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

Martin Luther King Jr.

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.

Hubert H. Humphrey

It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.

Harry S Truman

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

Publilius Syrus

We'd have to be creative by relying on other volunteer organizations, neighboring cities and counties.

Jerry Martin

If anyone has sold a vehicle of that description, if anyone knows of anyone -- a neighbor, a friend, someone who lives down the street -- who has sold a vehicle matching that description we would ask them to contact local law enforcement.

Bill Miskell

I don't fault anyone who's a neighbor for being here and protecting what's important to them. But the entire community is the beneficiary of what we approve at this table.

Mayor Helen Klanderud

DISABUSE, v.t. The present your neighbor with another and better error than the one which he has deemed it advantageous to embrace.

Ambrose Bierce

Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.

Nikolai Berdyaev

He was the best neighbor ever. I think he was best to me and Phoenix, than everybody. He gave him a ride to Martin's.

Markitta Sanders

A lot of it is public information, with the days of the Internet. Here's the other way you know it: Know thy neighbor, because thy neighbor knows all.

Stephen Jordan

May the Christian church never be regarded as a special interest group. We're here because we love our neighbor.

Chuck Colson

Hate your next-door neighbor, but don't forget to say grace.

Barry Mcguire

Station 4 had a one-minute response, ... That house would not have withstood five minutes of free burning. We would have lost the roof and the motor home, and had damage to neighboring houses.

Bill Burns

One neighbor said they saw somebody enter the building (on the day of the fire) with something in his hand — a flashlight and what looked like a toolbox. Ten minutes later, the neighbor heard an explosion and saw flames.

Lt. Pat Joyner

In many ways, we're just the friendly neighbor next door lending a hand to someone whose own friendly neighbors are too far away to help.

Linda Allen

When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust; he sacrifices not only his own interest, but that of his neighbor; he betrays the interest of his country.

Noah Webster

It is easier to love humanity as a whole that to love one's neighbor.

Eric Hoffer

When we got there, the building was well-involved in flame, so we went to defensive mode to protect neighboring buildings.

Maurice Luque

Some groups believe that our neighbor, the Andromeda Galaxy - also known as M31 - is the most massive galaxy in our local group. But we suspect from our early results that our Milky Way is actually the local heavyweight. We are, with RAVE, on the verge of an answer.

Martin Smith

(On television) they were only showing one place, and that's because New Orleans was the most devastated. We didn't know about our house until a neighbor told us.

Megan Edwards

They would agree to have Sue, a neighbor, come in when we weren't there. Then they would forget they agreed and they didn't want to have outside help.

Judy Mckellar

I was supposed to be collecting the mail for a neighbor next door. One day I forgot, and Dennis started holding it so it didn't pile up.

Pat Ross

The Chechen conflict is spilling into neighboring republics, escalating the process of destabilization.

Alexei Malashenko

The Aladdin will be the maximum highest and best use of the property, ... It would have been a crime for the trust to use the property to cannibalize on neighboring attractions.

Jack Sommer

Judge not thy neighbor until thou art come into his place.

Hebrew Proverb

There's a high degree of interest from the neighboring community.

Jorge Camejo

To my knowledge, I'm the only candidate who lives on the neighbor islands. The competition is probably going to be shaping up over the coming few months. It's hard to say exactly who is running.

Sen Gary Hooser

When he called his neighbor, the driver said 'they're trying to force me from the road.' That could be construed as road rage, but we are of the assumption that the individuals were known to each other.

B.d. Evans

The events prove that Israel was neither a neighbor nor a peace partner. It is no more than an enemy.

Al Aqsa

Dog cases cause such severe neighbor problems. The dog cases, they get so contentious.

Alison Tate

My neighbor hired someone to paint his front door. He's known throughout the country in his field, but it's not painting.

Lisa Hegland

We want to be a good neighbor.

Jack Mcdonald

A neighbor called them and told them their house was on fire.

Bob Brennan

I just think Cheeseburger's is bad neighbor, and they need to clean their act up and let us live in peace.

Jack Baldwin

Do not hurt your neighbor, for it is not him you wrong but yourself.

Shelby Steele

He just got up and went down the road and luckily, the neighbor brought him back to me. We put locks on the door so he can't get out now. We have them high enough that if he tried, he couldn't reach them.

Cassandra Naus

Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well - he has changed his market-cart into a chariot of the sun.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Because of higher prices, things like one-day tours to the neighbor islands have declined. Hopefully, if we begin seeing more seats and lower fares, some of that activity will come back.

Frank Haas

The body was found near the side of the house buried in a shallow grave. Apparently, a neighbor's dog or some other animal had dug it up, and that's when a neighbor found it.

Terriann Carlson

We virtually can lose a school district, which will have a financial impact on a lot of neighboring school districts, which will be a burden on the state.

Terry Link

Every single bill that a legislator introduces is important to somebody. It might not be important to you or your neighbor or your mother, but it might be important to your doctor or your plumber or your sister.

Steve Miskin

A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing.

Hesiod

It felt like a fad for 10 years, but a fad doesn't go on for 10 years. People want something new, something different from their neighbor.

Garry Garner

Get somebody that your friends, a neighbor or family uses.

Lillie Dean

A neighbor is a person who can get to your house in less than a minute and takes two hours to go back home.

O. A. Battista

Most likely the coat was sold for milk or bread or helped a neighbor.

Jody Williams

We have no information that words were exchanged between them . . . or of any prior neighbor dispute. We have no information about what Miller was doing outside. The motive is unknown.

Lt. Dennis Brugos

This will be like talking to your neighbor over the back fence.

Paul Sullivan

He's a nice man, intelligent, but he's a horrible neighbor.

Lori Smith

We are neighboring an affected country and Iran is on the route of migrating birds twice a year. Iran needs to use international help if it is to prevent bird flu.

Kamyar Dahim

That's what started the Fire Department. The members of the community were tired of their buildings burning down, so a group of people formed the department to help their neighbor, which is how many, many departments started across the nation.

Tom Cooper

Having a corporate focus on volunteerism helps us deliver on our promise to be a good neighbor.

Randy Horn

If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.

Sebastien Roch Nicolas

There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.

Alfred Adler

It's almost like borrowing something from your neighbor.

Gloria Shull

My neighbor said not to worry about it, just hang out.

Amyrose Marr

When I moved out here during the late '70s, I had a neighbor who was a farmer who asked me 'What do you produce? ... I said, well, I don't produce, I publish, but he meant, you know, 'Do you grow tomatoes?'

Robert Hicks

Apartments have changed. It's no longer what you remember in the 1960s '70s and '80s where you can hear your neighbor sneeze.

Matt Petersen

It brings outside monies to your properties. Whether it's a direct influence to your house, or that your neighbor ten blocks down got that price.

Hickory Delegal

She was one of those people you would want as a neighbor. She was always happy and upbeat. We always saw her outside joking around with people. We all got along.

Jim Nelson

CONVERSATION, n. A fair to the display of the minor mental commodities, each exhibitor being too intent upon the arrangement of his own wares to observe those of his neighbor.

Ambrose Bierce

We had a call from a neighbor that he had to run children out of the house and that there is 3-4 feet of water in the basement. Can't something be done to secure the place until the owner can be found?

John Shelton

Nobody wants any development in their back yard, even though ethanol plants are a good neighbor.

Larry Johnston

We're comfortable if our neighbor is not the same color as we are.

Janet Harrah

She's a great person, a great neighbor. She's done a whole lot with Fitzgerald's Farm.

Dan Crowley

I wanted to help my friend and neighbor Janet and see for myself how people down there are coping. I was amazed at the amount of debris and destruction still evident. It was just a little overwhelming.

Randy Young

I introduced myself to my neighbor of seven years, someone I had never spoken to. It was good for all of us.

Nick Kopeloff

[Khan] would do anything you asked him if you needed help. If he saw me digging a hole in my yard he would grab a shovel and help out. That's the kind of man he is. Just a great neighbor.

Thomas Adams

We're just being neighborly. Everybody's a neighbor.

Larry Green

He was a wonderful person, a wonderful neighbor.

Bill Perkins

During the last four months the oil sector was highly affected by the smuggling of crude oil and fuel to neighboring countries.

Motasim Hassan

Now I can drop (my daughter) off at 7:30 a.m. and go on my way to work. This is very convenient, ... If it wasn't for the program, I would have to possibly rely on a neighbor to get her on the bus.

Van Orden

I found out I was being annexed by a neighbor who got a letter about it.

Jeffrey Clark

Wal-Mart is a neighbor that's going to join other businesses already here.

Camille Lilly

Luckily, he had a very alert neighbor who was able to get a license plate number off of the vehicle.

Dan Kelso

Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for assistance.

Daniel Akaka

Be a good neighbor and be nosy. If you see something call the police. It really works. It really does.

Mike Desiderio

This is just part of our calling of being Christians. It is a way to love your neighbor in a concrete way.

John Donaghy

We're very, very shocked. This was a nice guy, a wonderful guy. You couldn't ask for a better neighbor.

Paul Vance

By the time my husband and I got there, there were paramedics, fire and the gas company. My next door neighbor -- she was out in the ambulance already.

Sharon Dias

I knew once one person had one, their friend would get one, and their neighbor would get one and it would pick up from there. Now it is off the hook, it is insane.

Brian Friedman

His mom will be his next-door neighbor.

John Gonsalves

We want to be known from the community standpoint. It's about neighbor helping neighbor.

Rose Smith

This bill is about sending a message to irresponsible dog owners, and not just jailing a bad neighbor. This bill is about ... closing a legal loophole--not merely exacting vengeance.

Larry Just

We try to help folks out when they're sick or down. It's part of being a good neighbor to help people out when they need it.

Byron Davis

We just want to make sure they're going to be a good neighbor.

Laura Leighton

Usually, the most common type of attacker looks like your next door neighbor. They are married and have a family.

Barry Tate

I had to borrow deicer from a neighbor. We were able to deice the window so he could open it so he could crawl out.

James Oliveira

There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.

Robert Stevenson

They're not freaking out, though, and I'm impressed with how neighbor is helping neighbor. I see resilience and determination.

Alan Manevitz

If the neighbor hadn't called, it would have been a different story.

Robert Erspamer

A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.

Rupert Brooke

NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient.

Ambrose Bierce

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

Marcus Aurelius

That's why we have asked neighboring administrations to increase their supervision of alcohol sales.

Ade Suharsono

We don't get into neighbor-to-neighbor problems. If you get folks focused on something else, little problems will go away.

Clark Tyler

Ask your neighbor only about things you know better yourself. Then his advice could prove valuable.

Karl Kraus

How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.

Marcus Aurelius

It's brother helping brother, neighbor helping neighbor.

John Thompson

To drive a bus a mile, it costs us more than a dollar. That's a big increase - that's over a 100-percent increase from 45-cents to a dollar, but some neighboring parishes are going up as high as a dollar and a half.

Butch Williams

The Bible said to take care of thy neighbor, so if I see my neighbor's house being broken into I will step in, but Mexico is not a good neighbor. They are breaking into our home.

Bob Masling

Frank was somewhat frustrated with the perceived lack of instant reaction by the federal government. We're from Canada. You are our greatest neighbor. You are a neighbor in need. We happen to have assets. We can very easily look after 400 people.

Dennis Mills

To us, food is not an essential issue. There are more important issues, like loving your neighbor as yourself and loving God with all your heart.

Marlene Rosenberg

However, it is necessary to bring our school start date more in line with our neighboring districts.

Betty Johnson

This is a hazard on so many levels, ... Think if you were a neighbor and were feeling down, you might look at this mess and say, gee, just one car in my yard isn't so bad. The next thing you know, the entire neighborhood looks like this.

David Perkins

There is a higher law: to love thy neighbor as thyself. And thy neighbor may not have a green card.

Richard Goodman

He's one of us. He makes you feel like he's your neighbor or your friend. Other than that he's just the greatest player in the history of the game.

Justin Leonard

Polio is not only an issue in Indonesia ... but it's an international issue. That virus, just as it came here from the African continent, could now go from here to a neighboring country and become implanted in that country if protection rates for polio were low.

C. David Heymann

I grew up watching Burns and Allen on TV. They did some amazing things on the TV show, they did surreal things. Gracie would be conspiring with her neighbor Blanche to put something over on George.

Rupert Holmes

If I wanted a loving father, a faithful husband, an honorable neighbor, and a just citizen, I would seek him among the band of Atheists.

John Tyndall

Curtiss-Wright is a good neighbor and a company that has the ability to keep these doors open and grow.

John Painter

Keep the calls coming, ... You might be saving your own home, your own car, your own property tomorrow if you do it for your neighbor today.

Ivan Johnson

Powerful Iran is the best friend of the neighboring states and the best guarantor of regional security.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

The government chose to fight their own citizens. This case points to the way the government ran the weapons complex: with complete disregard for the rights of the neighbor.

Louise Roselle

I think any storm that has the potential of impacting the city of Orlando we are concerned about, ... We are always concerned about a storm that may impact neighboring communities that could cause evacuees to come to the city of Orlando.

Buddy Dyer

What we really hope is that schools will one of their neighboring schools on this list and contact them to find out what steps they have taken to help them reach this level of achievement.

Karla Carruthers

Luna Energy is a neighbor that brings tax revenues and new jobs to our city and county.

John Strand

I got a call from a neighbor around 3 a.m. He said the island was ablaze. We came up and there it was.

Richard Cimochowski

It's simply neighbor helping out neighbor.

Chief Lester Aradi

It will be interesting to coach against him. Mike is a good friend. He was my next-door neighbor for six years. I miss him, and he'll always have a dear spot in my heart.

Vantz Singletary

The people here are so poorly informed about the oil industry. The record is clear from production in Louisiana and Texas that the oil industry is not a harmful industry, it's a good neighbor.

John Malloy

S he has a next door neighbor that is also elderly, and this person was alone and she was not able to get around really good, so she felt like she wanted to stay home so at least she could be there for the neighbor.

Charles Buckley

You should also know who you are lending your car to. We've had people who said they loaned their car a neighbor and called because they haven't been seen again. (Officers) will ask what the neighbor's name is and they have no idea what the last name is. It doesn't happen often but it does happen.

Rex Osborn

We're going to weigh all of that public opinion. We had hoped all along the casino can be a good neighbor.

Anne Swager

We want to be a good neighbor, ... There's got to be a sensible balance.

James Schmidt

I got a call from a neighbor who said there was a milky plume flowing down the river.

Karen Wagner

What we're doing is kind of expanding upon the neighbor concept.

Bill Gross

I hope there's plenty of room for everybody. We want and intend to be a good neighbor.

Susan Morganstern

Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that's not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbor. Often times it is a teacher.

Joe Manchin

We certainly want to be a good neighbor. If there is (any problem) at all, people can come talk to us.

David Eck

It was very, very quiet today. It was helped by overnight markets and neighboring markets.

Mark Julliem

If you are going to buy a car from your neighbor down the street, there is a process that goes into that.

Harry White

The aim of my visit to the region is to improve relations with neighboring countries.

Moqtada Sadr

We had a cat killed, our neighbor had a dog killed, my other neighbor had two cats killed, one neighbor had a car come crashing into their fence, and my other neighbor's mailbox was knocked over.

Karen Hendrixson

Around 30 families have moved to a neighboring village and we are now going to evacuate some 1,200 people.

Constantin Oclei

Oh, I gave some to my neighbor next door.

Ruth Mahl

They have been a good neighbor.

Gary Rosen

We didn't know where he was. We thought he probably was in the house. We're not approaching the house, we're so far back on the perimeter, but yesterday afternoon probably between 4 and 5 sometime, he'd gone to a neighbor, and the neighbor contacted ... law enforcement and then brought him in.

Phil Robinson

Come out and meet your neighbor.

Luanne Gafford

Neighboring is one of the biggest concepts in America. People want connections. And as good community developers, we should recognize what it means to create community.

Brooke Warrick

The oil industry is not a harmful industry. It's a good neighbor.

John Malloy

There was a need for more films that promote friendship between the two neighboring countries and I strongly opposed films that promoted hatred.

Manisha Koirala

I do not dislike the French from the vulgar antipathy between neighboring nations, but for their insolent and unfounded air of superiority.

Horace Walpole

It's human nature to always look at what your neighbor is doing.

Richard Wilkinson

We're losing a major neighbor and what they've given back to the community, ... These businesses move out and we get hedge funds that don't step up to the plate. It's not just tax dollars. It's a lot more.

Ann Morrison

They didn't know this neighbor, the only connection is they live on the same floor of the apartment complex.

John Hopkins

The greatest lesson I learned was to love thy neighbor, ... Too often we're fine loving our neighbor, but just not in my neighborhood.

Joseph Gentile

It puts us in a hard place, neighbor against neighbor.

Kris Weiskopf

Obviously to increase someone's marketing opportunity, he's maybe going to have to expand his globe a little bigger than down the road to his neighbor.

Jim Kelley

I'm glad you're my neighbor.

Eric Johansson

They have said that they want to be a good corporate neighbor in the community and I have no reason to believe that that won't be the case here.

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