Eddie Murphy Quotes

To call the police is a really big deal because you don't snitch - that's the culture you grow up in.

When fear knocks, to let faith answer the door.

If everyone sweeps before his own front door, then the street is clean.

There's a great universe just next door.

I was born on the kitchen table. We were so poor my mother couldn't afford to have me; the lady next door gave birth to me.

I'm from my hood, and everybody knows me in my neighborhood, and that's cool, I can do what I want over there, but in other people's neighborhoods, I can't.

If you were to hire household staff to cook, clean, drive, stoke the fire, and answer the door, can you imagine suggesting that they not talk to each other, not see what each other is doing, not coordinate their functions?

I lived in a house in the East Bronx, a totally Jewish neighborhood on East 172nd Street. You didn't see Christians much, although one lived next door. We thought they were kind of a minority.

Robert wondered if any of Harvard's revered Egyptologists had ever knocked on the door of a pyramid and expected an answer.

I have heard women complain about men holding doors for them,, as if it is inherently offensive and implies that they are weak. ... I would hold a door for anyone. ... It has to do with noticing our fellow human beings and saying, "I recognize that you're on this planet, and I don't want a door hitting you in the face.

If you want to see the girl next door, go next door.

...I suddenly realized what small towns are. They are places where you grow up with the peculiar-you live next door to the strange and the unlikely for so long that everything and everyone become commonplace.

When you knock on the door of opportunity, do not be surprised that it is Work who will answer.

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.

You might as well answer the door, my child, the truth is furiously knocking.

What are Fred and I? Next door neighbors?

Answers are closed rooms; and questions are open doors that invite us in.

When you hear fear knocking on the door, most of the time when you answer it there’s nothing there. It’s just you holding yourself back.

The great contributors in life are those who, though afraid of the knock at the door, still answer it.

Become familiar with your home, but know also about your neighbors. The young man who never went anywhere thinks his mother is the greatest cook.

Just when I nearly had the answer, I forgot the question.

If you have to ask then you don't deserve an answer.

The inescapable truth is: government does not have all the answers. In too many instances, government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

God then does not profess to answer in Scripture all the questions that we, in our boundless curiosity, would like to ask about Scripture. He tells us merely as much as He sees we need to know as a basis for our life of faith.

There's no need to legalize gay marriage. I have plenty of gay friends who are committed couples; some of them call themselves married, some don't, but their friends treat them as married. Anybody who doesn't like it just doesn't hang out with them.