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I came from a tough neighborhood. I used to be a 'dirty Greek.'

Quotes by Telly Savalas

I was born in Detroit, in an all black neighborhood.

Quotes by Steven Seagal

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

Quotes by Ruben Blades

Gangsters lived in the neighborhood. They weren't apart from it. Their relationships with people were both benevolent and scary.

Quotes by Ruby Dee

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

Quotes by Robert Lansing

I used to live in the Bronx, then I lived uptown on 106th St. and Broadway, and finally I moved to Harlem right before it became gentrified. I lived on 120th St. between Fifth and Lenox Aves. in a little brownstone. I knew the neighborhood was changing when they started putting trees in the middle of the block.

Quotes by Regina Hall

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

Quotes by Paul Engle

You had to be tough to survive in my neighborhood.

Quotes by Patty Smyth

Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Noble Booksellers.

Quotes by Pat Brown

Jack Kennedy was one year older than I was, and we attended the same neighborhood school.

Quotes by Mike Wallace

The refurbishing and rebuilding of Fenway Park since 2001 has created a new urban neighborhood in Boston.

Quotes by Mike Barnicle

I made tons of stop motion films with my friends in my neighborhood.

Quotes by Michael Giacchino

I saw all those great '70s films when I was 9, and no one in my Brooklyn neighborhood cared if a kid watched an R movie.

Quotes by Michael De Luca

When I was growing up, I lived in a neighborhood that was largely Latino and I thought I was Latino!

Quotes by Meagan Good

As a post-Holocaust kid, growing up in a neighborhood with a lot of Jewish refugees, I had got the idea there were no Jews left in Europe. But I found in my European wanderings that many of them had gone back and rebuilt their lives.

Quotes by Mark Kurlansky

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

Quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson

I feel like I made it already, because I got already what everybody on the corners of the neighborhood I grew up in is striving to get.

Quotes by Lloyd Banks

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.

Quotes by Kitty Kelley

Well, I grew up in a tough neighborhood.

Quotes by Kent McCord

When I was younger, I was one of the few girls in the neighborhood who could break dance. That's kind of my local, ghetto-celebrity claim to fame.

Quotes by Joy Bryant

Wealthy men, too, like several of those in our neighborhood, had so many slaves that they were compelled to buy other plantations on which to employ them.

Quotes by John Sergeant Wise

I grew up in a nice neighborhood in Greensboro, N.C., which is not too big, but definitely not a small town.

Quotes by John Isner

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

Quotes by John Ciardi

I grew up in a working class neighborhood in Sweden, which, during my teens, gentrified and is now completely middle class and even upper middle class.

Quotes by Joel Kinnaman

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

Jane Austen

Amazon's been around for 24 years, and now they're doing what any 24-year-old does: move to New York and gentrify a neighborhood.

Quotes by Jaboukie Young-White

What is a Muslim neighborhood? How many Muslims have to be in a neighborhood before it becomes worthy of checking papers and kicking in the doors of homes and businesses?

Quotes by Ibrahim Hooper

I was, somewhere in the neighborhood of about 300 jumps.

Quotes by Hugh Shelton

My job in Congress is to identify projects with federal or some other public component and then to push developers to provide employment opportunities to neighborhood residents.

Quotes by Hakeem Jeffries

On that terrible day, a nation became a neighborhood. All Americans became New Yorkers.

Quotes by George Pataki

When I was growing up, I did go to the arcade. We had a neighborhood arcade, and my friends and I would go fairly regularly.

Quotes by Gene Luen Yang

You can take the guy out of the neighorhood but you can't take the neighborhood out of the guy.

Quotes by Frankie Valli

In Hoboken, when I was a kid, I lived in a plenty tough neighborhood.

Quotes by Frank Sinatra

You have to understand - I come from a neighborhood where 'The Wire' was filmed.

Quotes by Elijah Cummings

I grew up kind of a tomboy and I used to fight with all the neighborhood boys.

Quotes by Edie Falco

In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.

Quotes by Ed Koch

I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.

Quotes by Dick Gregory

815 is the neighborhood I was born and raised in; 815 Harrison Square is the exact name. It's in Gainesville, Georgia.

Quotes by Deshaun Watson

I was born in a neighborhood called the Third Ward.

Quotes by DeAndre Jordan

I was the freak who moved into the nice neighborhood.

Quotes by Davey Havok

I grew up in a very racially integrated place called Pottstown. It was an agricultural / industrial town which has since become a suburb of Philadelphia. I grew up basically in a black neighborhood.

Quotes by Daryl Hall

I grew up in the neighborhood where Eric Garner died. No one knows that about me.

Quotes by Dan Donovan

I lived in an all-black neighborhood, followed by an all-white one, and other kids in the always called me Mexican in both neighborhoods.

Quotes by Cheech Marin

I grew up in a neighborhood with blacks and Puerto Ricans and Italians, the whole gamut, so conveying unity has always meant a lot to me.

Quotes by Carmine Giovinazzo

I grew up in the hood in Miami in a poor neighborhood.

Quotes by Carl Hart

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

Quotes by Buffalo Bill

I grew up in a slum neighborhood - rows of tenements, with stoops, and kids all over the street. It was a real neighborhood - we played kick-the-can and ring-a-levio.

Quotes by Bonnie Bedelia

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!

Quotes by Bob Beauprez

I grew up in the neighborhood where 'Rocky' came from.

Quotes by Black Thought

I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.

Quotes by Beverly Cleary

Everybody is happier living in a mixed-income neighborhood.

Quotes by Betsy Hodges

As a teenager, there was a young girl in my neighborhood that I ended up falling for.

Quotes by Benny Cassette

High levels of homeownership have been shown to foster greater involvement in school and civic organizations, higher graduation rates, and greater neighborhood stability.

Quotes by Ben Bernanke

I'm very confident about my ability to earn votes in every neighborhood.

Quotes by Ayanna Pressley

Neighborhood restaurants matter.

Quotes by Ayanna Pressley

If everyone invested in the neighborhood they lived in, the United States would be a magical place.

Quotes by Anthony Mackie

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.

Quotes by Anthony Burgess

I grew up in an inner city neighborhood called the Benson Hurst section of Brooklyn, which was a very embracing, warm, family-type neighborhood.

Quotes by Anthony Fauci

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

Quotes by Andre Balazs

I grew up in a pretty tough neighborhood.

Quotes by Alicia Keys

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

Quotes by Ada Yonath

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