“The father spent his time talking and thinking of religion. He proclaimed himself an agnostic and was so absorbed in destroying the ideas of God that had crept into the minds of his neighbors that he never saw God manifesting himself in the little child that, half forgotten, lived here and there on the bounty of her dead mother's relatives.” ThinkingMindChildrenLittlesIdeasMotherFatherHalfTalkingSawsForgottenNeighborManifestDestroyingAgnosticHere And ThereBountyDead Mother Book:Winesburg, Ohio Source: Winesburg, Ohio
“A vicious teacher is just a vicious teacher, as a vicious neighbor may happen to be. But a vicious mother - means that the whole world is vicious.” WorldMayMeanWholeHappensMotherTeacherNeighborWhole WorldViciousVicious Cycles Author:Simon Soloveychik
“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.” ThinkingKnowsMenHomeYoungMotherNeighborFamiliarCooksYoung Man Author:Chinua Achebe
“My parents were terrific - mother was a church organist and my father was probably the most respected person in our church outside of the minister and sometimes maybe that much. The neighbors all called him - a gentleman.” PersonsSometimesMotherFatherParentChurchNeighborMinistersGentlemanTerrific Author:Jane Pauley
“There was a four year old child whose next door neighbor was an elderly gentleman who had recently lost his wife. Upon seeing the man cry, the little boy went into the old gentleman's yard, climbed onto his lap, and just sat there. When his Mother asked what he had said to the neighbor, the little boy said, “Nothing, I just helped him cry.²” “Even after all this time the sun never says to the earth “You owe me” Look what happens with a love like that, It lights the whole sky..”” MenYearsLooksChildrenLittlesSaidWholeLightHappensEarthMotherNextLostBoysSunFourWifeSeeingDoorsSkyCryHe ManNeighborGentlemanSatFour YearsYardsLapElderlyLittle BoysNext Door Neighbors Author:Hafez
“Other people--grandparents, sisters and brothers, the mother's best friend, the next-door neighbor--get to be familiar to the baby. If the mother communicates her trust in these people, the baby will regard them as delicious novelties. Anybody the mother trusts whom the baby sees often enough partakes a bit of the presence of the mother.” PeopleIfsEnoughMotherNextBitsDoorsBrotherBabyRegardCommunicateNeighborFamiliarGrandparentBrothers And SistersDeliciousNoveltyNext Door Neighbors Book:Oneness and separateness: from infant to individual Source: Oneness and separateness: from infant to individual