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- Nov 07, 2020
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 May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wealthy men, too, like several of those in our neighborhood, had so many slaves that they were compelled to buy other plantations on which to employ them.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a nice neighborhood in Greensboro, N.C., which is not too big, but definitely not a small town.
- Middle Class
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I grew up in a working class neighborhood in Sweden, which, during my teens, gentrified and is now completely middle class and even upper middle class.
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Amazon's been around for 24 years, and now they're doing what any 24-year-old does: move to New York and gentrify a neighborhood.
- Doors
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What is a Muslim neighborhood? How many Muslims have to be in a neighborhood before it becomes worthy of checking papers and kicking in the doors of homes and businesses?
- Jumps
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I was, somewhere in the neighborhood of about 300 jumps.
- Job
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My job in Congress is to identify projects with federal or some other public component and then to push developers to provide employment opportunities to neighborhood residents.
- Nation
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On that terrible day, a nation became a neighborhood. All Americans became New Yorkers.
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When I was growing up, I did go to the arcade. We had a neighborhood arcade, and my friends and I would go fairly regularly.
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You can take the guy out of the neighorhood but you can't take the neighborhood out of the guy.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.
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- Nov 07, 2020