They go to neighborhood restaurants.”

Clinton Barack Restaurants Neighborhood Georgetown

Author:Kitty Kelley

“Real people do real things. A collective of a whole bunch of people who do things in their own locale, in their own neighborhoods - the sum is bigger than the parts, and the parts will grow.”

People Real Whole Grows Bigger Bunch Collectives Neighborhood Real Things

Author:Chuck D

“I'm a kid who grew up in an all African-American neighborhood and got into schools and aspired to just be me, and didn't worry about labels or anything. Just wanted to be a success at what I did.”

Kids Wanted School Worry Grew Grew Up African American Labels Neighborhood

Author:Darius Rucker

“Every Maryland family wants financial security, schools that work, quality healthcare, safer neighborhoods, and ever-expanding economic opportunity. These are the building blocks of a superior quality of life.”

Want School Opportunity Quality Economic Security Building Financial Superiors Block Neighborhood Healthcare Expanding Quality Of Life Building Blocks Financial Security Quality Work Maryland

Author:Bob Ehrlich

“When I was younger, I was one of the few girls in the neighborhood who could break dance. That's kind of my local, ghetto-celebrity claim to fame.”

Kind Girl Break Fame Claims Locals Neighborhood Ghetto

Author:Joy Bryant

“As I visited the various neighborhoods in the campaign, I learned fast that it's a mistake to think that all of the wisdom and possible solutions to our problems are available only in this building.”

Thinking Problem Mistake Building Solutions Various Available Campaigns Neighborhood

Author:Jane Byrne

“But as important as the job to be done by government in the neighborhoods, the people must also be involved.”

People Important Done Government Jobs Involved Neighborhood

Author:Jane Byrne

“For my part, I plan to work out a fair and adequate redistribution of city services to all city neighborhoods.”

Cities Plans Fairs Work Out Neighborhood Adequate

Author:Jane Byrne

“You know, growing up, I lived in a neighborhood in Long Island where there was basically one black family. And I remember hearing all the parents and the kids in the neighborhood say racist things about this family.”

Knows Long Kids Remember Parent Black Growing Up Growing Hearing Islands Neighborhood Racist Long Island Black Family

Author:Lorraine Bracco

“I remember one winter, when I was about five or six, I spent three days with another boy, tracking a bobcat that had been sighted in another county fifty miles away, but which I was sure had come into our neighborhood.”

Remember Three Boys Five Six Winter Miles Fifty Neighborhood County Miles Away Tracking Bobcats

Author:Terry Brooks

“I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.”

Children Book Boys Growing Up Growing Neighborhood Observant

Author:Beverly Cleary

“I had grown up in a privileged, upper-caste Hindu community; and because my father worked for a Catholic hospital, we lived in a prosperous Christian neighborhood.”

Christian Father Community Catholic Neighborhood Hospitals Privileged Prosperous Castes

Author:Aravind Adiga

“I've been at the funerals of a lot of people in my neighborhood. Sometimes when I sit back and relax, I think about that and just blank out.”

People Thinking Sometimes Relax Neighborhood Funeral Blank

Author:Carmelo Anthony

“MFA programs are to the world of art what gentrification is to your neighborhood.”

World Art Program Neighborhood Gentrification

Author:Sarah Schulman

“I had a happy, dramafree youth, growing up in an upper-middle-class neighborhood in Dallas, Texas. The only thing that was slightly unusual compared to most of my friends was that I was an only child... I don't think that's why my parents gave me a dummy, at least they've never copped to it.”

Thinking Children Parent Class Growing Up Growing Middle Youth My Friends Middle Class Neighborhood Texas Unusual Dallas Only Child Dummy Upper Middle Class Dallas Texas

Book:All By My Selves: Walter, Peanut, Achmed, and Me

Source: All By My Selves: Walter, Peanut, Achmed, and Me

“I hate to date myself, but my earliest memories are Flash Gordon. I would love playing Flash Gordon in the neighborhood.”

Hate Memories I Hate Neighborhood Flash Flash Gordon

Author:Bruce Davison

“I wrote poetry, journals, and, especially, plays for the neighborhood kids to perform. I had an ordinary, happy childhood. Nothing much was going on, but I had fun.”

Play Kids Fun Childhood Ordinary Neighborhood Journal Had Fun Happy Childhood I Had Fun

Author:Alex Flinn

“When I was a kid, I would make kung fu movies with the kids in the neighborhood, and I would be the guy behind the camera directing everybody, but they were all very silly little shorts and comedy bits.”

Littles Would Be Kids Guy Bits Behinds Comedy Cameras Silly Neighborhood Shorts Kung Fu Silly Little Kung Fu Movie

Author:Dan Fogler

“Well, actually, if you can stay in your home that is a better deal for the neighborhood. It's certainly a better deal for the person that is in their home, rather than to be on the street and for that house to go into foreclosure and become a problem for the whole community.”

Ifs Wells Persons Whole Problem Home House Community Deals Streets Neighborhood Foreclosure

Author:John Garamendi

“I think the Lower East Side inspires me. That whole neighborhood, a lot of the people that I worked with, seeing what we've gone through in life, being given an opportunity to understand who I am; my identity, my culture, and my roots.”

People Thinking Whole Culture Opportunity Given Sides Gone Seeing Identity Inspire Roots East Who I Am Neighborhood East Side

Author:Luis Guzman

“Where I grew up, we had the three TV networks, maybe two radio stations, no cable TV. We still had a long-distance party line in our neighborhood, so you could listen to all your neighbors' phone calls. We had a very small public library, and the nearest bookstore was an hour away.”

“Soho is a gritty former mercantile area that has, of course, evolved into the most bourgeois neighborhood in New York.”

Courses New York Areas Former Neighborhood Bourgeois Soho

Author:Andre Balazs

“If in a city we had six vacant lots available to the youngsters of a certain neighborhood for playing ball, it might be "development" to build houses on the first, and the second, and the third, and the fourth, and even the fifth, but when we build houses on the last one, we forget what houses are for.”

Ifs Firsts Might Lasts Certain House Nature Forget Cities Development Six Thirds Balls Available Neighborhood Fourth Fifth Youngsters Vacant

Book:Aldo Leopold's Southwest

Source: Aldo Leopold's Southwest

“If there's something strange in your neighborhood, who you gonna call? Ghost Busters.”

Ifs Strange Ghost Neighborhood Controversy Busters

Author:Ray Parker, Jr.

“Creatures crawl in search of blood to terrorize your neighborhood. And whosoever shall be found without the soul for getting down, must stand and face the hounds of hell, and rot inside a corpse's shell.”

Soul Faces Poetry Found Hell Blood Creatures Neighborhood Shells Corpses Hounds

Author:Michael Jackson

“I've seen neighborhoods that I would have never driven though because I'm riding my bike, because I'm looking for side roads, looking for maybe more hills or less hills depending if I'm exercising or not. You see a lot more, and you get the flow of a city a lot more.”

Ifs Sides Cities Exercise Flow Driven Hills Neighborhood Riding Bike

Author:Stone Gossard

“I loved it, but had to forget about acting after elementary school because it was the sort of thing you just didn't do in my rough neighborhood.”

School Forget Acting Neighborhood Rough Elementary School

Author:Sherman Hemsley

“People who volunteer at the recycling center or soup kitchen through a church or neighborhood group can come to feel part of something 'larger.' Such a sense of belonging calls on a different part of a self than the market calls on. The market calls on our sense of self-interest. It focuses us on what we 'get.'”

People Feels Different Self Interest Church Groups Kitchen Neighborhood Belonging Volunteer Soup Self Interest Sense Of Self Recycling Soup Kitchens

Author:Arlie Russell Hochschild

“I grew up in a very racially integrated place called Pottstown. It was an agricultural / industrial town which has since become a suburb of Philadelphia. I grew up basically in a black neighborhood.”

Black Grew Grew Up Towns Neighborhood Integrated Suburbs Philadelphia

Author:Daryl Hall

“I was the freak who moved into the nice neighborhood.”

Nice Moved Neighborhood Freak

Author:Davey Havok

“Is Israel going to continue to be 'Fortress Israel'? Or, as we all hope, become accepted into the neighborhood, which I believe is the only way we can move forward in harmony.”

Way Believe Moving I Believe Harmony Israel Accepted Moving Forward Neighborhood Fortresses

Author:Abdallah II

“Detroit is a city that really stands out. It's been through a very difficult time. There's been a lot of pain here, and the city, physically, has suffered. You can see it in certain neighborhoods, and there's buildings downtown that have been abandoned.”

Has Beens Pain Certain Difficult Cities Building Neighborhood Abandoned Standing Out Difficult Times Detroit Downtown

Author:Michael Imperioli

“I lay my head on the wheel and the horn begins honking, the whole neighborhood knows that I'm home drunk again.”

Knows Whole Home Lays Drunk Wheels Neighborhood Horns Taboo Social Taboos Honking

Author:George Jones

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