#neighborhoods

If you don't visit the bad neighborhoods, the bad neighborhoods are going to visit you. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#going #neighborhoods #visit #you

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

#children #commodities #into #jobs #line

Now it's time to focus on basics for people in our neighborhoods... and real ethics reform at City Hall. ↗

— Laura Miller

#city #city hall #ethics #focus #hall

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

#attended #dad #encouraged #forever #germany

You know, because of the lack of budget, we had to find neighborhoods where time had stopped - kind of stuck in the '50s. And no place had that better than Staten Island. ↗

— Jason Alexander

#better #budget #find #had #island

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

#affect #affected #communities #crossing #grade

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

#being #bland #charismatic #daytime #far

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. ↗

— Robert. L. Ehrlich

#building #building blocks #economic #economic opportunity #every

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

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