#neighbor

My goodness, everyone is planting grapes, even a neighbor with only five acres. ↗

— Doc Severinsen

#even #everyone #five #goodness #grapes

I explained that we would like to adjust our position on the Syrian question to theirs, as, in our view, they are the decisive factor in our relations with our neighbors, and Syria is unimportant. ↗

— Moshe Sharett

#decisive #explained #factor #i #like

When you see Major League Baseball putting academies in other countries, obviously that throws up a red flag. You wonder why they ain't going up in our neighborhood. Bottom line, what I see, I talk about... I see it over and over. If anybody can show me I'm wrong, then show me. ↗

— Gary Sheffield

#academies #anybody #baseball #bottom #bottom line

It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door. ↗

— Publilius Syrus

#fire #folly #live #neighbor #next

He was so excited. He cut out pictures of these landscapes and neighborhoods and kind of really tried to give you a feel of the movie. It was kind of cute but at the same time it really showed his enthusiasm for it. ↗

— Macaulay Culkin

#cute #enthusiasm #excited #feel #give

It is true that the poet does not directly address his neighbors; but he does address a great congress of persons who dwell at the back of his mind, a congress of all those who have taught him and whom he has admired; they constitute his ideal audience and his better self. ↗

— Richard Wilbur

#admired #audience #back #better #congress

Love is a war of all for all. That is why we must covet our neighbors as ourselves. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #humor #love #neighbor #war

We become neighbors when we are willing to cross the road for one another. (...) There is a lot of road crossing to do. We are all very busy in our own circles. We have our own people to go to and our own affairs to take care of. But if we could cross the road once in a while and pay attention to what is happening on the other side, we might indeed become neighbors. ↗

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

#busy #compassion #love #love-your-neighbor #neighbors

I came from a real tough neighborhood. Why, every time I shut the window I hurt somebody's fingers. ↗

— Rodney Dangerfield

#humour #neighborhoods #funny

A few years ago, a priest working in a slum section of a European city was asked why he was doing it, and replied, 'So that the rumor of God may not completely disappear. ↗

— Peter L. Berger

#agnosticism #angel #angels #atheism #atheist