#neighborhood

I grew up in a modest neighborhood just outside of Los Angeles. It was an industrial community of blue-collar, working people... some of the hardest-working people I've ever met. ↗

— Hilda Solis

#blue-collar #community #ever #grew #i

Republicans have called for a National African-American Museum. The plan is being held up by finding a location that isn't in their neighborhood. ↗

— Conan O'Brien

#being #called #finding #held #location

Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#class family #edge #family #fire #give

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

I feel like I made it already, because I got already what everybody on the corners of the neighborhood I grew up in is striving to get. ↗

— Lloyd Banks

#because #corners #everybody #feel #get

I remember one winter, when I was about five or six, I spent three days with another boy, tracking a bobcat that had been sighted in another county fifty miles away, but which I was sure had come into our neighborhood. ↗

— Terry Brooks

#another #away #been #boy #come

Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000. ↗

— Anthony Burgess

#books #bookstore #branch #chain #city

For me, it's like biking around the neighborhood, the walks and stuff, because I have never enjoyed the gym. Or I'll do, since I used to dance a lot, all the old dance exercises. ↗

— Delta Burke

#because #biking #dance #enjoyed #exercises

As I visited the various neighborhoods in the campaign, I learned fast that it's a mistake to think that all of the wisdom and possible solutions to our problems are available only in this building. ↗

— Jane Byrne

#building #campaign #fast #i #learned

Chicago's neighborhoods have always been this city's greatest strength. ↗

— Jane Byrne

#been #chicago #city #greatest #greatest strength