Neighbors Quotes

People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.

~ George Eliot

There’s no experience quite like cutting your own live Christmas tree out of your neighbor’s yard.

~ Dan Florence

While you were busy trying to prove God stands behind you, God was before me lighting the trail, so he could lead us both.

~ Shannon L. Alder

It is easy to believe we are each waves and forget we are also the ocean.

~ Jon J. Muth

Worship Allah and associate nothing with Him, and to parents do good, and to relatives, orphans, the needy, the near neighbor, the neighbor farther away, the companion at your side, the traveler, and those whom your right hands possess (slaves). Indeed, Allah does not like those who are proud and boastful.[Al-Qur'an Surah Nisa 4:36]

~ Asma Naqi

Most employees don’t really want to be highly-paid; they just want to earn more than their peers, and, more importantly, more than their neighbours.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It was hard to disappear completely in Botswana, where there were fewer than two million people and where people had a healthy curiosity as to who was who and where people had come from. It was very difficult to be anonymous, even in Gaborone, as there would always be neighbours who would want to know exactly what one was doing and who one’s people had been.

~ Alexander Mccall Smith

Wealth is relative. Some people aren’t really rich, they just have poor neighbors.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The best way that a man could test his readiness to encounter the common variety of mankind would be to climb down a chimney into any house at random, and get on as well as possible with the people inside. And that is essentially what each one of us did on the day that he was born.

~ G.k. Chesterton

Don't pretend like you know me 'cause you shook some neighborhood tree and got a li'l rotten fruit.

~ Lauren Francis-Sharma

The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.

~ William Hazlitt

What a cruel thing war is... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors.

~ Robert E. Lee

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors as ourselves. Surely part of loving in this way is trying to understand what another person wants us to understand. I may not understand perfectly and I may not agree, but if I love you I should try to know what it is you wish I could know.

~ Kevin Deyoung

I'll never forget Hurricane Katrina - the mix of a natural and a man-made catastrophe that resulted in the death of over 1,500 of our neighbors. Millions of folks were marked by the tragedy.

~ Cedric Richmond

Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.

~ Golda Meir

In the States, you can buy Chinese food. In Beijing you can buy hamburger. It's very close. Now I feel the world become a big family, like a really big family. You have many neighbors. Not like before, two countries are far away.

~ Jet Li

It's good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for awhile their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.

~ Maya Angelou

It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land.

~ Sitting Bull

Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.

~ Josh Billings

Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.

~ George Bancroft

In the case of Iraq, notwithstanding the violence there at the moment, the very fact that a hideous regime - responsible for genocide, for the use of chemical and biological weapons, aggression against two neighbors - has been removed in itself is a positive development.

~ José Ramos-Horta

Your neighbors will be envious of your 3D printer - and if they're not, just print new neighbors. Design them so they'll like to bring you pies, maybe, or want to do your yard work for you.

~ W. Bruce Cameron

To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius.

~ Minna Antrim

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.

~ James Madison

Surely wisdom will come as we listen to learn from children, parents, partners, neighbors, Church leaders, and the Lord.

~ Russell M. Nelson

If a nation wants to live in peace with its neighbors, it doesn't keep rattling the saber at them.

~ Howard E. Koch

We should learn to live and love our neighbors as ourselves for the sake of peace and progress.

~ David Mccallum

If your neighbors think you're a detective because a cop always brings you home, you might be a redneck.

~ Jeff Foxworthy

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.

~ Confucius

They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse.

~ Sitting Bull

Shrimp farms are a scourge on the earth, frankly, from an environmental point of view. They pour huge amounts of pollutants into the ocean. They also pollute their next-door neighbors.

~ Jane Poynter