Quotes About Neglect

There is one thing Satan cannot stand and that is to be ignored and slighted. He lives on attention and dies of neglect.

Plants won't wither if we always water them. So it's, also, with the memories. It's good, when they're pleasant, but if they aren't, then it's madness.

If a mother has an unhealthy need to dominate her children-which she demonstrates by bullying, terrifying, neglecting, suffocating, indulging, humiliating, overprotecting or abusing them- those children must come to the recognition that such treatment is wrong in order to begin the long process of recovery and ultimate understanding.

Parental neglect even in intact families, can have a shattering effect on how daughters- even those with loving mothers- feel about men.

A spare tyre is something that you don't check until you have a punctured one.

We were sent as God's messenger on earth, but unfortunately we have forgotten the message.

If I'm dying from anything, it's from indifference and red tape.

I Feel Sorry for the Garden No one is thinking about the flowers No one is thinking about the fish No one wants to believe that the garden is dying that the garden's heart has swollen under the sun that the garden is slowly forgetting its green moments …

There was something wrong with this man. He didn't call me Toby. He didn't even talk to us. I thought of my first mother, the very last time I saw her, escaping the Yard because she couldn't live with humans, not even with someone as loving as Senora. But the man didn't love us at all.

For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?

My dad's full of encouragement and support. It just feels like abandonment and neglect.

never a pot hole filled

Al Hickey: [following the final shootout] Nobody came... nobody cares. It's still not about anything. Frank Boggs: Yeah, you told me.

The soul of him who has education is whole and perfect and escapes the worst disease, but, if a man's education be neglected, he walks lamely through life and returns good for nothing to the world below.

If everything belongs to everybody, nobody will take care of anything.

A gang of lads, morally neglected, and in that respect inferior to the intermediate class, but in good physical training, attack and throw another set, trained neither physically nor morally, and make off with their food and their dainty clothes. What more is called for than a laugh?

Unfortunately, now that Langston has a boyfriend again, he has forgotten all about me.

Self love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self neglect.

When I see those sad, abused and neglected animals on those commercials I feel despair for the human race. Too many people repay loyalty with faithlessness and give no thought to their own final hours when the might have to ask another to grant them the mercy that they withheld from those who trusted them.

Any town can die without actually drying up and blowing away. It can be as dead as a ghost town even with people still living in it." Gazing

Whatever is happening, it is none of Katie's concern.

stink of urine and feces. Four or five of the sleepers, unable to rise

He had heard that from others but hadn't recognized the truth until his own father had gone. Maybe if he hadn't been so involved with Angie he would have seen to his father's business affairs sooner and they wouldn't be in this mess now. What did he know about all these legal matters? Darn little. His father had known he was close to death

No one realized that, being left out in the cold, I was also very much in the dark.