#neighbor

My parents were terrific - mother was a church organist and my father was probably the most respected person in our church outside of the minister and sometimes maybe that much. The neighbors all called him - a gentleman. ↗

— Jane Pauley

#church #father #gentleman #him #maybe

All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#aware #born #brought #clan #deeply

I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark. ↗

— Dick Gregory

#because #believed #claus #come #dark

Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's wall is ablaze. ↗

— Horace

#own #safety #stake #wall #your

It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire. ↗

— Horace

#fire #neighbor #wall #your

In the case of Iraq, notwithstanding the violence there at the moment, the very fact that a hideous regime - responsible for genocide, for the use of chemical and biological weapons, aggression against two neighbors - has been removed in itself is a positive development. ↗

— Jose Ramos-Horta

#aggression #been #biological #biological weapons #case

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much. ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

#enough #everybody #find #i #impress

I came from a real tough neighborhood. Once a guy pulled a knife on me. I knew he wasn't a professional, the knife had butter on it. ↗

— Rodney Dangerfield

#funny #humour #neighborhoods #funny

In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor. ↗

— William Ames

#found #height #joy #love #neighbor

For this is our most perfect duty and yet least known to us by nature: Whatever we conceive or will should be joined with the good of our neighbor. ↗

— William Ames

#duty #good #joined #known #least