Browsing Topic Best Good Neighbor Quotes

Good fences make good neighbors.

A good neighbor is a fellow who smiles at you over the back fence, but doesn’t climb over it.

Love your Neighbour; yet don’t pull down your Hedge.

Be a good neighbor, and leave me alone.

We want to live a simple life, … I want to emphasize I’m not an environmentalist who goes to church. I want my principal identity as a Christian to be someone who follows Jesus. I want to work for peace and justice, care for God’s environment, be a good neighbor and friend and live the right life.

No man is a good citizen, a good neighbor, a good friend, or a good man just because he obeys the law. The intrinsic worth is determined mainly by the intrinsic make-up.

Good fences make good neighbors, and these were apparently good enough that they had not felt the need for razor wire at the top. I crested the fence, threw myself into the yard beyond, fell, rolled to my feet, and ran with the expectation of being garroted by a taut clothesline. I heard panting, looked down, and saw a gold retriever running at my side, ears flapping. The dog glanced up at me tongue rolling, grinning, as though jazzed by the prospect of an unscheduled play session.

The American color bar unless speedily removed will be the rock on which our international Good Neighbor policy and our pious claims to moral leadership will founder.

A good neighbor sometimes cuts your morning up to mince-meat of the very smallest talk, then helps to sugar her bohea at night with your reputation.

Definition of good neighbor: someone to be trusted; a courteous, friendly source of help when help is needed; someone you can count on; someone who cares.

Out yonder they may curse, revile, and torture one another, defile all the human instincts, make a shambles of creation (if it were in their power), but here, no, here, it is unthinkable, here there is abiding peace, the peace of God, and the serene security created by a handful of good neighbors living at one with the creature world.

I would never call a neighbor an enemy. But I would request the neighbor to be a good neighbor, to see that the neighbor’s interest is a stable prosperous neighbor, a neighbor that is doing well.

Your neighbor is the man who needs you.

Being a good neighbor is an art which makes life richer.

All will concede that in order to have good neighbors, we must also be good neighbors. That applies in every field of human endeavor.

The happiest people I know are people who don’t even think about being happy. They just think about being good neighbors, good people. And then happiness sort of sneaks in the back window while they are busy doing good.

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

The trade agreement which I had the privilege of signing with your Prime Minister last autumn is tangible evidence of the desire of the people of both countries to practice what they preach when they speak of the good neighbor. In the solution of the grave problems that face the world today, frank dealing, cooperation and a spirit of give and take between nations is more important than ever before.

In the field of world policy; I would dedicate this nation to the policy of the good neighbor.

We seek a peaceful world, a prosperous world, a free world, a world of good neighbors, living on terms of equality and mutual respect, as Canada and the United States have lived for generations.

The essential qualities of a true Pan Americanism must be the same as those which constitute a good neighbor; namely, mutual understanding, and through such understanding, a sympathetic appeciation of the other’s point of view. It is only in this manner that we can hope to build up a system of which confidence, friendship, and good will are the cornerstones.

I don’t miss much about my childhood. I lived in a good neighborhood, a wacky neighborhood. It was a very boy-heavy neighborhood – kind of Lord of the Flies-y. So many weird things happened, funny things.

You can be a good neighbor only if you have good neighbors.

Something there is that doesn’t love a wall, and wants it down.

Late night writing is also good, too, but in New York, you’ve got neighbors. I try to be a good neighbor.

It is discouraging to try to be a good neighbor in a bad neighborhood.

The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.

In one line of his poem he said good fences make good neighbors. I’d like to think that Alaska and British Columbia working together can prove that we can be pretty darned good neighbors without fences.

He who enjoys a good neighbor, said the Greeks, has a precious possession. Same goes for neighbour’s wife.

Find a partner, commit to taking action, and hold each other accountable. Helping our planet is not a one-person or one-country job; we need to be good partners and good neighbors to one another. Routine, measurable, and collective actions both small and large will make an impact.

When the Soviet Union was dissolved, most of us didn’t even have the feeling that the country was falling apart. We thought we would continue with our lives as in the past, but as good neighbors.

The Iranians know what they need to do in order to become a responsible member of the international community and in order to become a good neighbor, and it’s really up to them to change their behavior.