#neighborhood

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

— Beverly Cleary

#books #child #growing #growing up #i

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

— JoJo

#brown #ella #ella fitzgerald #fitzgerald #girl

I was the only white kid in my neighborhood for most of my youth even in high school, so reverse racism was just as apparent as racism. ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

#even #high #high school #i #just

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

From my old neighborhood, I learned nothing was guaranteed, not even life itself. You better get it today, because tomorrow is not promised. ↗

— Junior Seau

#better #even #get #guaranteed #i

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

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

#announce #boston #committee #convention #fund

We must do more to protect our neighborhoods and give integrity to our community plans. ↗

— Alan Autry

#give #integrity #more #must #neighborhoods

I grew up in a racially mixed neighborhood. So going over to friends' houses for dinner, their parents listened to Al Green and Luther Ingram. It was something that hit me early on, the feeling that came across. ↗

— Justin Townes Earle

#al #came #dinner #early #feeling