(430 quotes found)
“We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.”
Dan Quayle
“Don't buy the house, buy the neighborhood.”
Russian Proverb
“I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.”
Dick Gregory
“I came from a real tough neighborhood. I put my hand in some cement and felt another hand.”
Rodney Dangerfield
“When I was a kid, we said that we were precluded from going to certain neighborhoods because of the color of our skin… Now the neighborhoods are the neighborhoods of ideas, you’re not supposed to be there because … of the color of your skin.””
Clarence Thomas
“I don't leave my neighborhood. I don't go anywhere. There are four blocks I live in and there are two coffee shops, one at each end of the block... so I don't do much driving... Some people would say they never see me because I don't go anywhere. I stay in the blue state of Nashville, in my bubble.”
Ben Folds
“I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood.”
Billy Wilder
“I live in a neighborhood so bad that you can get shot while getting shot......”
Chris Rock
“That neighborhood has never been known for racial tensions.”
Robert McCloskey
“I lived in a plenty tough neighborhood. When somebody called me a 'dirty little Guinea', there was only one thing to do-break his head. When I got older, I realized that you shouldn't do it that way. I realized that you've got to do it through education. Children are not to blame. It is the parents. How can a child know whether his playmate is an Italian, a Jew or Irish, unless the parents have discussed it in the privacy of their homes.”
Frank Sinatra
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