#neighborhood

We can't do much about ensuring that the homeland is safe if our local police and sheriffs' departments don't have the personnel they need to keep our streets and neighborhoods secure. ↗

— Dick Durbin

#departments #ensuring #homeland #keep #local

At the time I attempted to purchase the rights back for the 3 Homestead records, but the owner demanded an outrageous sum in the neighborhood of $10,000, about 10 times more money than I could get my hands on at the time. ↗

— Mark Edwards

#attempted #back #could #demanded #get

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 grew up in a tough neighborhood and we used to say you can get further with a kind word and a gun than just a kind word. ↗

— David Mamet

#get #grew #gun #i #just

My mother used to wheel me about the campus when we lived in that neighborhood and, as she recounted years later, she would tell me that I would go to McGill. ↗

— Rudolph A. Marcus

#campus #go #i #later #lived

I wanted to become a champ - I was surrounded by champs in my family and in my neighborhood - and because of this stupid accident, I lost my opportunity. ↗

— Olivier Martinez

#because #become #champ #family #i

I think I was probably that kid in the neighborhood who you could expect once or twice a year to be knocking on your door trying to sell you something stupid. ↗

— Andrew Mason

#door #expect #i #i think #kid

On that terrible day, a nation became a neighborhood. All Americans became New Yorkers. ↗

— George Pataki

#became #day #nation #neighborhood #new

All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#aware #born #brought #clan #deeply

I was born in Detroit, in an all black neighborhood. ↗

— Steven Seagal

#born #detroit #i #i was born #neighborhood