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Neighborhoods and communities are complex organisms that will be resilient only if they are healthy along a number of interrelated dimensions, much as a human body cannot be healthy without adequate air, water, rest, and food. -- Ben Bernanke
Our cities with their swollen populations and cliff dwelling high-rise buildings are breeding places for loneliness. Neighborhoods crumble under the housing development bulldozers and families scatter in pursuit of jobs and professions everywhere. In a world of wheels, old and comfortable groupings of people have disappeared. -- Allan Fromme
Livable neighborhoods with a vibrant street life will stimulate our economic life as well. -- Gavin Newsom
If you don't visit the bad neighborhoods, the bad neighborhoods are going to visit you. -- Thomas Friedman
We must do more to protect our neighborhoods and give integrity to our community plans. -- Alan Autry
In neighborhoods without a usable park or playground, the incidence of childhood obesity increases by 29 percent. -- Darell Hammond
I want to take Negroes out of the ghetto and put them in good neighborhoods in good houses. -- Malcolm X
In some neighborhoods, if you want to walk down the streets, you've got two choices - look down, or look hard. -- Andrew Vachss
Just growing up in Pittsburgh and knowing different neighborhoods, having family there and just loving it, it's like no other place. -- Wiz Khalifa
Those who devote their lives to serving our country, children, and neighborhoods are giving back. They have answered the call to serve. -- Jennifer Granholm
Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods. -- George W. Bush
Every Maryland family wants financial security, schools that work, quality healthcare, safer neighborhoods, and ever-expanding economic opportunity. These are the building blocks of a superior quality of life. -- Bob Ehrlich
In black neighborhoods, everybody appreciated comedy about real life. In the white community, fantasy was funnier. I started looking for the jokes that were equally hilarious across the board, for totally different reasons. -- Will Smith
Real people do real things. A collective of a whole bunch of people who do things in their own locale, in their own neighborhoods - the sum is bigger than the parts, and the parts will grow. -- Chuck D
I wrote about real people and real circumstances and real neighborhoods. There was no crypt or castles or H.P. Lovecraft-type environments. They were just about normal people who had something bizarre happening to them in the neighborhood. -- Richard Matheson
The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving public safety by generating more foot traffic and more eyes on the street. -- Gavin Newsom
I think it's evident that expensive neighborhoods in Seattle are surrounded by natural beauty. That elevates city life. So if we can make cities more attractive in the long run, we can be smarter about issues like development, zoning and economics. -- Stone Gossard
I grew up within Italian-American neighborhoods, everybody was coming into the house all the time, kids running around, that sort of stuff, so when I finally got into my own area, so to speak, to make films, I still carried on. -- Martin Scorsese
Detroit is a city that really stands out. It's been through a very difficult time. There's been a lot of pain here, and the city, physically, has suffered. You can see it in certain neighborhoods, and there's buildings downtown that have been abandoned. -- Michael Imperioli
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. -- Geoffrey Canada
Many churches of all persuasions are hiring research agencies to poll neighborhoods, asking what kind of church they prefer. Then the local churches design themselves to fit the desires of the people. True faith in God that demands selflessness is being replaced by trendy religion that serves the selfish. -- Billy Graham
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St. Louis has a lot of weird food customs that you don't see other places - and a lot of great ethnic neighborhoods. There's a German neighborhood. A great old school Italian neighborhood, with toasted ravioli, which seems to be a St. Louis tradition. And they love provolone cheese in St. Louis. -- Andy Cohen
There's no reason why children in inner cities or rural areas do not receive the same quality education or opportunities as those in suburbs or wealthy neighborhoods. If we truly believe in giving all citizens a chance to pursue happiness and pursue their goals, then we cannot continue to marginalize entire groups of people. -- Al Sharpton
I grew up in one of the most socially conservative neighborhoods in Ohio, and my parents were traditional Catholics. But in her old age, my mother got her home health care from a guy who was gay, who was wonderful to her. Before she died, she rode a float in the Cincinnati Gay Pride Parade. -- Gail Collins
During my eleven years as a New York City public school teacher, I saw firsthand the impact that poverty has on the classroom. In low-income neighborhoods like Sunset Park, where I taught, students as young as five years old enter school affected by the stresses often created by poverty: domestic violence, drug abuse, gang activity. -- Sal Albanese
For me, growing up in a ridiculously poor family living in dead-end neighborhoods, Superman was a deeply personal icon, one that said you can do anything if you put your mind to it. What he stood for formed the core of who I wanted to be as I grew up, and informed how I view the world and my responsibilities to other people. -- J. Michael Straczynski
You can go into neighborhoods in the United States where people dress a certain way because they don't want to be out of touch, where boys wear pants down to their knees, which nobody has compelled them to do but they pick up the cultural norms, or where girls are improperly dressed by my eyes, but that's what they see in the media. -- Hillary Clinton
I came from a real tough neighborhood. Why, every time I shut the window I hurt somebody's fingers. -- Rodney Dangerfield
This red-fading-into-brown defines Queens for me; it is quiet and melancholy and postsuccessful, vaguely British in its disposition. -- Gary Shteyngart
The summer night was settling upon the neighborhood like a dark lace veil, casting dappled shadows on the roofs and sidewalks and lawns. -- Victoria Kahler
I came from a real tough neighborhood. Once a guy pulled a knife on me. I knew he wasn't a professional, the knife had butter on it. -- Rodney Dangerfield
Neighborhood is a word that has come to sound like a Valentine. As a sentimental concept, 'neighborhood' is harmful to city planning. It leads to attempts at warping city life into imitations of town or suburban life. Sentimentality plays with sweet intentions in place of good sense. -- Jane Jacobs
The American Dream starts with the neighborhoods. -- Harvey Milk
In some neighborhoods, faces mature faster than bodies. -- Brandon Stanton
Chicago's neighborhoods have always been the city's greatest strength. -- Jane Byrne
Chicago's neighborhoods have always been this city's greatest strength. -- Jane Byrne
In Chicago, integrated neighborhoods do not stay integrated for long. -- Bill Dedman
We lost the connection between the entertainment world and the neighborhoods. -- Rakim
We need to preserve our neighborhoods, our small business, our local economy. -- Maria Semple
Great powers reserve the right to police bad actors in their neighborhoods. -- Thomas P.M. Barnett
To survive, the people in neighborhoods are going to have to secede. -- Karl Hess
Earth is a small town with many neighborhoods in a very big universe. -- Ronald J. Garan, Jr.
If we wish to rebuild our cities, we must first rebuild our neighborhoods. -- Harvey Milk
Bookstores are lonely forts, spilling light onto the sidewalk. They civilize their neighborhoods. -- John Updike
We don't want bookstores to die. Authors need them, and so do neighborhoods. -- Roy Blount, Jr.
Earth is a small town with many neighborhoods in a very big universe. -- Ronald J. Garan, Jr.
I wanted it to live in all the diverse neighborhoods I've lived in. -- Sho Baraka
Hopefully the rappers can start to open the eyes in the neighborhoods and communities. -- Rakim
I don't know any neighborhoods where everyone's walking around in seven-inch heels and perfect makeup. -- Melissa McCarthy
There are neighborhoods in Baghdad where you and I could walk through those neighborhoods today. -- John McCain
Blacks are about seven times more likely to live in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty than whites. -- John A. Powell
Blacks are about seven times more likely to live in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty than whites. -- John A. Powell
I am always drawn back to places where I have lived, the houses and their neighborhoods. -- Truman Capote
My favorite thing to do is put my headphones on and cruise around the old neighborhoods. -- Mark Duplass
As spirits roam the neighborhoods at night, Let loose upon the Earth till it be light... -- Nick Gordon
You want people to feel comfortable to walk in their neighborhoods, go out and shop, do business. -- Rick Scott
The best real-estate investments with the highest yields are in working-class neighborhoods, because fancy properties are overpriced. -- Jane Bryant Quinn
People don't know that New York really is just made up of a group of very small neighborhoods. -- Ann Richards
Just as important as our society as a whole are our small communities: our neighborhoods, workplaces and schools. -- Jens Stoltenberg
Now it's time to focus on basics for people in our neighborhoods... and real ethics reform at City Hall. -- Laura Miller
Poor children in Baltimore face even worse odds than low-income kids elsewhere, mostly because they remain in impoverished neighborhoods. -- Gwen Ifill
Let's also add, no one should disagree about respecting the rights of young men who live in those neighborhoods. -- Hillary Clinton
Really poor children in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working and have nobody around them who works, -- Newt Gingrich
I love the Latin neighborhoods in Los Angeles. It's like traveling all over Latin America without ever leaving LA. -- Mauricio Cienfuegos
Kindness is the connection that links us all together and strengthens the bonds within our communities, neighborhoods, and families. -- Rosalynn Carter
Groups that work in black neighborhoods around the country have contended that much of subprime lending is 'predatory lending.' -- Bill Dedman
I had lived in New York since 1996, sometimes in the worst neighborhoods, without even locking my door half the time. -- Christopher Bollen
Imagine what our real neighborhoods would be like if each of us offered . . . just one kind word to another person. -- Fred Rogers
For my part, I plan to work out a fair and adequate redistribution of city services to all city neighborhoods. -- Jane Byrne
But as important as the job to be done by government in the neighborhoods, the people must also be involved. -- Jane Byrne
I believe a politics of place emerges where we are deeply accountable to our communities, to our neighborhoods, to our home. -- Terry Tempest Williams
People who live in SoHo want to be close to the energy, culture, and eccentricities of New York's most charming neighborhoods. -- Jared Kushner
It is disgraceful that people are being barred from neighborhoods and clubs on a basis that would have barred Jesus Himself. -- James Pike
I worried about playing God (in the movie Oh God). We're about the same age, but we grew up in different neighborhoods. -- George Burns
There is plenty to do, for each one of us, working on our own hearts, changing our own attitudes, in our own neighborhoods. -- Dorothy Day
I see far stronger and more charismatic personalities strolling around Philadelphia's neighborhoods than are being featured in most of today's bland daytime soaps. -- Camille Paglia
Studies show that recipients of Section 8 vouchers have tended to choose moderately poor neighborhoods that were already on the decline, not low-poverty neighborhoods. -- Hanna Rosin
Tonight, I am pleased to announce that I have secured $1 million from the Convention Host Committee to fund the beautification of Boston's neighborhoods. -- Thomas Menino
I was raised to believe that we all have a civic duty and a responsibility as Americans to improve our neighborhoods and our nation. -- Paul Cook
Nobody cared about the riot until they thought it might spill into their nice neighborhoods. Then they got scared and called the National Guard. -- Snoop Dogg
I am not going to use the federal government's authority deliberately to circumvent the natural inclination of people to live in ethnic homogeneous neighborhoods. -- Jimmy Carter
Communities and neighborhoods are affected. Idling trains, traffic backups, grade crossing accidents and other safety issues all affect the quality of life in our neighborhoods. -- Bill Lipinski
Children are not simply commodities to be herded into line and trained for the jobs that white people who live in segregated neighborhoods have available. -- Jonathan Kozol
Of neighborhoods, benevolence is the most beautiful. How can the man be considered wise who when he had the choice does not settle in benevolence. -- Confucius
I represented women with unplanned pregnancies from age 14 to 40, and they range from living in their car to living in the nicest neighborhoods in town. -- Ann McLane Kuster
I shook my tambourine the whole time, because it helped me remember that even though I was going through different neighborhoods, I was still me. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
Pop and metal aren't friends. Each knows exactly where the other lives and tries to keep its distance. They choose different streets, neighborhoods, zip codes. -- Dave Mustaine
All of the factors that make up a quality city - safe streets, high paying jobs, strong neighborhoods, etc. - emanate from a strong educational premise. -- Alan Autry
Most of the mosques were built in our cities in recent years because Turkish citizens in those neighborhoods feel a growing need for places to pray. -- Wolfgang Schauble
Sometimes, when you grow up in one of these poverty-stricken neighborhoods where the educational system isn't the best, you don't realize that you have any choices. -- Keke Palmer
This is a vision Kaufman and Broad shares with Henry Cisneros, and together we have the resources and expertise to make vital new neighborhoods a reality. -- Bruce Karatz
You got to look outside- your eyes- you got to think outside- your brain- you got to walk outside- your life- to where the neighborhoods change. -- Ani DiFranco
Local churches are ten times more segregated than the neighborhoods they are in and they are twenty times more segregated than the schools than the nearby schools. -- Derwin L. Gray
How about Burma, Somalia, Afghanistan, Libya, our streets, our neighborhoods, our own minds. We don't have to look far - and we should look far as well. -- Joan Halifax
In Paris, where I live, the inner neighborhoods are only available to the white elite. The poor and dispossessed are shuffled out to suburbs and never seen. -- Janine di Giovanni
ETHNOMAGNETISM: The tendency of young people to live in emotionally demonstrative, more unrestrained ethnic neighborhoods: 'You wouldn't understand it there, mother-they hug where I live now.' -- Douglas Coupland
And not go to things that sound good that really did not have the kind of impact that we would want. Who disagrees with keeping neighborhoods safe? -- Hillary Clinton
Chicago is a city of neighborhoods, and I love that. It's cool to have different foods from all over the world within a stone's throw of my house. -- Rick Bayless
Travel is the only context in which some people ever look around. If we spent half the energy looking at our own neighborhoods, we'd probably learn twice as much. -- Lucy R. Lippard
I'm from my hood, and everybody knows me in my neighborhood, and that's cool, I can do what I want over there, but in other people's neighborhoods, I can't. -- Danny Brown
Hydrogen is the most common element in the universe, and has the potential to become an inexpensive source of energy for neighborhoods, light and heavy duty vehicles, and industry. -- Charlie Dent
I coach church planters to look at the ethnic diversity of schools and neighborhoods they are near. This will be an indicator how ethnically diverse their congregation can become. -- Derwin L. Gray
The architecture per se isn't at fault. The more important factor, in my view, is the political neglect of these areas, which have essentially been cut off from other neighborhoods. -- Rem Koolhaas
San Francisco can no longer afford to be a city divided between downtown and neighborhoods, with a downtown that becomes a ghost town when workers go home for the evening -- Gavin Newsom
San Francisco can no longer afford to be a city divided between downtown and neighborhoods, with a downtown that becomes a ghost town when workers go home for the evening. -- Gavin Newsom
There is real value in these local congregations. For me, a lot of it is the value of the sacraments we share. In neighborhoods like ours, the churches provide stability. -- Shane Claiborne
So you need an alarm system because you gonna be in bad neighborhoods?""Actually, I sort of stole a car, and I'm afraid the owner will try to get it back. -- Janet Evanovich
Mardi Gras is the love of life. It is the harmonic convergence of our food, our music, our creativity, our eccentricity, our neighborhoods, and our joy of living. All at once. -- Chris Rose
I can't wait to join you in the joy of welcoming neighbors back into neighborhoods, and small businesses up and running, and cutting those ribbons that somebody is creating new jobs. -- George W. Bush
We can't do much about ensuring that the homeland is safe if our local police and sheriffs' departments don't have the personnel they need to keep our streets and neighborhoods secure. -- Dick Durbin
I grew up in predominantly black neighborhoods and went to predominantly black schools. And hip-hop is what I grew up listening to in my teenage years. Basically I'm just being myself. -- Mark Wahlberg
Poor communities, frequently communities of color but not exclusively, suffer disproportionately. If you look at where our industrialized facilities tend to be located, they're not in the upper middle class neighborhoods. -- Carol Browner
There are places in America that have not just protected middle-class neighborhoods but reduced homelessness. Even places like Houston have been able to reduce homelessness among veterans. It's a pretty shameful situation. -- Cleve Jones
I don't know of any other city where you can walk through so many culturally diverse neighborhoods, and you're never out of sight of the wild hills. Nature is very close here. -- Gary Snyder
I'm not a nice girl; I'm a photographer. (On being told by a Federal Art Project official, after she photographed the Bowery, that a nice girl should not go into such neighborhoods ) -- Berenice Abbott
If you live in poor neighborhoods - I know from living in several poor neighborhoods - the worst supermarkets in the city are in the poorest neighborhoods, where people don't have cars. -- Sandra Cisneros
We need to take responsibility and educate people. That's why black folks don't like me. I always say it's our responsibility to make safe neighborhoods. It's our job to get them cleaned up. -- Charles Evers
But what we found in the study is that churches are ten times less diverse than the neighborhoods they sit in. So there's something more going on than just reflecting the neighborhood, yeah. -- Michael Emerson
Having a dad in the service was helpful. I was forever meeting new kids, going to new schools, moving to new neighborhoods. I was encouraged when I attended the American School in Germany. -- Marcia Gay Harden

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