#neighborhood

The most important decision I've made in business? The choices of people I have around me. When I first started I brought everybody with me, my homies from the neighborhood, criminals. I just said, 'Come on everybody, we made it.' Then I had to realize we didn't make it. I made it. ↗

— Snoop Dogg

#brought #business #choices #come #criminals

Some people are uncomfortable with the idea that humans belong to the same class of animals as cats and cows and raccoons. They're like the people who become successful and then don't want to be reminded of the old neighborhood. ↗

— Phil Donahue

#belong #cats #class #cows #humans

I worry about the kids who have too much. As a parent living in a so-called good neighborhood with children who went to private high school, I found myself spending much time in parent groups worrying about alcohol, unsupervised parties, and parents not being parents. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

#alcohol #being #children #found #good

The alarming thing in China is the almost total absence of primary care. Even in cities, there are no independent doctors' offices or neighborhood clinics, so people have to go to the hospital for every health care need. ↗

— Nancy Travis

#alarming #almost #care #china #cities

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

— Mike Wallace

#i #jack #jack kennedy #kennedy #neighborhood

But my friends, these people in Egypt have stood by us in a tough, tough neighborhood. ↗

— Roger Wicker

#friends #neighborhood #people #stood #these

I mean that the function of the police is to solve problems that have law-enforcement consequences in a way that is based on a genuine partnership with the neighborhood in both the venting of the problem and the discussion of the solution. ↗

— James Q. Wilson

#both #consequences #discussion #function #genuine

I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark. ↗

— Dick Gregory

#because #believed #claus #come #dark

An activist is one who is actively involved in creating community, whether that is locally in their neighborhood or internationally. It is an admirable quality. ↗

— Jasmine Guy

#activist #admirable #community #creating #internationally

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