#hood

I was born in America but all of my friends' parents, everybody's parents, including my own, had come to America from Europe. Many people in my neighborhood hardly bothered to learn English. ↗

— Christopher Walken

#born #bothered #come #english #europe

Even though Jack Kennedy and I were about the same age and lived in the same neighborhood and attended the same elementary school, our paths seldom crossed during the years he lived in Brookline. I'm sure that in time, I would have gotten to know him better if he hadn't moved away. ↗

— Mike Wallace

#age #attended #away #better #crossed

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

— Mike Wallace

#i #jack #jack kennedy #kennedy #neighborhood

I had a very happy childhood, but I wasn't that happy a child. I liked being alone and creating characters and voices. I think that's when your creativity is developed, when you're young. I liked the world of the imagination because it was an easy place to go to. ↗

— David Walliams

#because #being #being alone #characters #child

The balancing act of motherhood and a career, and being a wife, is something that I don't think I'll ever perfect, but I love the challenge of it. ↗

— Kerri Walsh

#balancing #being #career #challenge #ever

We know that if we can prevent kids from trying drugs in their teenage years, we dramatically reduce the likelihood that they will go on to have problems later in life. ↗

— John Walters

#go #kids #know #later #life

Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me. ↗

— Ethel Waters

#childhood #drinking #greatest #influence #lust

In my wildest imagination, I never thought that the fifth of six children born to Helen and Buddy Watts - in a poor black neighborhood, in the poor rural community of Eufaula, Oklahoma - would someday be called Congressman. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#born #buddy #called #children #community

Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves. ↗

— Daniel Webster

#disagree #falsehoods #only #quarrel #themselves

It's a nice neighborhood, like the one I left. My home borough is Brooklyn and Queens. ↗

— Anthony Weiner

#home #i #left #like #neighborhood