Best towns & neighborhood Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Even the worst neighborhood of Heaven will be better than the best neighborhood of the fanciest town on Earth!”

Earth Heaven Worst Towns Heavenly Neighborhood

“Agriculture seems to be the first pursuit of civilized man. It enables him to escape from the life of the savage, and wandering shepherd, into that of social man, gathered into fixed communities and surrounding himself with the comforts and blessings of neighborhood, country, and home. It is agriculture alone, that fixes men in stationary dwellings, in villages, in towns, and cities, and enables the work of civilizations, in all its branches, to go on.”

“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.

“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

“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 feel so lucky that my high school was right in the middle of Denver, which is one of those sort of segregated towns, with black and white and Hispanic neighborhoods. But the school I went to was right in the middle of the whole thing.”

Feels Whole School Black White Middle Lucky High School Towns Neighborhood Black And White Hispanic So Lucky Denver

Author:Bill Frisell

“Long Island - if you're from out of town, how would I describe it? Well, every girl in my neighborhood looked like Kenny G.”

Ifs Wells Long Girl Towns Islands Neighborhood Every Girl Long Island Kenny

Author:Carol Leifer

“The street in the center of town was Butts road. I stole the sign and told the audience, this must be where the assholes live. I also had a Neighborhood Crime Watch - it takes about 20 seconds to break into a house but it took me an hour to unbolt this sign.”

House Hours Watches Break Audience Streets Crime Towns Neighborhood Seconds

Author:Carrot Top

“Those type of people [in New Orleans] keep me happy and just smiling, you know? I just go hang out and talk with them and they tell me all types of old stories, and sometimes I might even pull my horn out in the middle of the block, and they're playing on beer bottles and different things, and we just do a little second line type thing, just us, four or five people, who are just having fun. That makes me day to be able to do that and go hang out with the people in the (Treme) neighborhood, and to do some shows around town, you know?”

“When you have a small town where all of a sudden there's 3,000 black people living in a neighborhood where there were never black people before, that's a dramatic change. I'm not sure how much the people in the north are acknowledging that this is a permanent phenomenon, that it is going to change the social fabric.”

People Social Black Towns Permanent Dramatic Not Sure Neighborhood Phenomenon Black People Fabric Small Town Dramatic Change

Author:Jonas Carpignano

“I lived in a little working-class town that had no black neighborhoods at all - one high school. We all played together. Everybody was either somebody from the South or an immigrant from East Europe or from Mexico. And there was one church, and there were four elementary schools. And we were all, pretty much until the end of the war, very, very poor.”

Littles War Ends School Together Black Church Poor Class Four High School Europe Towns South East Neighborhood Immigrants Mexico Working Class Elementary School

Author:Toni Morrison

“We could do some household and neighborhood or town wind energy. But even this will run up eventually against the problem of needing an underlying fossil fuel economy to fabricate the hardware. Same with photovoltaic (solar) energy. We're going to be disappointed by what these things can do for us.”

Problem Running Energy Can Do Economy Wind Towns Fuel Neighborhood Disappointed Household Fossils Fossil Fuel Hardware Solar Energy Fabricate Wind Energy Fuel Economy

Author:James Howard Kunstler

“All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it.”

Home Reality Reading Grows Born Family Growing Up Particular Towns Neighborhood Small Town Clans

Author:Chaim Potok

“Now we Democrats believe that America is still the country of fair play, that we can come out of a small town or a poor neighborhood and have the same chance as anyone else, and it doesn't matter whether we are black or Hispanic, or disabled or women.”

Believe Stills Country Matter Play America Black Chance Poor Fairs Towns Democrat Neighborhood Small Town Disabled Hispanic Fair Play Poor Neighborhoods

Author:Ann Richards

“Neighborhood is a word that has come to sound like a Valentine. As a sentimental concept, 'neighborhood' is harmful to city planning. It leads to attempts at warping city life into imitations of town or suburban life. Sentimentality plays with sweet intentions in place of good sense.”

Play Sound Cities Sweet Concepts Towns Intention Planning Neighborhood Imitation Sentimental Valentine Good Sense Sentimentality City Life City Planning

Book:The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Source: The Death and Life of Great American Cities

“And after I dropped him off, I took the longest possible route home... I explored alleys and hidden roads I never knew existed. I discovered neighborhoods entirely new to me. And finally... I discovered I was sick of this town and everything in it.”

Home Sick Towns Neighborhood Routes Alleys

Book:Thirteen Reasons Why

Source: Thirteen Reasons Why

“It's not what you get out of life that counts. Break your mirrors! In our society that is so self-absorbed, begin to look less at yourself and more at each other. you'll get more satisfaction from having improved your neighborhood, your town, your state, your country, and your fellow human beings than you'll ever get from your muscles, your figure, your automobile, your house, or your credit rating.”

Source: Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story

“Each of the Iraqi children killed by the United States was our child. Each of the prisoners tortured in Abu Ghraib was our comrade. Each of their screams was ours. When they were humiliated, we were humiliated. The U.S. soldiers fighting in Iraq - mostly volunteers in a poverty draft from small towns and poor urban neighborhoods - are victims just as much as the Iraqis of the same horrendous process, which asks them to die for a victory that will never be theirs.”

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