Quotes About Neglect

Dr. Jasper didn't care if they got their checkups, their medications.

The state of some of our roads is a matter of national embarrassment.

I'm an acoustic guitar owner - in the sense that I own them, and they sit at my house, and I never play them.

Again, the truth of the matter is we haven't paid that much attention to high school accountability.

I never ever paid attention to any election.

I like to read in my own house, in any of the rooms I always mean to paint or otherwise improve and never do. Every detail is so familiar to me that it makes almost no claim on my attention.

I can see how paperwork and foolishness can destroy something.

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

My wife is married to a part-time husband. That's hard to do. The kids get the short end of the stick, too.

The United States particularly abandoned Liberia after the end of the Cold War.

The reason he could do none of the necessary things to take care of himself, on the few occasions when he thought of them, was that he was preoccupied elsewhere.

But fame is theirs - and future days On pillar'd brass shall tell their praise; Shall tell - when cold neglect is dead - "These for their country fought and bled."

Or, put another way, nothing evades our attention as persistently as that which we take for granted. That's

Kottbusser Tor was the kind of area that had worn about as well as a music-hall poster, and Admiralstrasse, Number 43 was the kind of place where the rats wore ear-plugs and the cockroaches had nasty coughs.

Most of the time he didn't even bother to look back at the boy struggling along behind him on his weary pony. He just tossed words over his shoulder and expected Ansel to catch them.

The present winter is worth an age if rightly employed, but if lost or neglected, the whole continent will partake of the misfortune; and there is no punishment which that man will not deserve, be he who, or what, or where he will, that may be the means of sacrificing a season so precious and useful.

No one looks up. No one pauses. No one even questions. Easy as falling off a log. I

John Boozman has been traveling the world, making 129 visits to 53 countries during his time in Washington, and ignoring the real problems hardworking Arkansans are facing every single day. That is unacceptable.

You know, Equal Interest played at the Bell Atlantic Jazz Festival Awards and not one musician from that category was even thought of. Even thought of! The idea, that here's this vital energy, and that element doesn't even know it exists!

I am interested in people living in the margins of society, and I do have a mission to tell the stories of women of colour in particular. I feel we've been present throughout history, but our voices have been neglected.

A child rightly trained may be a world-wide blessing, with an influence reaching onward to eternal years. But a neglected or misdirected directed child may live to blight and blast mankind, and leave influences of evil which shall roll on in increasing volume till they plunge into the gulf of eternal perdition.

Even though we were selling more records than a lot of pop acts, we were being treated like the redheaded stepchildren.

He is mad about being small when you were big, but no, that's not it, he is mad about being helpless when you were powerful, but no, not that either, he is mad about being contingent when you were necessary, not quite it, he is insane because when he loved you, you didn't notice. DONALD BARTHELME, THE DEAD FATHER

How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?