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“I lived in lower-income neighborhoods in the inner city. Across the street were dark parts of the world. I've experienced the gamut, from third world to inner city to my parents working their way out of being secretaries and janitors to professors and real-estate people. They've shown me a path of perseverance and hard work in a peaceable way.”

People World Way Real Hard Parent Dark Cities Path Streets Hard Work Thirds Perseverance Income Neighborhood Professors Secretary Estates Third World Inner City Janitor Perseverance And Hard Work

Author:Kenna

“Everybody I hang with - the ranchers, the farmers, the cops, the teachers, the plumbers, everybody I hang with - they've got an alarm clock. They get up, they put their heart and their soul into being the very best that they can be. They want to be an asset to their families and their neighborhood. They want to be productive members of society.”

Want Heart Soul Teacher Members Get Up Clock Productive Neighborhood Assets Farmers Cop Alarms Plumber Alarm Clocks Ranchers

Author:Ted Nugent

“I was filming a movie in London, and I drove through Ireland. It was quite beautiful, and the countryside was really remarkable. The contrast between the countryside and Ireland, and the murals there, with Northern Ireland still being a part of the United Kingdom, there's just a stark contrast in those two things. And I found that the art that came out of the conflict was really spectacular because it was about remembering either events or points of view for local neighborhoods, or the rallying cries of one side against the other.”

“Enrolling your child in a recreational sport sponsored by your neighborhood recreation community centers is a great way to keep kids active.”

Way Children Kids Sports Community Active Your Children Neighborhood Recreation Community Centers

Author:Lee Haney

“Such poverty as we have today in all our great cities degrades the poor, and infects with its degradation the whole neighborhood in which they live. And whatever can degrade a neighborhood can degrade a country and a continent and finally the whole civilized world, which is only a large neighborhood.”

World Country Whole Today Poor Cities Poverty Neighborhood Civilized Continents Degradation Degrade Great Cities

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“There are always those who are willing to surrender local self-government and turn over their affairs to some national authority in exchange for a payment of money out of the Federal Treasury. Whenever they find some abuse needs correction in their neighborhood, instead of applying the remedy themselves they seek to have a tribunal sent on from Washington to discharge their duties for them, regardless of the fact that in accepting such supervision they are bartering away their freedom.”

“I believe that the school must represent present life - life as real and vital to the child as that which he carries on in the home, in the neighborhood, or on the play-ground.”

Believe Children Real Play Home School I Believe Neighborhood Carrie Present Life

Book:The Early Works, 1882-1898: 1895-1898. Early essays

Source: The Early Works, 1882-1898: 1895-1898. Early essays

“What, really, is wanted from a neighborhood? Convenience, certainly, an absence of major aggravation, to be sure. But perhaps mostof all, ideally, what is wanted is a comfortable background, a breathing space of intermission between the intensities of private life and the calculations of public life.”

Wanted Space Comfortable Majors Absence Backgrounds Breathing Neighborhood Intensity Private Life Convenience Calculations Public Life Aggravation Intermission Breathing Space

Book:Familiar territory: observations on American life

Source: Familiar territory: observations on American life

“It is discouraging to try to be a good neighbor in a bad neighborhood.”

Trying Neighbor Neighborhood Discouraging Good Neighbor

Author:William Castle

“One of life's intriguing paradoxes is that hierarchical social order makes cheap rents and outré artists' colonies possible. Raffish bohemian neighborhoods flourished in the days of racial segregation; under integration the artistic poor have no safe places in which to create.... If America lacks a vigorous culture it is partly because studios and ateliers have become crack houses.”

“Really poor children in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working and have nobody around them who works. So they literally have no habit of showing up on Monday. They have no habit of staying all day. They have no habit of 'I do this and you give me cash' unless it's illegal.”

Giving Children Poor Poverty Habit Give Me Staying Neighborhood Illegal Cash Monday Showing Up Poor Children Poor Neighborhoods

Author:Newt Gingrich

“. . .little has changed in our New York neighborhoods except the faces, the names, and the languages spoken. The same decent values of hard work and accomplishment and service to city and nation still exist.”

Littles Stills Hard Faces Values Names Language Nations Cities New York Changed Hard Work Accomplishment Decent Neighborhood Value Of Hard Work

Author:David Dinkins

“Night is a curious child, wandering Between earth and sky, creeping In windows and doors, daubing The entire neighborhood With purple paint.”

Children Earth Night Doors Sky Window Paint Curious Wander Neighborhood Purple Earth And Sky Windows And Doors

Book:Black Moods: Collected Poems

Source: Black Moods: Collected Poems

“The only way we'll have real pride is when we demand recognition of a culture that isn't just sexual. It's all there--all throughhistory we've been there; but we have to claim it, and identify who was in it, and articulate what's in our minds and hearts and all our creative contributions to this earth. And until we do that, and until we organise ourselves block by neighborhood by city by state into a united visible community that fights back, we're doomed.”

Source: The Normal Heart and The Destiny of Me: Two Plays

“what pudor pejorocracy affronts how awe, night-rest and neighborhood can rot what breeds where dirtiness is law what crawls below”

Law Night Shame Awe Neighborhood Dirtiness

Book:Selected Poems of Charles Olson

Source: Selected Poems of Charles Olson

“It was common practice for me to take my children with me whenever I went shopping, out for a walk in a white neighborhood, or just felt like going about in a white world. The reason was simple enough: if a black man is alone or with other black men, he is a threat to whites. But if he is with children, then he is harmless, adorable.”

Ifs Men World Children Reason Enough Felt Black Simple White Walks Common Practice Threat My Children Neighborhood Shopping Adorable

Author:Gerald Early

“The external appearance of any construction projects that are created during the time of the National Socialist Reich must take on the sensibility of our time. Factories are the workplaces of our National Socialist racial comrades. Streets and highways carry the name of the Führer. Settlements today are not isolated communities, but rather parts of greater city-construction plans. Every work site must be properly located within its neighborhood and surrounding setting (i.e., the natural world).”

“I live in a bad neighborhood. Why, I saw two complete strangers share a taxi - yeah, one guy took the radio and the other guy took the tires.”

Two Guy Saws Share Yeah Radio Stranger Neighborhood Tire Other Guys Taxi

Author:Rodney Dangerfield

“I grew up in predominantly black neighborhoods and went to predominantly black schools. And hip-hop is what I grew up listening to in my teenage years. Basically I'm just being myself.”

Years School Black Listening Grew Grew Up Hip Hop Hips Hops Neighborhood Just Being Teenage Being Myself Teenage Years

Author:Mark Wahlberg

“I opposed annexing in areas around our city borders, because I knew that if neighborhoods wanted to be a part of the city, well, they would mandate themselves in and invite themselves into a city. That's just one example of even on a local level how dangerous it is for a politician to start thinking they know more than that individual family, that individual business.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Wells Wanted Individual Levels Cities Dangerous Example Politician Areas Locals Borders Just One Neighborhood Invites Mandates

Author:Sarah Palin

“Everybody knows this legend in kind of African-American lore. There's always somebody in your neighborhood named Orangejello or Lemonjello. And that's spelled - Orangejello is spelled O-R-A-N-G-E-J-E-L-L-O.”

Knows Kind African American Neighborhood Legends

Author:Jordan Peele

“We've been following many forms of democratized ownership, starting with co-ops, land banks at the neighborhood level, municipal ownership and state ownership of banks - there's a whole series of these that attempt to fill the small-scale infrastructure that can build up to a larger theoretical vision.”

States Whole Form Levels Vision Land Series Starting Following Scales Neighborhood Ownership Infrastructure Theoretical

Author:Gar Alperovitz

“Susan Straight finds LA's secret heart in Between Heaven and Here and with a sleight of hand only the masters have, she creates an alley, a neighborhood, a history that is as rich and tragic as any Shakespearean tale.”

Heart Hands Heaven Secret Rich Masters Tales Tragic Neighborhood Alleys Sleight Of Hand

Author:Walter Mosley

“I am not going to use the federal government's authority deliberately to circumvent the natural inclination of people to live in ethnic homogeneous neighborhoods.”

People Use Government Natural Authority Neighborhood Federal Government Inclination Homogeneous

Author:Jimmy Carter

“We're disappointed because you think the neighborhood is safe, it's very quiet here.”

Thinking Quiet Safe Neighborhood Disappointed

Author:Elizabeth Oakes Smith

“Having a lean and hungry look was frowned upon in my Italian neighborhood where a girl was considered too skinny if she could make her knees touch.”

Ifs Looks Body Girl Weight Hungry Knees Neighborhood Italian Skinny

Author:Gina Barreca

“Dimension stone, flint, rubble, burnt or unburnt brick, use them as you find them. For it is not every neighborhood or particular locality that can have a wall built of burnt brick like that at Babylon, where there was plenty of asphalt to take the place of lime and sand, and yet possibly each may be provided with materials of equal usefulness so that out of them a faultless wall may be built to last forever.”

May Use Lasts Forever Particular Materials Wall Equal Built Stones Plenty Dimensions Sand Neighborhood Bricks Usefulness Babylon Rubble Limes Locality Asphalt

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“Trees which grow in places facing the course of the sun are not of porous fiber but are solid, being drained by the dryness... The trees in sunny neighborhoods, therefore, being solidified by the compact texture of their fiber, and not being porous from moisture, are very useful, so far as durability goes, when they are hewn into timber. The lowland firs, being conveyed from sunny places, are better than those highland firs, which are brought here from shady places.”

Courses Grows Sun Tree Neighborhood Texture Sunny Fiber Compact Drained Shady Timber Moisture Durability

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“Just when I most needed important conversation, a sniff of the man-wide world, that is, at least one brainy companion who could translate my friendly language into his tongue of undying carnal love, I was forced to lounge in our neighborhood park, surrounded by children.”

Men World Children Important Language Women Needed Conversation Wide Tongue Parks Neighborhood Friendly Companion Translate

Book:The Collected Stories

Source: The Collected Stories

“A new world of complex relationships and feelings opens up when the peer group takes its place alongside the family as the emotional focus of the child's life. Early peer relationships contribute significantly to the child's ability to participate in a group (and in that sense, society), deal with competition and disappointment, enjoy the intimacy of friendships, and intuitively understand social relationships as they play out at school, in the neighborhood, and later in the workplace and adult family.”

“Earth is a small town with many neighborhoods in a very big universe.”

Bigs Earth Universe Towns Neighborhood Small Town

Author:Ronald J. Garan, Jr.

“You got to look outside- your eyes- you got to think outside- your brain- you got to walk outside- your life- to where the neighborhoods change.”

Thinking Looks Eye Walks Brain Teacher Teaching Neighborhood

Author:Ani DiFranco

“It would not be long ere the whole surface of this country would be channelled for those nerves which are to diffuse, with the speed of thought, a knowledge of all that is occurring throughout the land, making, in fact, one neighborhood of the whole country.”

Long Country Whole Facts Would Be Land Internet Surface Speed Neighborhood Nerves Free Speech

Author:Samuel Morse

“Great powers reserve the right to police bad actors in their neighborhoods.”

Actors Police Neighborhood Reserves Great Power

Author:Thomas P.M. Barnett

“Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.”

Source: Passages from the American Note-books of Nathaniel Hawthorne

“You kids have fun, and be home by Thanksgiving!" our parents would call to us on Halloween night, as we staggered out the front door, weighed down by hundreds of pounds of concealed vandalism supplies, including enough raw eggs to feed Somalia for decades. By morning, thanks to our efforts, the entire neighborhood would be covered with a layer of congealed shaving cream and toilet paper that, around certain unpopular neighbors' homes, was hundreds of feet thick. This is how the Appalachian Mountains were formed.”

“We cannot hope only to leave our children a bigger car, a bigger bank account. We must hope to give them a sense of what it means to be a loyal friend, a loving parent, a citizen who leaves his home, his neighborhood and town better than he found it.”

Giving Mean Children Home Found Parent Car Citizens Accounts Bigger Towns Our Children Neighborhood Loyal Bank Accounts Loyal Friend Loving Parents

Author:George H. W. Bush

“Europe has to secure its borders and support those in the neighborhood who share our values.”

Values Support Share Europe Secure Borders Neighborhood

Author:Herman Van Rompuy

“I honestly believe that in my lifetime we will see a country once again governed by Christians...and Christian values. What Christians have got to do is take back this country, one precinct at a time, one neighborhood at a time, and one state at a time.”

Believe Country States Christian Values Lifetime Honestly Neighborhood Christian Values

Author:Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

“It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood, a beautiful day for a neighbor. Would you be mine; could you be mine?”

Beautiful Mines Neighbor Neighborhood Beautiful Day

Author:Fred Rogers

“I was not addicted to stealing in my youth, nor have ever been; yet such was the confidence of the Negroes in the neighborhood, even at this early period of my life, in my superior judgment, that they would often carry me with them when they were going on any roguery, to plan for them.”

Plans Youth Periods Judgment Stealing Superiors Neighborhood

Book:The Confessions of Nat Turner

Source: The Confessions of Nat Turner

“Alan King, a comedian I adored, was considered society, and I was considered the Jewish kid from the neighborhood.”

Kids Kings Comedian Neighborhood

Author:Don Rickles

“In losing stewardship we lose fellowship; we become outcasts from the great neighborhood of creation.”

Loses Creation Losing Environmental Neighborhood Fellowship Stewardship Outcast Stewards

Author:Wendell Berry

“Poor communities, frequently communities of color but not exclusively, suffer disproportionately. If you look at where our industrialized facilities tend to be located, they're not in the upper middle class neighborhoods.”

Ifs Looks Suffering Community Poor Class Middle Color Environmental Middle Class Neighborhood Pollution Facility Upper Middle Class

Author:Carol Browner

“The only people I am aware of who don't have troubles are gathered in peaceful, little neighborhoods. There is never a care, never a moment of stress and never an obstacle to ruin a day. All is calm. All is serene. Most towns have at least one such worry-free zone. We call them cemeteries.”

People Littles Moments Care Worry Trouble Stress Towns Calm Obstacles Peaceful Ruins Zone Neighborhood Serene Cemetery

Author:Steve Goodier

“I would have never dreamed that my career would be this successful. I grew up in an average home in Barbados, and we didn't live in the best neighborhood. But I was never aware that we were poor; my mom never made us feel that way. She loved me unconditionally. She made us feel anything was possible and instilled in me such confidence.”

Way Feels Made Home Would Be Poor Careers Successful Grew Mom Grew Up Average My Mom Neighborhood Barbados

Author:Rihanna

“My childhood was pretty colorful; I like to use the word turbulent. But it was a great time to grow up, the '70s and '80s in Brooklyn, East Flatbush. It was culturally diverse: You had Italian culture, American culture, the Caribbean West Indian culture, the Hasidic Jewish culture. Everything was kind of like right there in your face. A lot of violence, you know, especially toward the '80s the neighborhood got really violent, but it made me who I am, it made me strong.”

“As a child, I would put on shows in my neighborhood with friends and perform Barbra Streisand songs for my classmates.”

Children Shows Song Neighborhood Classmates Streisand

Author:Patricia Heaton

“I think people are frustrated with dysfunction, not just dysfunction in government, but a lot of dysfunction that surrounds them. I get the frustration with drugs in the neighborhood or my kids with big college loans can't find a job.”

People Thinking Bigs Government Kids Jobs College Drug Frustration Neighborhood Surround Frustrated Loan Dysfunction

Author:John Kasich

“I grew up in a very loving middle class family. My parents were educators. I'm not even the first PhD in my family. They tried to shield me, just as other parents in my neighborhood tried to shield their children. But you knew there was a reason that you couldn't go to that theme park or to a movie theater or to a hamburger stand. They couldn't shield you completely. What they did though was they never let it be an excuse for not achieving, and they always said racism is somebody else's problem, not yours. They tried in that way not to make us bitter about Birmingham.”

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