Quotes Tagged "neighborhood"

If there is any society where the leaders lack the knowledge and the importance of justice, then oppression will be a common neighbor of the citizens.

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

Colorado's collective shale deposits contain somewhere in the neighborhood of 1 trillion barrels of oil. That's almost as much as the entire world's proven oil reserves!

We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.

I grew up in a predominantly Caucasian neighborhood, but my mom is Filipino-Spanish and my dad is Irish.

I came from a real tough neighborhood. I put my hand in some cement and felt another hand.

I wanted to be that cranky old guy that stands on his porch and yells at the neighborhood kids.

I was raised in a mostly white neighborhood. I was this little white girl jamming out to Ella Fitzgerald and Bobby Brown.

My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.

You come to know the aches and vanities and tastes and intrigues of an entire neighborhood at a drug store.

Soho is a gritty former mercantile area that has, of course, evolved into the most bourgeois neighborhood in New York.

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

My neighborhood didn't really encourage women, though it didn't prevent women from progressing, either.

A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.