Neighborhood Quotes - Page 3

If the "rich" were swarming into poor neighborhoods and beating the poor until they coughed up the dimes they swallowed for safekeeping, yes, this would be a transfer of income from the poor to the rich. But allowing taxpayers to keep more of their money does not qualify as taking it from the poor - unless you believe that the poor have a moral claim to the money other people earn.

Gentrification can be a plague, as it eats up neighborhoods.

This is how you answer a door in my neighborhood. WHO IS IT?

In my old neighborhood, a boy stopped playing when he began to lose his pulse. And then he became the referee.

My father's music gives hope to people and also inspires them to break the bonds of injustice and to be positive in life. I've seen that everywhere I go, especially in poor countries and poor neighborhoods.

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

If you don't visit a bad neighborhood, it might visit you.

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.

The schools that suffer are the schools in, in poor neighborhoods. They are the neighborhoods with the greatest need, with the parents struggling to work and to make ends meet. They don't have enough resources to give, they don't have enough resources to pay more, and these are the neighborhoods that go first.

I wanted it to live in all the diverse neighborhoods I've lived in.

But, when I was about thirteen, I began to sort of sing in my neighborhood.

You want people to feel comfortable to walk in their neighborhoods, go out and shop, do business.

Pascal and Voltaire both probably had IQs in the neighborhood of 200.

Really poor children in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working and have nobody around them who works.

Whining lets the brute know there's a victim for him in the neighborhood!

If I can't run my neighborhood you won't want me in your neighborhood.

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.

I don't live in a fancy neighborhood.

I shook my tambourine the whole time, because it helped me remember that even though I was going through different neighborhoods, I was still me.

Blacks are about seven times more likely to live in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty than whites.

There are neighborhoods in Baghdad where you and I could walk through those neighborhoods today.

Everywhere you go you find readers who are interested, even though the story takes place here in this very neighborhood. It doesn't matter that it takes place locally if the intention to make it universal is there. That's what I strive to do.

Chicago’s neighborhoods have always been the city’s greatest strength.

As I set out to begin photographing Shanghai, I encountered the insider/outsider phenomena in the most personal of ways. You would walk into an old neighborhood in the center of city, and people would begin to point at you. People would begin to talk about you, spreading the word about the outsider who has wandered into their midst, look at him, he's got a camera, what's he doing, is this allowed, is this OK, how should be respond to him.

The American Dream starts with the neighborhoods.