Quotes About Neighbor

The very day after Lincoln's election, an obscure Springfield neighbor named Henry Fawcett dispatched a note begging the president-elect to let him "go with you to the White House as your Body Servant." Fawcett, who listed among his qualifications his experience ringing a local church bell when Lincoln won the nomination, offered "to carry your Messages and so forth…even Shaving you as well.

Asked at one point why he had slain so many of his neighbors, Unruh replied: "I'd have killed a thousand if I'd had bullets enough."[55]

Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives.

Hey, Mr. Cunningham. How's your entailment gettin' along?

Jem, naturally, was Boo: he went under the front steps and shrieked and howled from time to time.

Older Scout: [narrating] Neighbors bring food with death, and flowers with sickness, and little things in between. Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a knife, and our lives.

seemed to have little fear of Boo Radley now that Walter and I walked beside him. Indeed, Jem grew boastful:

Hey, Boo," I said.

Kad neko umre susedi donose hranu, cve?e kad se neko razboli, a izme?u toga malo šta. Bu je bio naš sused. Poklonio nam je dve lutkice od sapuna, pokvareni sat na lancu, dve parice koje donose sre?u, i naše živote. Ali susedi vra?aju uzdarjima. Mi u drvo nikada nismo vratili ono što smo izvadili iz njega; mi njemu nismo dali ništa, i ja se rastužih zbog toga.

His lips parted into a timid smile, and our neighbor's image blurred with my sudden tears. "Hey, Boo," I said.

Neighbors bring food with death and flowers with sickness and little things in between. Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives. But neighbors give in return. We never put back into the tree what we took out of it: we had given him nothing, and it made me sad. I

What Mr. Radley did was his own business. If he wanted to come out, he would. If he wanted to stay inside his own house he had the right to stay inside free from the attentions of inquisitive children, which was a mild term for the likes of us.

Mr. Nathan, Mr. Arthur, mad dog's comin'! Mad dog's comin'!

Let's try to make him come out," said Dill. "I'd like to see what he looks like." Jem said if Dill wanted to get himself killed, all he had to do was go up and knock on the front door.

When I pointed to him his palms slipped slightly, leaving greasy sweat streaks on the wall, and he hooked his thumbs in his belt. A strange small spasm shook him, as if he heard fingernails scrape slate, but as I gazed at him in wonder the tension slowly drained from his face. His lips parted into a timid smile, and our neighbor's image blurred with my sudden tears. "Hey, Boo," I said.

We proudly harvest rainwater"—a sign in a neighbor's yard. With a deep barrel I could humbly and thankfully harvest rain.

There are many who are not guilty of doing anything wrong but very guilty of sins of omission - the things they neglect to do - the good things - the kind, thoughtful words, compassionate thoughts and hopeful attitudes they might have had towards their neighbor.

One of the most humbling gigs I've ever had was I was paid by a neighbor to go get a dead bird out of her house. She was kind of a high up in the music business, and she knew that I needed cash, and I used to do some yard work for her.

Thank you, yard sales, for being the perfect way to say to your neighbors: 'We think we're important enough to charge money for our garbage.'

I just found out about 10 days ago that I must live 300 or 400 yards from Britney Spears... so now I have to move.

authority love your neighbor.no matter what the condition is. even if it means to sacrifice your plan to do what he or she wants.

I stress the deep need each woman has to study the scriptures. [...] Regardless of your particular circumstances, as you become more and more familiar with the truths of the scriptures, you will be more and more effective in keeping the second great commandment, to love your neighbor as yourself. Become scholars of the scriptures--not to put others down, but to lift them up!

No envy is more mean than that of small-minded beings when they see a neighbor lifted, as though borne aloft by angels, out of the dull drudgery of their common existence; petty spirits are more ready to forgive a prince the most fabulous wealth than a fellow-sufferer beneath the same yoke the smallest degree of freedom.

a human being will accept the strictest disciplinary measures with a better grace if he knows that they will fall with equal severity on his neighbour. Justice in some mysterious way makes up for violence.