Neighborhood Relationships Quotes

People, wherever they are, can make a community.

Just looking at society as a whole, there are a lot of different things that we are not doing as a group to make sure we are close. Everything is in transit. People are moving from place to place. You can have a neighbor you live next to for five years and never speak to, and nobody has a problem with that.

We still have community, but we don't seem to have local community. Even in a small town where you know your neighbors and your mother's down the street, they're not in arm's length.

In fact, I told our dear friends, the Burrell boys, five boys lived next door to us. "Why, we don't see your dad anymore?" "Oh, yeah. Yeah. He" - I lied. I said, "He comes home at night when you guys are in bed. He gets us up and we play." I said it so much that I started to believe it myself, you know?

The local community is very important in one's life; the feelings of identification with a place and people.

Truly we work and live on a streetful of splendid people, whom we are to love and serve even if they are uninterested in us!

There's nineteen men livin' in my neighborhood, Eighteen of them are fools and the one ain't no doggone good.

I've been a New Yorker for ten years, and the only people who are nice to us turn out to be Moonies.

I live right in front of my daughter. I have a little house right in front of her because I can stay in touch. It's like a little commune, and it's very nice, because you can be close. I can see my granddaughter. I live very close to my brother, too, and my son. We're a very close family.

We all think we are connected to the world now, but we are not talking to our neighbours any more.

The personal contact is a personal thing. The fact that some people don't know their neighbors, I don't think that technology is at fault. You don't lose anything with technology. You gain other avenues of understanding.

I live a very wonderful life centered in my home and community. We're real involved with the school.

It used to be that you knew your neighbors and maybe your coworkers - the people in your physical vicinity.

The words and sentences you take into your body from books are no less sacred and healing than communion. Surely at least one such person lives in your zip code.