Neighborhood Quotes

• The whole world is one neighborhood.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  World, Whole, Whole World

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• Earth is a small town with many neighborhoods in a very big universe.

  Ronald J. Garan, Jr.

  Earth, Towns, Small Town

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• Cleanliness is not next to godliness. It isn't even in the same neighborhood.

  Erma Bombeck

  Toasters, Next, Cleanliness

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• Walk to work, even if it's four miles. Ride a bike to work. Drive a different way. On your way there, try to find beauty. You'd be surprised how much more of the neighborhood you can perceive and experience when you're looking for unique spots of beauty.

  Nolan Bushnell

  Unique, Trying, Different

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• Imagine what our real neighborhoods would be like if each of us offered . . . just one kind word to another person.

  Fred Rogers

  Real, Caring, Would Be

  Fred Rogers (2006). “Wisdom from the World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember”, p.92, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• 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)

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• When the world seems large and complex, we need to remember that great world ideals all begin in some home neighborhood.

  Konrad Adenauer

  Home, Needs, World

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• If we wish to rebuild our cities, we must first rebuild our neighborhoods.

  Harvey Milk

  Cities, Wish, Firsts

  Harvey Milk (2013). “An Archive of Hope: Harvey Milk's Speeches and Writings”, p.167, Univ of California Press

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• While the spirit of neighborliness was important on the frontier because neighbors were so few, it is even more important now because our neighbors are so many.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Community, Important, Spirit

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• I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Kwanzaa, True Joy, Privilege And Responsibility

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• You have to be involved in terms of what's happening in your local neighborhood and what issues are there.

  Barack Obama

  Issues, Term, Locals

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• You can take the guy out of the neighborhood but you can't take the neighborhood out of the guy.

  Frankie Valli

  Guy

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• We want someone else to act. But miracles aren't what other people do. They're what each of us does. They're what happens when ordinary people take extraordinary action. To be a miracle doesn't mean you have to tackle problems across the globe. It means making a difference in your own living room, cubicle, neighborhood, community.

  Regina Brett

  Mean, Differences, People

  Regina Brett (2012). “Be the Miracle: 50 Lessons for Making the Impossible Possible”, p.4, Hachette UK

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• The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Friendship, Family, Government

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• There is plenty to do, for each one of us, working on our own hearts, changing our own attitudes, in our own neighborhoods.

  Dorothy Day

  Attitude, Heart, Plenty

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• Not everyone is your brother or sister in the faith, but everyone is your neighbor, and you must love your neighbor.

  Timothy Keller

  Love, Sister, Faith

  Timothy Keller (2010). “Generous Justice: How God's Grace Makes Us Just”, p.48, Penguin

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• Tomorrow morning before we depart, I intend to land and see what can be found in the neighborhood.

  Christopher Columbus

  Morning, Land, Tomorrow

  Arnold Walter Lawrence, Christopher Columbus, Jean Young (1931). “Narratives of the Discovery of America”, New York, Cape

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• A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.

  Richard Whately

  Selfish, Helping Others, Men

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• Many of the green places and open spaces that need protecting most today are in our own neighborhoods. In too many places, the beauty of local vistas has been degraded by decades of ill-planned and ill-coordinated development.

  Al Gore

  Space, Needs, Development

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• Whining lets the brute know there's a victim for him in the neighborhood!

  Maya Angelou

  Whining, Victim, Brutes

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  Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Inspirational, Self Esteem, Greatness

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1868). “Passages from the American Note-books of Nathaniel Hawthorne”, p.28

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• I am always drawn back to places where I have lived, the houses and their neighborhoods.

  Truman Capote

  House

  Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.3, Vintage

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• People don't know that New York really is just made up of a group of very small neighborhoods.

  Ann Richards

  New York, People, Groups

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• And I realized as I walked through the neighborhood how each house could contain a completely different reality. In a single block, there could be fifty seperate worlds. Nobody ever really knew what was going on just next door.

  Janet Fitch

  Block, Reality, Doors

  Janet Fitch (2013). “White Oleander”, p.92, Hachette UK

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• I just listened to the music, and breathed in the day, and remembered things. Things like walking around the neighborhood and looking at the houses and the lawns and the colorful trees and having that be enough.

  Stephen Chbosky

  House, Tree, Enough

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

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