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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• CBS really wants me on TV. That's their aim. My aim is to have an all-gay sitcom someday, with heterosexuals as token guest stars. Let them be the next-door neighbors for a change.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Stars, Gay, Doors

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• Spread love everywhere you go; first of all in your house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor. Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Life, Children

  "Worldwide Laws Of Life: 200 Eternal Spiritual Principles". Book by John Templeton, p. 448, 1998.

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• There are so many people in the world, and I want to know them all but I don’t even know my next-door neighbor’s name.

  Jon McGregor

  Doors, Names, People

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• Welsh is an actual, currently used language and our next-door neighbors Angela and Gaenor spoke it. It sounds like Wizard.

  Maureen Johnson

  Doors, Wizards, Next

  Maureen Johnson (2011). “The Name of the Star”, p.44, Penguin

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• What are Fred and I? Next door neighbors?

  J. K. Rowling

  Doors, Funny Harry Potter, Next

  "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix". Book by J. K. Rowling, June 21, 2003.

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• I think whenever we think of our hometowns, we tend to think of very specific people: with whom you rode on the school bus, who was your next door neighbor you were playing with, who your girlfriend was. It's always something very specific.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Girlfriend, School, Thinking

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• You can argue that it's a different world now than the one when Matthew Shepard was killed, but there is a subtle difference between tolerance and acceptance. It's the distance between moving into the cul-de-sac and having your next door neighbor trust you to keep an eye on her preschool daughter for a few minutes while she runs out to the post office. It's the chasm between being invited to a colleague's wedding with your same-sex partner and being able to slow-dance without the other guests whispering.

  Jodi Picoult

  Daughter, Running, Sex

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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• To those of my race who depend on bettering their condition in a foreign land or who underestimate the importance of cultivating friendly relations with the Southern white man, who is their next-door neighbor, I would say 'Cast down your bucket where you are.'

  Booker T. Washington

  Men, White, Race

  Booker T. Washington (2013). “The Booker T. Washington Reader”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• We, as humans, have actually developed a sense of social responsibility. We have gone beyond our basic instincts. We can and we do. This is what sets us apart from the chimps. They are extremely brutal and hostile. Your next door neighbor is to be killed unless she is a juicy young female, who hasn't yet had her first baby, in which case you want her.

  Jane Goodall

  Baby, Responsibility, Doors

  "Even Chimps Understand Sustainability". Interview with Philip Bethge and Johann Grolle, www.spiegel.de. October 7, 2015.

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• People get famous now for I-don't-know-what. People have reality shows because they're a Hollywood socialite, and these things become very successful and they generate a shitload of money for the company. And it's multiplying, to where you're literally looking into your next door neighbor's bathroom with reckless abandon. It is like watching a fire. You can't take your eyes off of it.

  Johnny Depp

  Eye, Successful, Reality

  Interview with Iggy Pop, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 19, 2014.

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• I was named after the next-door neighbor's German shepherd. It was either that or Cadillac Smith.

  Rex Smith

  Doors, Shepherds, Cadillacs

  "New Again: Rex Smith". Interview with Andy Warhol, Bob Colacello, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 12, 2015.

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