Fred Rogers Quotes About Neighbors

Quotes about: Neighbors

• The purpose of life is to listen - to yourself, to your neighbor, to your world and to God and, when the time comes, to respond in as helpful a way as you can find ... from within and without.

  Fred Rogers

  God, Purpose, World

  Fred Rogers (2006). “Wisdom from the World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember”, p.83, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

• I believe that appreciation is a holy thing--that when we look for what's best in a person we happen to be with at the moment, we're doing what God does all the time. So in loving and appreciating our neighbor, we're participating in something sacred.

  Fred Rogers

  Appreciation, Believe, Appreciate

• Listening is where love begins: listening to ourselves and then to our neighbors.

  Fred Rogers

  Love Is, Empathy, Understanding

  Fred Rogers (2004). “The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember”, Large Print Press

• It's a beautiful day in this neighborhood, A beautiful day for a neighbor. Would you be mine? Could you be mine?... It's a neighborly day in this beauty wood, A neighborly day for a beauty. Would you be mine? Could you be mine?... I've always wanted to have a neighbor just like you. I've always wanted to live in a neighborhood with you. So, let's make the most of this beautiful day. Since we're together we might as well say: Would you be mine? Could you be mine? Won't you be my neighbor? Won't you please, Won't you please? Please won't you be my neighbor?

  Fred Rogers

  Beautiful, Together, Might

  Song: Won't You Be My Neighbor?

• It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood, a beautiful day for a neighbor. Would you be mine; could you be mine?

  Fred Rogers

  Beautiful, Neighbor, Mines

  "Won't You Be My Neighbor?" (song) (1967)

• I've always wanted to have a neighbor just like you. I've always wanted to live in a neighborhood with you.

  Fred Rogers

  Home, Like You, Neighbor

  Song: Won't You Be My Neighbor?

• We're all on a journey - each one of us. And if we can be sensitive to the person who happens to be our neighbor, that, to me, is the greatest challenge as well as the greatest pleasure.

  Fred Rogers

  Journey, Challenges, Neighbor

• I have really never considered myself a TV star. I always thought I was a neighbor who just came in for a visit.

  Fred Rogers

  Stars, Tvs, Neighbor

• In appreciating our neighbor, we're participating in something truly sacred.

  Fred Rogers

  Appreciate, Sacred, Neighbor

  Commencement Address at Middlebury College, May 2001.

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