Next Door Neighbors Quotes

• The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Love, Funny, Life

  "The Illustrated London News" Magazine, July 16, 1910.

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• I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?

  Mother Teresa

  Women, Responsibility, Doors

  Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.27, New World Library

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• We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Funny, Friendship, God

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.196, Simon and Schuster

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• You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.

  Walter Bagehot

  Real, Doors, Tyrants

  "The Character of Sir Robert Peel" (1856)

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• I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor.

  Laurence Sterne

  Doors, Mountain, Cottages

  Laurence Sterne (1795). “The Works of Laurence Sterne”, p.175

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• I used to dress up and impersonate our next-door neighbor, Miss Cox. She wore rubber boots, a wool hat, and her nose always dripped.

  Tracey Ullman

  Doors, Missing, Rubber

  "Q&A: Tracey Ullman" by Devin Gordon, www.newsweek.com. September 19, 2004.

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• Hate your next-door neighbor, but don't forget to say grace.

  Barry McGuire

  Religious, Hate, Doors

  Song: Eve Of Destruction

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• I'm sick of very white teeth and lots of gymnasium practice. I'm bored, you know, send in the next one. I wanted a real man that I could believe was my brother, my father, you know, my next-door neighbor - a real person.

  Tim Roth

  Brother, Father, Real

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• Your next-door neighbor is not a man; he is an environment. He is the barking of a dog; he is the noise of a piano; he is a dispute about a party wall; he is drains that are worse than yours, or roses that are better than yours.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Funny, Dog, Wall

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• It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.

  Horace

  Wall, Business, Fire

  'Epistles' bk. 1, no. 18, l. 84

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• The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell.

  Aleister Crowley

  Religious, Doors, People

  "The Confessions of Aleister Crowley". Book by Aleister Crowley. Chapter 3, 1969.

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• Only black people in the whole neighborhood, so let's break it down: Me, I'm a decent comedian, I'm a'ight. Mary J. Blige, one of the greatest R&B singers to ever walk the Earth. Jay-Z, one of the greatest rappers to ever live. Eddie Murphy, one of the funniest actors to ever, ever do it. Do you know what the white man that lives next door to me does for a living? He's a f*****g dentist.

  Chris Rock

  Men, Rapper, Doors

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• We shall soon be obliged to meet in cellars, or in darkened rooms with closed doors, and speak in whispers lest our next door neighbors should hear that freeborn citizens dare not speak in the open.

  Emma Goldman

  Doors, Citizens, Rooms

  Emma Goldman, Candace Falk, Barry Pateman, Jessica M. Moran (2004). “Emma Goldman: Making speech free, 1902-1909”, p.583, Univ of California Press

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• My next door neighbor's two dogs have created more shovel-ready jobs than this current administration.

  Gary Johnson

  Dog, Jobs, Doors

  YouTube Chanel "acdccult69"/ "Gary Johnson's Dog Comment at Fox/Google debate 9/22/11", www.youtube.com. September 22, 2011.

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• So I dipped into my childhood and came up with Nicky Deuce. I wanted him to get into a lot of mischief, like the time I taped a fork to a broom handle and cattle-rustled a steak off the barbecue of the next-door neighbor.

  Steve Schirripa

  Doors, Childhood, Deuces

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• It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor. ... Some of the worst tyrannies of our day genuinely are "vowed" to the service of mankind, yet can function only by pitting neighbor against neighbor. The all-seeing eye of a totalitarian regime is usually the watchful eye of the next-door neighbor. In a Communist state love of neighbor may be classed as counter-revolutionary.

  Eric Hoffer

  Eye, Doors, Humanity

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• There was a four year old child whose next door neighbor was an elderly gentleman who had recently lost his wife.
  Upon seeing the man cry, the little boy went into the old gentleman's yard, climbed onto his lap, and just sat there.
  When his Mother asked what he had said to the neighbor, the little boy said,
  “Nothing, I just helped him cry.²”
  “Even after all this time
  the sun never says to the earth
  “You owe me”
  Look what happens with a love like that,
  It lights the whole sky..”

  Hafez

  Mother, Children, Boys

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• Other people--grandparents, sisters and brothers, the mother's best friend, the next-door neighbor--get to be familiar to the baby. If the mother communicates her trust in these people, the baby will regard them as delicious novelties. Anybody the mother trusts whom the baby sees often enough partakes a bit of the presence of the mother.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Mother, Baby, Brother

  Louise J. Kaplan (1978). “Oneness and separateness: from infant to individual”, Touchstone

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• A writer writes for writers, a non-writer writes for his next-door neighbor or for the manager of the local bank branch, and he fears (often mistakenly) that they would not understand or, in any case, would not forgive his boldness.

  Umberto Eco

  Writing, Doors, Forgiving

  Umberto Eco (1995). “How to Travel with a Salmon & Other Essays”, p.193, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Because I'm technologically able to find a like-minded person on the other side of the globe, I'm also more interested in making friends with my next-door neighbor.

  Jeffrey Klein

  Friends, Technology, Doors

  "As the World Turns" by Jeffrey Klein, www.motherjones.com. March/April 1998.

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• Whether [people] run their own business, work for a business, go out there, pay their taxes and see the money wasted, fed up with the money going to the next door neighbor sitting permanently on out of work benefits. There needs to be a coalition of change.

  George Osborne

  Running, Doors, People

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• Serve your neighbors (like your next-door neighbors). It's a good way to get to know them better and show them what Jesus is about.

  Matt Hammitt

  Jesus, Doors, Way

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• My whole family is in the arts some way or the other. My father was a cellist in a symphony outside Chicago that was a side-job, he was a scientist. My mother was a dancer in New York. She was next-door neighbors with Dorothy Loudon and they moved to New York together. Mom was a dancer in New York for several years before she got married. My sister was a classical pianist. And my brother was a partier. So it all just seemed to work.

  Jason Graae

  Mom, Mother, Brother

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• Growing up, there was always music around, whether across the street, or on the next-door neighbor's stereo. So, as in life, music is always around, and it helps to heighten any emotion. Music is amazing.

  Tyler Perry

  Growing Up, Doors, Next

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• In America, if your next-door neighbor has a Rolls-Royce, you want one too. But in England, if your neighbor has a Rolls-Royce, you want him to die in a fiery accident. That's a quote from someone else, but there's something about American optimism, that feeling you can do anything if you're at least middle class in America. If I can have a writing career, anyone can. There's nothing special about me.

  David Sedaris

  Writing, America, Doors

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