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  • The avenues in my neighborhood are Pride, Covetousness and Lust; the cross streets are Anger, Gluttony, Envy and Sloth. I live over on Sloth, and the style on our street is to avoid the other thoroughfares.

    Anger   Pride   Envy  
  • This is how you answer a door in my neighborhood. WHO IS IT?

    "Saturday Night Live: The Best of Eddie Murphy", www.imdb.com. 1998.
  • Anonymity is a wonderful thing if you can hang on to it. I live in Pasadena where we try to keep the movie people out. We discourage them from moving in our neighborhood and if they do we burn effigies on their lawns.

    Moving   People   Trying  
  • This is essential that we have a resurgence in democratic participation. And I don't mean big-D Democrat, I mean small-D democrat. I mean getting involved in your neighborhood, your community. This is no time to say, "I'm not into politics." This is a time to go headlong into the welfare of this nation.

    Source: www.truth-out.org
  • The police can't stop an intruder, mugger, or stalker from hurting you. They can pursue him only after he has hurt or killed you. Protecting yourself from harm is your responsibility, and you are far less likely to be hurt in a neighborhood of gun-owners than in one of disarmed citizens - even if you don't own a gun yourself.

  • We can make this a more peaceful century if we cherish non-violence and concern for others’ well-being. It is possible. If the individual is happier, his or her family is happier; if families are happy, neighborhoods and nations will be happy. By transforming ourselves we can change our human way of life and make this a century of compassion.

  • You have to be involved in terms of what's happening in your local neighborhood and what issues are there.

    Source: www.realclearpolitics.com
  • Not everyone is your brother or sister in the faith, but everyone is your neighbor, and you must love your neighbor.

    Love   Sister   Faith  
    Timothy Keller (2010). “Generous Justice: How God's Grace Makes Us Just”, p.48, Penguin
  • It is true that I grew up in an affluent neighborhood and went to a prestigious school. But there were horrors that went on behind closed doors.

    School   Doors   Horror  
    "Hawaii, Mortuaries, And Saving Kurt Vonnegut: An Interview With Kirby Wright". Interview with Jane Ormerod, www.greatweatherformedia.com. September 5, 2013.
  • To survive, the people in neighborhoods are going to have to secede.

  • People don't know that New York really is just made up of a group of very small neighborhoods.

  • It turns out - this is a metaphor out of [Charles] Dickens - that the raw sewage emptied into the Anacostia comes from the Federal Triangle. I have a sewer map, and on it you can see the pipe from which congressional wastes empty into the river that then flows through the black neighborhoods of Washington, D.C. It is very expensive to do anything about the river, but somebody's working on it.

    Rivers   Black   Maps  
    "Robert Hass" by Sarah Pollock, www.motherjones.com. March/April 1997.
  • 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.

    Source: www.npr.org
  • I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.

  • I came from a real tough neighborhood. On my street, the kids take hubcaps - from moving cars.

    Funny   Real   Moving  
  • There's gonna be a general lack of toast in the neighborhood this morning.

    Sam Shepard (1997). “Plays”
  • I parked in the tow-away zone, and when I got back, the entire neighborhood was gone.

    Funny   Humor   Gone  
  • 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.

  • I was raised in a Baptist household, went to a Catholic church, lived in a Jewish neighborhood, and had the biggest crush on the Muslim girls from one neighborhood over.

    Crush   Girl   Catholic  
    "Will Smith Interview - I AM LEGEND". Interview with Steve Weintraub, collider.com. December 10, 2007.
  • On that terrible day, a nation became a neighborhood. All Americans became New Yorkers.

    Bad Day   America   Usa  
    "Pataki invokes 9/11 in Bush introduction". www.cnn.com. September 3, 2004.
  • I know that knowledge and intelligence are not the same thing - but they do live in the same neighborhood. I know once again, firsthand, the joy of learning.

    A. J. Jacobs (2004). “The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World”, p.369, Simon and Schuster
  • The rates of soda consumption in our poorest communities cannot be explained by individual consumer preferences alone, but rather are linked to broader issues of access and affordability of healthy foods in low-income neighborhoods, and to the marketing efforts of soda companies themselves.

    "NYC’s SNAP Sugary Beverage Ban Is the Right Idea" by Geoffrey Canada, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 18, 2011.
  • I was sickly as a child and gravitated to books and drawing. During my early teen years, I spent hundreds of hours at my window, sketching neighborhood children at play. I sketched and listened, and those notebooks became the fertile field of my work later on. There is not a book I have written or a picture I have drawn that does not, in some way, owe them its existence.

  • I am happy to have success in the entertainment biz, but the root of my happiness comes from my neighborhood, NYC.

  • That's part of the comedy, too, is we do have jokes throughout of hanging a lantern on the absurdity of the world. Like, when BoJack's flying over the neighborhood, you see some houses have swimming pools in the backyard, and what does that mean? Why would there be a swimming pool underwater? But we thought it was funny.

    Mean   Swimming   House  
    Source: www.hitfix.com
  • In traditional Hindu families like ours, men provided and women were provided for. My father was a patriarch and I a pliant daughter. The neighborhood I'd grown up in was homogeneously Hindu, Bengali-speaking, and middle-class. I didn't expect myself to ever disobey or disappoint my father by setting my own goals and taking charge of my future.

    "American Dreamer" by Bharati Mukherjee, www.motherjones.com. January/February 1997.
  • Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

    George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.2527, e-artnow
  • The solution for rising up kids in the income distributionlies is in creating better childhood environments for kids growing up, especially in low income families. And so what means such things like schools, the quality of neighborhoods. If you think about what's gone on in Baltimore, it's a place of tremendous concentrated poverty. People aren't really seeing a path forward and I think revitalizing places like that can have a huge impact, even in the face of globalization and changes in technology.

    Source: www.pbs.org
  • I cry intermittently, like a summer rain. I don't feel racked by the crying; in fact, it hydrates me. Then rage wells up in me, and I want to take a crowbar to all the cars in the neighborhood.

    Summer   Rain   Car  
    Anne Lamott (1994). “Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year”, Fawcett
  • As far Chicago, our city was designed with racism in mind, with neighborhoods segregated by expressways and train tracks. Even suburbs, like Highland Park, have long histories of barring Jewish and black people. That history that has always existed has come out of the shadows because of the social and political climate.

    Long   Racism   People  
    Source: chicagoist.com
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