Neighbours Quotes

“I remember Peyton [Manning] called me as soon as I got out to Denver. He started the conversation by asking me, ‘When did you get in?’ We mainly just talked to get familiar with each other.”
― Vernon Davis, Playing Ball: Life Lessons from My Journey to the Super Bowl and Beyond

“Als ob meine Eltern sich jemals ernsthaft für ihre Nachbarn interessiert hätten oder gar umgekehrt.
Da hätte Jesus persönlich nebenan wohnen können und Papa hätte doch nie mehr gemacht, als vielleicht mal über den Gartenzaun zu winken.”
― Bettina Belitz, Splitterherz

“Neighbours complaining about someone’s dog making an awful racket. You could hardly blame the poor beast, its owner had died in her bed at least a fortnight before and there hadn’t been much left of the old girl worth eating.”
― James Oswald, Natural Causes

“If you really want to make a friend, go round someone's house with a freshly baked loaf of sourdough bread!”
― Chris Geiger

“And thus was born The Seal Cove Theoretical Society, devoted to chit-chat, observation, current events, gossip, philosophical debate, and the occasional profound speculation, and bound together by friendship and forgiveness, which we all need, even if we deny it.”
― S.W. Clemens, The Seal Cove Theoretical Society

“Let’s try to create a new habit of slow travel; let’s forfeit the social media selfies and work on creating true links of friendship, mutual aid, trust and discovery when we are guests in other people’s communities and homes.”
― Heather Marsh, The Creation of Me, Them and Us

“The point on which the town of Seal Cove is built, shelters a small harbor on the south, and a series of lovely secluded coves on the north, one of which lends its name to the town.”
― S.W. Clemens, The Seal Cove Theoretical Society

“Humanity is capable of such mindless horror. We embody the worst inclinations of all living things on earth — cruelty, hubris, greed, unspeakable violence, and disregard for consequences. And then we turn around and embody the best of all living things on earth — compassion, music, art, literature, scientific inquiry, invention and great imagination. What a burden it is to be human. What a privilege.”
― S.W. Clemens, The Seal Cove Theoretical Society

“You can love your neighbour, if you love God. For thy neighbour is part of brotherhood of the bond of love.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Tears of our own appears like blood, but tears of unknown feels like just water.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Building a neighbourhood takes a very long time. It takes at least twenty years and then some. Like a garden, a neighbourhood must be tended regularly and by many people. There are seeds to be sown, little plants to water. And yes, every day there are weeds to be pulled, small problems to be solved before they overwhelm what is good. It is a humble task, and it is never over. There are days when you think the slightest storm could blow all this loveliness away.”
― Mary Jo Leddy, The Other Face of God: When the Stranger Calls Us Home

“To love your neighbour as yourself is all that is needed.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“The thing was not to get to know any of them, if possible. Once you know your neighbours, you are no longer free, you are all tangled up, you have to stop and speak when you are out and you never feel safe when you are in.”
― Rose Macaulay, Crewe Train

“Love your neighbour as you will love yourself.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“To share your food with your neighbour is a kind act of bonding.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“If you plot no evil against your neighbour, you will live in safety.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Even though we remain the same person, we have different types of relationships with our parents, children, spouse, relatives, friends, teachers, students, colleagues and neighbours. Each type of relationship fulfils a need which other relationships can’t fulfil. A happy person is one who maintains all types of relationships in life.”
― Awdhesh Singh, 31 Ways to Happiness

“To love God and to love neighbour are the greatest grace for all other good deeds.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“When we want better families, better neighbors, better friends, and better schools we shall turn our backs on national and global systems, on expert experts and specialist specialties and begin to make our own schools one by one, far from the reach of systems.”
― John Taylor Gatto, The Underground History of American Education: An Intimate Investigation Into the Prison of Modern Schooling

“Your friend is your friend but your neighbour is your nearest family.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Love of the Lord God is grace to love thy neighbour.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“By exerting ourselves through unnecessary or irrelevant speech or action, we increase the risk of conflict by a million percent.

By meeting or approaching when it is not necessary or relevant to do so, we increase the risk of increasing the risk by a million percent.

Space cultivates longing, (so) may longing cultivate space. And thus cultivate warmth and peace, enforced by brief interactions [parting ways on positive notes]. Space can be expressed not only in the physical sense.”
― Monaristw

“By exerting ourselves through unnecessary or irrelevant speech or action, we increase the risk of conflict by a million percent.

By meeting or approaching when it is not necessary or relevant to do so, we increase the risk of increasing the risk by a million percent.

Space cultivates longing, (so) may longing cultivate space. And thus cultivate warmth and peace, enforced by brief interactions [parting ways on positive notes]. Space can be expressed not only in the physical sense.

There is a higher purpose.”
― Monaristw

“When India and China became, for the first time in history, next-door neighbours after China’s occupation of Tibet in 1950, neither country had any close familiarity with the other.”
― Shyam Saran, How China Sees India and the World

“I’m going now, neighbor, but consider this: you are suffering a true, you know, witchly fate. And like the man said: in the shithouse, no one can hear you scream.”
― Stephen King, Just After Sunset

“But the world is all alike. Those that seem better than their neighbours, are only more artful.”
― William Godwin

“You don't need to worry about picking a side when it comes to politics. Just be good to those around you, and be the neighbour you'd like to have living next door. The rest takes care of itself when we look after eachother regardless of differences.”
― Torron-Lee Dewar

“It’s not paranoia if you’re right. And he was right about everything—except who was really watching.”
― Paul John De Matteo, The Neighbours Next Door

“Sometimes the most dangerous secrets are the ones whispered over the fence.”
― Paul De Matteo

“Sometimes the most dangerous secrets are the ones whispered over the fence.— from The Neighbours Next Door by Paul De Matteo”
― Paul De Matteo