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Neighborhood Quotes
The blocks that shaped us.
These neighborhood quotes recall tough upbringings, shared schools, and small local claims to fame that shape someone's early sense of identity. They show how much a childhood block can influence a person's later life.
- Last Updated on Aug 01, 2026
- People
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Gangsters lived in the neighborhood. They weren't apart from it. Their relationships with people were both benevolent and scary.
- Old
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I wanted to be that cranky old guy that stands on his porch and yells at the neighborhood kids.
- Come
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You come to know the aches and vanities and tastes and intrigues of an entire neighborhood at a drug store.
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Jack Kennedy was one year older than I was, and we attended the same neighborhood school.
- Park
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The refurbishing and rebuilding of Fenway Park since 2001 has created a new urban neighborhood in Boston.
- Great
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I saw all those great '70s films when I was 9, and no one in my Brooklyn neighborhood cared if a kid watched an R movie.
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When I was growing up, I lived in a neighborhood that was largely Latino and I thought I was Latino!
- Growing Up
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As a post-Holocaust kid, growing up in a neighborhood with a lot of Jewish refugees, I had got the idea there were no Jews left in Europe. But I found in my European wanderings that many of them had gone back and rebuilt their lives.
- Brotherhood
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We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.
- I Feel Like
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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.
- Now
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Barack Obama and Michelle Obama don't go to Georgetown... The Clintons did, indeed. And the Clintons go out and about in Washington now. They go to neighborhood restaurants.
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- Nov 07, 2020