Neighbourhood Quotes

“And then one day you realise that if you want to be rich, you'd have to give away almost everything you own.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Social networking platforms drove man closer to those in neighboring continents, while driving him further apart from those in his neighborhood.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“It was lonely for a day or so until one morning some man , more recently arrived than I, stopped me on the road.


'How do you get to West Egg village?' he asked helplessly.

I told him. Ans as I walked on I was lonely no longer. I was a guide, a pathfinder, an original settler. He has casually conferred on me the freedom of the neighborhood.”
― F Scott Fitzgerald

“My neighbourhood has been filled with arts, songs, and dance.
The gipsy boys were playing guitars and fiddles
Craving emotions at the gates of our blurry days.
The gipsy girls taught us how to shift graciously
Within music charm, depicting wonderful stories
All through ideas and emotions.
Their colourful skirts rounding circles in delight
Brought love from the gods
Straight in our hearts.”
― Simona Prilogan, Love is Young: Poems

“Now Miss Mapp's social dictatorship among the ladies of Tilling had long been paramount, but every now and then signs of rebellious upheavals showed themselves. By virtue of her commanding personality these had never assumed really serious proportions, for Diva, who was generally the leader in these uprisings, had not the same moral massiveness. But now when Elizabeth was so exceedingly superior, the fumes of Bolshevism mounted swiftly to Diva's head. Moreover, the sight of this puzzling male impersonator, old, wrinkled, and moustached, had kindled to a greater heat her desire to know her and learn what it felt like to be Romeo on the music-hall stage and, after years of that delirious existence, to subside into a bath-chair and Suntrap and Tilling. What a wonderful life! . . . And behind all this there was a vague notion that Elizabeth had got her information in some clandestine manner and had muddled it. For all her clear-headedness and force Elizabeth did sometimes make a muddle and it would be sweeter than honey and the honeycomb to catch her out. So in a state of brooding resentment Diva went home to lunch and concentrated on how to get even with Elizabeth.”
― E.F. Benson, Miss Mapp

“Most people do not mind having a house that is smaller and/or a car that is cheaper than their neighbours’, as long as they each earn and have more money than their neighbours, and, equally important, their neighbours know that.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Truly in the short term, there tends to be no consequences to our act of irresponsibility. However in the long run most of those kids we refused to pay attention to are now grown ups and are the fearful nocturnal visitors with weapons attacking the same neighbourhood, raping our daughters and wives, maiming our sons and husbands, turning our lives into a nightmare. Our response? Another blame game.”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Most of us are so used to living amidst the noise of modern life that we have forgotten the value of silence. Imagine that you switch off all the fans and ACs at your home. You can now hear the slightest sound of the horn from a vehicle plying on the road, or a conversation between people or the crying of a child in your neighbourhood. When it is night and the silence is deep, you can hear the ticking of your clock. When the silence is even deeper, you can even hear the vibrations of the universe and the beating of your own heart.”
― Awdhesh Singh, 31 Ways to Happiness

“The Umbrella

Ion Bulbuk has bought an umbrella.
“Knock-knock” – it is a neighbour at the door.
“It is going to rain, Ion. Give me your umbrella, please.”
“It is not in the house,” lied Bulbuk.
It rains…
Bulbuk is walking wet in the yard, for the neighbour to see that the umbrella is not at home. But the neighbour is not watching.
He went in the village for his business.”
― Spiridon Vangheli

“I believe this; "When you have a needy person in your neighbourhood, it's an opportunity for you to become a wealthy and healthy person!" Giving time is blessing time!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365

“Consider a situation where we refuse to pay attention to the less fortunate people in our neighbourhoods. If every single person in the elite of our society will take care of at least one child, most of the street kids would be taken care of. Yet, we act as if it is none of our business.”
― Sunday Adelaja

“There is no longer a neighbourhood in our neighbourhood. Our neighbourhood has moved into the big blue notebook filled with stories and ghosts, sometimes in Nadia’s handwriting, sometimes in mine, and sometimes in Baydaa’s.”
― Shahad Al Rawi, The Baghdad Clock

“if a city is designed in a way that makes a long drive to work necessary, we harm the social health of that city. If a lot of people cycle, it's probably an indication that you live in a healthy neighbourhood.”
― Meik Wiking, The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well

“We thrive on our sense of belonging to families, neighbourhoods and all kinds of groups and communities. We utterly depend upon our social connections for our emotional and physical security, for our sense of well-being, being accepted and taken seriously. [p57]”
― Hugh Mackay, The Kindness Revolution: How we can restore hope, rebuild trust and inspire optimism

“The neighbourhood is a social construct that enables people to live, work and play together in close quarters with a feeling of engagement and security beyond their existence as individuals. (...) a sense of scale and community that is manageable, more village-like than urban. The most attractive neighbourhoods [are] the ones where there’s a palpable sense of an open, rather than closed community. Being a good neighbour is not about watching from behind your curtains and reporting any suspected misdemeanour to the police - it’s about inhabiting your neighbourhood beyond the curtains, bringing life to your street with open arms, not closed minds.”
― Hugo Macdonald, How to Live in the City

“Kagame's Rwanda is the same Netanyahu's Israel we see today, both leaders are hiding behind the cloak of genocide while inflicting the same calamities upon their neighbours who welcomed them with open hands.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo