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She's amazing. This mom has two jobs, comes from an area of an unsafe neighborhood and she's so thrilled to raise a family in this beautiful, safe neighborhood.


Launa Butler

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EVA LANG We're still refocusing on this area, the neighborhood, family, extended family, friends, people who ...
SCOTT ATKINSON Think of your head as an unsafe neighborhood; don't go there alone.
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS your mind is like an unsafe neighborhood; don't go there alone.
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS Shes a very talented young forward who has so much potential. She can even step up another notch.
EVA LANG This is the heritage of this park. This is an old equestrian neighborhood. This is really the only p...
MARILEE ULLMANN We're in the neighborhood and we're part of the neighborhood. It's important for everyone to get tog...
AL FERNANDEZ ROBBING GRAVES! SHES ASKING US TO ROB GRAVES!
BRANDON MULL We all deserve to live in a safe neighborhood, a safe community, and so we're going to try to make s...
RAUL ALVAREZ This is a beautiful quiet neighborhood. Victoria Park is hot.
KATHLEEN PRIOR Life is not a b**** shes a victim of neglect so maybe we should give her some respect.
ANDONI GARCIA You can't camouflage a 75-foot elephant in a residential area. This issue affects every residential ...
BETH WHITE It's a beautiful school. It's like nothing we have around here. I am happy that they're doing things...
ELSA RODRIGUEZ His career was only eight months long, and during that time we had moved from the ghetto to an upper...
BOB MORALES We have children and family programming that is conducive to this neighborhood and adds a lot to thi...
CAPT. RANDY HELLSTROM Nobody wants a fraternity in the center of their neighborhood. How many more headlines about drugs, ...
DAVID LYNN This has totally destroyed our neighborhood.
JOHN SIMMONS This issue has polarized the neighborhood.
GARY WARREN I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet se...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW You know, growing up, I lived in a neighborhood in Long Island where there was basically one black f...
LORRAINE BRACCO It's a very united front. The neighbors want this to remain a family friendly neighborhood.
KURT JAMES Our neighborhood has seen plenty of rain this year,
ALLEN TUCKER It feels like a safe neighborhood.
ASHLEIGH BALL I've been blessed to have an amazing mom and two amazing sisters - so they set a very high stand...
TIM TEBOW We think it is an up-and-coming area. It is a little offbeat and that is what our store is all about...
JULIA PORTERA Habitat has built almost 50 houses on the hill (the Hill Section of New Haven). This particular home...
CATHIE MILLER Musicians know that this area has been an amazing hotbed for singers and players.
VINCE GILL The prospective is amazing. You really get the feel of looking down on this Pittsburgh industrial ne...
BRIAN ROGERS That's a neighborhood, an area we might want to look at to see whether our child care services could...
BRUCE BARBER Ten stories in this neighborhood is appropriate, but north of 10th Street should be preserved as a t...
BETINA FINLEY The next five years will be very exciting. We have a lot of vibrant people in the neighborhood wanti...
JENNIFER SAYERS It's a sad thing that you think this would happen in your own neighborhood. You think you're safe an...
HEATHER JOHNSON A 13-year-old girl from this neighborhood had been taken into this property, and over the next hour ...
WILLIE WILLIAMS You're talking about neighborhood schools on one hand and about pulling out two of our neighborhood ...
CYNTHIA LOWERY This is a neighborhood that has intense gang activity and alcohol-fueled violence.
DANA STEVENS What a shame, to ambush somebody in the middle of the night. I live in this neighborhood. You never ...
DON CRAWFORD Shes been the biggest nightmare for me. Ive lost to her the most than any other player.
MEGHANN SHAUGHNESSY We moved here because it was a nice, quiet neighborhood. We wanted to raise our kids in a good neigh...
CASSANDRA BAILEY Soho is a gritty former mercantile area that has, of course, evolved into the most bourgeois neighbo...
ANDRE BALAZS Nobody wants this in their neighborhood.
ALAN DEBOER Back when my grandfather was here, we were the only shop in what was an industrial neighborhood. Now...
CHRIS DONOVAN A LIE IS LIKE A BAD NEIGHBORHOOD;
IT'S NOT SAFE TO LIVE IN
QWANA REYNOLDS-FRASIER I cannot believe what has happened to this neighborhood. It's beyond outrageous.
COUNCILWOMAN SHARI MACKIN We see this as a place for neighborhood services as opposed to high-end retail such as an electronic...
PETER SNOOK Being loved makes teenagers feel secure and safe in an unsafe world.
TIM SMITH I don't think there's a neighborhood where more writers live. There is no neighborhood in the world ...
DAVE EGGERS For these beings, fall is ever the normal season, the only weather, there be no choice beyond. Where...
RAY BRADBURY A family in my sister's neighborhood was recently stricken with a double tragedy, when both the youn...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Really what came out of this was almost an affirmation of issues that the department and really neig...
LYNN HIGHTOWER You know, I still live in my neighborhood. I live in Brooklyn and the same neighborhood, so I don...
VANESSA FERLITO We're calling upon Paramount Pictures to remove these billboards out of our neighborhood and from th...
NAJEE ALI They're really into it, laughing and teasing each other, and I am looking at Pam and thinking once a...
JAMES HOWE It's like an old neighborhood used to be.
CAROLE SMITH There has been no neighborhood meeting, and I've never been contacted by any of these people. This h...
RICK REYNOLDS This is the most densely populated neighborhood -- 22 square blocks -- in the entire country outside...
GORDON CHIN People always need to be cautious. While Lincoln Park is an upscale neighborhood, it is also a neigh...
DENISE MATTSON This is a lot of strain for the neighborhood. We'll see how Buffett goes and go from there.
JAMES MURPHY Empower the neighborhood to be part of this process.
PETER KATZ This makes it a more vibrant neighborhood. It will make the neighborhood busier, but that's not a ba...
BOB JOHNSON They show you this, oh, here's a house here destroyed. Here's a house here destroyed. What you don't...
KEATON THOMAS It's a major rehab of an old, rural neighborhood. It's now been updated to the (21st) century, so to...
GEORGE BENNETT Protein engineering is a technology of molecular machines - of molecular machines that are part of r...
K. ERIC DREXLER What I see here are people beginning to take pride. There's no neighborhood where people are more de...
BRIAN FISCHER In an environmental sense, the black holes are actually preventing galactic sprawl from taking over ...
KIM WEAVER Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth;
whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in...
HERMAN MELVILLE It's wonderful to see this happening in Buffalo and right in our neighborhood.
MARGARET SEYMOUR This is really very much in our neighborhood of the galaxy.
LAIRD CLOSE We're not into going into the political part of this. It's for the benefit of everybody to have an a...
JOSEPH SATER The neighborhood stores are an important part of a city child's life.
BETTY SMITH When I heard she was working with L.A. and Benny I was (thrilled). L.A. has an amazing track record ...
MIMI VALDES This particular neighborhood is actually dying. We keep hearing 'public purpose' while in this case ...
REP. PRISCILLA TAYLOR I don't want my neighbors shooting at a dog in the neighborhood. Something has to be done about this...
JAMES WRIGHT A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.
JOHN CIARDI This has been an amazing, amazing journey,
ADRIEN BRODY I want to burn the world because Alan is gone," he said. "I want to destroy everything I see. But yo...
SARAH REES BRENNAN It's just sad to see anything like this in our neighborhood.
FRANK TORRES The entire Holland team is excited to be able to re-open this location and invite visitors and local...
JOHN KERR We don't want to publish these pictures because they are humiliating, and if we published this in a ...
NAJI HASSAN This is another step in what in effect is part of a national neighborhood watch,
JOHN ASHCROFT This is a working-class neighborhood out there, and we just can't afford this.
BARBARA WOOD I mean, this guy could die. It's a shame. He is such a nice kid. He is the nicest guy on Earth. He h...
LOU DIBELLA This is a neighborhood where people put down roots and stay.
LINDA WESTERGAARD People from outside the neighborhood really have no place coming in and telling us what's good for o...
LUKAS HERBERT I talked to her about finding a safer neighborhood, but she felt comfortable and safe right here.
CHARLIE MUSSELWHITE There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS The message is one of jobs and democracy and honesty and open government, ... Good foreign policy st...
LAURA BUSH Neighbors don't want an unsightly junkyard next door or in the neighborhood,
WAYNE SORENSEN And when community gardens go up in a neighborhood, it's amazing how the people start paying attenti...
MARGARET MORA As a child, I could bike down the hill from my house and grab an ice-cold bottle of soda from the ne...
KEVIN KWAN I will love myself despite the ease with which I lean toward the opposite.
SHANE L. KOYCZAN The neighborhood was difficult. It's a rundown area and it hadn't come into being yet.
JEFF HANSON This whole neighborhood is shocked. ... Totally uncharacteristic of the guy.
ALEX MCLEOD There's been a fabulous resurgence of people fixing up homes. The house values are steadily increasi...
JENNIFER SAYERS The neighborhood is willing to change it to industrial except a portion of it facing the residential...
DANIEL BAILEY These executives earn what an entire neighborhood of typical families make collectively. They don't ...
KAREN FRIEDMAN East Africa is an island of peace and stability surrounded by a neighborhood that is bedeviled with ...
BENJAMIN MKAPA This is apparently a neighborhood feud. This is not the Ku Klux Klan.
JUDY ORIHUELA There's an extreme cost here, in my view, in terms of the disruption to the neighborhood as well,
ROBERT THORNTON We wanted (the event) to be in his neighborhood, and our neighborhood now.
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SAMUEL BUTLER The extremes of glory and of shame, Like east and west, become the same No Indian prince has to his ...
SAMUEL BUTLER One who is proud of ancestry is like a turnip; there is nothing good of him but that which is underg...
SAMUEL BUTLER A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to ...
SAMUEL BUTLER The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
SAMUEL BUTLER Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
SAMUEL BUTLER We payt a person the complement of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
SAMUEL BUTLER Life is the art of drawing sufficent conclusions from insufficient premises.
SAMUEL BUTLER