#neighborhood

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

— Ruben Blades

#began #i #neighborhood #sing #sort

I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#city #enjoy #feel #great #great city

Violence is a problem we all want to solve. I want to make sure that kids learn to deal with anger by learning how to talk with people to solve problems. Here in the United States Senate I want to make sure we have safe schools, safe neighborhoods and good things for kids to do after school! ↗

— Patty Murray

#anger #deal #good #good things #here

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

#becomes #between #city #divided #downtown

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

#bringing #eyes #foot #generating #improving

In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her? ↗

— Jessamyn West

#her #man #measured #my soul #my time

Before I started LimoLand, I mainly bought my clothes in Harlem, where I found clothing my size in fun colors. I still like to go there and see the vibrancy and colors of the neighborhood. I am also very influenced by the colors of my contemporary African and Japanese art collections. ↗

— Jean Pigozzi

#also #am #art #before #bought

My dad was a homicide cop in the gay neighborhood in the city when gay neighborhoods were desperate, depressing, sad places run by the mob. The only gay people he'd met when I came out to him were corpses. ↗

— Dan Savage

#city #cop #corpses #dad #depressing

You want people to feel comfortable to walk in their neighborhoods, go out and shop, do business. ↗

— Rick Scott

#comfortable #feel #go #neighborhoods #out

Really, I think that going out and playing with your friends is kind of becoming a lost art, with the kids in the neighborhood. ↗

— Frank Shorter

#becoming #friends #going #i #i think