#neighbours

I have no neighbours other than animals and Joshua Trees. ↗

— Don Van Vliet

#neighbours #other #than #trees

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all. ↗

— Voltaire

#books #communicate #fetch #find #fire

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours. ↗

— William Ralph Inge

#about #ancestry #common #delusion #hatred

We, in our Province, are beginning to realize and appreciate that our slowness in keeping up with our North American neighbours may well have been a blessing in disguise. ↗

— Alex Campbell

#appreciate #been #beginning #blessing #disguise

God has given such brave soldiers to this Crown that, if they do not frighten our neighbours, at least they prevent us from being frightened by them. ↗

— Elizabeth I

#brave #brave soldiers #crown #frighten #frightened

You only have to look at London, where almost half of all primary school children speak English as a second language, to see the challenges we now face as a country. This isn't fair to anyone: how can people build relationships with their neighbours if they can't even speak the same language? ↗

— Theresa May

#anyone #build #challenges #children #country

You can change friends but not neighbours. ↗

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee

#friends #neighbours #you

Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#lend #nature #neighbours #trouble #your

We have an interest in excellent relations because we are neighbours as Europeans with Russia. We are allies with the United States in the NATO framework. ↗

— Joschka Fischer

#because #europeans #excellent #framework #interest

Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit. ↗

— Abu Bakar Bashir

#arab #being #benefit #calculations #destroyed