Neighborhood Quotes

• 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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• 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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• The whole world is one neighborhood.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  World, Whole, Whole World

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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  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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• 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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• 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?

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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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• On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Ignorance, Men, Brotherhood Of Man

  "Man of Honor, Man of Peace: The Life and Words of Adlai Stevenson". Book by Robert L. Polley, p. 61, 1965.

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• When the real history of mankind is fully disclosed, will it feature the echoes of gunfire or the shaping sound of lullabies? The great armistices made by military men or the peacemaking of women in homes and in neighborhoods? Will what happened in cradles and kitchens prove to be more controlling than what happened in congresses? When the surf of the centuries has made the great pyramids so much sand, the everlasting family will still be standing, because it is a celestial institution, formed outside telestial time.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Military, Real, Home

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• We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.

  Herman Melville

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

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• I grew up in a tough neighborhood and we used to say you can get further with a kind word and a gun than just a kind word.

  David Mamet

  Gun, Tough, Kind

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• It was dangerous to hit the wrong kid in my neighborhood, because a lot of the guys I played with had fathers in the Mafia.

  Tim Robbins

  Father, Kids, Guy

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• For me, it's like biking around the neighborhood, the walks and stuff, because I have never enjoyed the gym. Or I'll do, since I used to dance a lot, all the old dance exercises.

  Delta Burke

  Inspirational, Dance, Exercise

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• Republicans have called for a National African-American Museum. The plan is being held up by finding a location that isn't in their neighborhood.

  Conan O'Brien

  Museums, African American, Location

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• I like you just the way you are.

  Fred Rogers

  I Like You, Way, Manageable

  Senate Statement on PBS Funding, delivered 1 May 1969

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• Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.

  Gary Oldman

  Growing Up, Anger, Fire

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