Quotes with neighborhood

  • The poor suffer twice at the rioter's hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment.
  • Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000.

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  • Bessie Smith There's nineteen men livin' in my neighborhood, Eighteen of them are fools and the one ain't no doggone good.
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  • Carroll Quigley A community is made up of intimate relationships among diversified types of individuals--a kinship group, a local group, a neighborhood, a village, a large family.
    Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976)
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • John Ciardi A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.
    John Ciardi
    American teacher, poet, writer (1916 - 1986)
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  • Murray Kempton A neighborhood is where, when you go out of it, you get beat up.
    Murray Kempton
    American journalist
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  • Edith Wharton Almost everybody in the neighborhood had ''troubles,'' frankly localized and specified; but only the chosen had ''complications.'' To have them was in itself a distinction, though it was also, in most cases, a death warrant. People struggled on for years wit
    Edith Wharton
    American Author (1862 - 1937)
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  • Buzz Aldrin Anything we can do in the near future that begins to stimulate the interest of people - seeing somebody down the street have an opportunity to go into space - buoys up the whole neighborhood.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Lois Horowitz Books in a large university library system: 2, 000,000. Books in an average large city library: 1 0,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30, 000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20, 000.
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  • Anthony Burgess Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000.
    Anthony Burgess
    British writer, criticus (1917 - 1993)
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  • Bonnie Hunt Chicago has definitely played a part in my character development. I love the essence of the city, the personalities of the people, the hard-working spirit that you need to get through the winters. And every neighborhood has its great restaurants and the local hot-dog stand.
    Bonnie Hunt
    American actress, comedian, director and producer (1961 - )
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  • Bob Beauprez 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!
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Jane Austen Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Ben Bernanke High levels of homeownership have been shown to foster greater involvement in school and civic organizations, higher graduation rates, and greater neighborhood stability.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Brad Feld In 2013, when Google announced that Kansas City would be the first city in the country to have Google Fiber, I bought a house in the first neighborhood that was being wired up with Google's gigabit Internet.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Bonnie Hunt In my neighborhood growing up, 8, 10,12 kids were the norm. Those stay-at-home moms would handle so much physically and emotionally. Even in my early teens, I could tell those ladies were something.
    Bonnie Hunt
    American actress, comedian, director and producer (1961 - )
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  • Anthony Weiner It's a nice neighborhood, like the one I left. My home borough is Brooklyn and Queens.
    Anthony Weiner
    American politician (1964 - )
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  • Ben Bernanke Many foreclosed homes are neglected or abandoned, as legal proceedings or other factors delay their resale. Deteriorating or vacant properties can, in turn, directly affect the quality of life in a neighborhood, for example, by leading to increases in vandalism or crime.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Buffalo Bill My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.
    The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill, the Famous Hunter, Scout, and Guide: An Autobiography (1978 edition), U of Nebraska Press
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Robert Alan Sometimes just a smile on our face can help to make this world a better place. Stand up for the things that are right. Try to talk things out instead of fight. Lend a hand when you can, get involved this is good. You can help to make a difference in your neighborhood.
    Robert Alan
    American singer/songwriter and comic book creator (1971 - )
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  • Lyndon B. Johnson The poor suffer twice at the rioter's hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment.
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    American president (1908 - 1973)
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  • Lyndon B. Johnson The world has narrowed to a neighborhood before it has broadened to a brotherhood.
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    American president (1908 - 1973)
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