“Pioneers need good neighbors.”

Source: Farmer in the Sky (1950), Chapter 14, “Land of My Own” (p. 147)

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Pioneers need good neighbors." by Robert A. Heinlein?
Robert A. Heinlein photo
Robert A. Heinlein 557
American science fiction author 1907–1988

Related quotes

Martin Luther photo

“God does not need your good works, but your neighbor does.”

Martin Luther (1483–1546) seminal figure in Protestant Reformation
Robert Frost photo
Ralph Waldo Emerson photo

“Nor knowest thou what argument
Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent.
All are needed by each one;
Nothing is fair or good alone.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

Each and All
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Variant: Nor knowest thou what argument
Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent.
All are needed by each one;
Nothing is fair or good alone.

Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj photo

“We have two big neighbors, and, of course, we are really striving to maintain neighborly good relations with our two neighbors. As well, we want to have good relations with other nations. All those other nations we call our third neighbor.”

Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj (1963) Mongolian politician

Source: "Locked Between Two Large Neighbors, Mongolia Seeks to Connect With the World" in IPI Global Observatory https://theglobalobservatory.org/2013/10/locked-between-two-large-neighbors-mongolia-seeks-to-connect-with-the-world/ (4 October 2013)
Context: This is the concept after 1990.

Felix Frankfurter photo

“If nowhere else, in the relation between Church and State, "good fences make good neighbors."”

Felix Frankfurter (1882–1965) American judge

McCollum v. Board of Education, 333 U.S. 203, 232 (1948).
Judicial opinions

Hesiod photo

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

Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 346.

Mandy Patinkin photo

“If we can't keep our Palestinian neighbors and Muslim neighbors alive with good water and fresh air, we'll never get them to the peace table.”

Mandy Patinkin (1952) American actor and tenor singer

Jewcy, "What makes Mandy Patinkin spin his wheels" http://www.jewsweek.com/bin/en.jsp?enDispWho=Article%5El1739&enPage=BlankPage&enDisplay=view&enDispWhat=object&enVersion=0&enZone=Articles

Robert Fulghum photo

“And good neighbors make a huge difference in the quality of life. I agree.”

Source: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

“The good relations that must always exist between neighboring countries will be restored.”

Eduardo de Castro (1907–1955) Filipino actor and film director

Source: Eduardo de Castro (2021) cited in " Melilla Authorities Hope for Reopening of Borders With Morocco in 2022 https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2021/12/346225/melilla-authorities-hope-for-reopening-of-borders-with-morocco-in-2022" on Morocco World News, 27 December 2021.
Context: border opening between Melilla and Morocco after COVID-19 lockdown

Ernesto Che Guevara photo

“Far more important than a good remuneration is the pride of serving one's neighbor.”

Ernesto Che Guevara (1928–1967) Argentine Marxist revolutionary

On Revolutionary Medicine (1960)

Related topics