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Quotes About Neighbors

Let the truth be in your hearts, as it will be if you practise meditation, and you will see clearly what love we are bound to have for our neighbors.
~ Teresa of Avila
for it happens that books are the only article of property in which I am richer than my neighbors.
~ Thomas de Quincey
we then must ask: Who are the brothers and sisters? Are they the people in this block or rural area? Or are they everyone in this city . . . or this state . . . or this nation? Or in our global village, would our neighbors include the third and fourth worlds as well as the first and second? If one answers yes to this last question, how could he possibly get norms for poverty when there are such vast differences among the four worlds?
~ Thomas Dubay
Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.
~ Henry David Thoreau
To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius.
~ Minna Antrim
Romania can be a linchpin in delivering gas to its neighbors and even become an energy exporter for its neighbors across Central and Eastern Europe.
~ Joe Biden
The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.
~ Francis Bacon
The dignity of our neighbors deserves to be defended.
~ Abigail Spanberger
The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.
~ Samuel Smiles
No matter what happens, I can go back to the mountains. I have nature and my wonderful friends and neighbors. I get so much by being there.
~ Lizz Wright
The Hester Street Fair started off as a passion project. We imagined a space where friends and neighbors in the creative community could have a place to find an audience.
~ Su-chin Pak
My neighbors don't care that I'm an author. It's inherently ego-inhibiting.
~ Ryan Holiday
I'm not any more moral than my neighbors.
~ Ralph Waite
He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine.
~ Jeremy Taylor
I have a garden, and I collect different heirloom seeds from different neighbors.
~ Zac Posen
I don't think that writers have any responsibility to be good neighbors to the audience.
~ Jez Butterworth
I avoid my neighbors - luckily, my building has two exits.
~ Lynn Samuels
There is an elementary level of trust that is necessary for community. You have to be able to trust that your neighbors aren't going to look into your mailbox.
~ Howard Rheingold
I'm from the Midwest. We like to know who our neighbors are.
~ Jami Attenberg
With respect to Euro-Atlantic integration, we have to realize that we need to normalize the relationships with our neighbors, and especially with Russia.
~ Bidzina Ivanishvili
Serving my neighbors in Congress and fighting for them has been the best job I've ever had.
~ Keith Ellison
I always loved to entertain and show off in front of the neighbors. I would sing and dance at their houses.
~ Debbie Reynolds
Our children need to remember to love each other, how to honor each other, their parents, God, and their neighbors.
~ Alveda King
In general, writers who talk to their colleagues and neighbors constantly about their own writing seem to me pretty insufferable. I try not to be that guy.
~ Ken Liu