Gentrifying Quotes

#1. One of the best things I found out about Detroit is that bears have started returning to the city. When bears are gentrifying your neighborhood and opening Thai restaurants, that's a poor neighborhood.

Eugene Mirman

#2. I'm in East L.A., like Mount Washington, Highland Park. There's a little strip that they're gentrifying, trying to make a hip spot, but you go there, and it's just kind of barren. Nobody hangs out anywhere in L.A. There's no loitering in L.A., so I don't know what to do with myself.

King Tuff

#3. Dharma is not upheld by talking about it. Dharma is upheld by living in harmony with it ...

Gautama Buddha

#4. Like all bitter men, Flint knew less than half the story and was more interested in unloading his own peppery feelings than in learning the truth.

John Cheever

#5. He who does not move with the times is a dead man

Vicki Baum

#6. Skill gives you the sky,
talent gives you the stars,
and genius gives you the universe.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#7. In a classical joke a child stays behind after school to ask a personal question. "Teacher, what did I learn today? " The surprised teacher asks, "Why do you ask that?" and the child replies, "Daddy always asks me and I never know what to say".

Seymour Papert

#8. was born trash. Literally, I was found in a dumpster with my umbilical cord still attached.

Lane Whitt

#9. In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.

Solon

#10. The 1960s was an era of big thoughts. And yet, amazingly, each of these thoughts could fit on a T-shirt.

P. J. O'Rourke

#11. To enter heaven is to become more human than you ever succeeded in being on earth; to enter hell, is to be banished from humanity.

C.S. Lewis

#12. I've always been kind of an introvert growing up.

Melissa De Sousa