Quotes About Neglect

Yes, I see the Church as the body of Christ. But, oh! How we have blemished and scarred that body through social neglect and through fear of being nonconformists.

There is the fear that you somehow neglected to say what was really yours to say.

You ask me why I haven't talked to you; well maybe it's because you slowly pushed me out of your life. I'm glad you're finally noticing.

Whenever we give up, leave behind, and forget too much, there is always the danger that the things we have neglected will return with added force.

Oh. Dishes are dirty? never mind, I prefer starving.

I'm afraid the only day you'll care about me is when I'm not around to hear you say it

I'm tired of being last to everyone I care about.

Much that for us is fraught with with happiness or misery, remains almost unnoticed by the rest of the world.

je m'en croyais la possession entièrement assurée, que j'avais négligé d'en calculer la valeur, ce qui faisait qu'il me paraissait forcément inférieur à des plaisirs, si petits qu'ils fussent, mais que, cherchant à les imaginer, j'évaluais.

The federal government is partly at fault for the many state exemptions permitting the medical neglect of children. From 1974 to 1983, the states were required to enact such exemptions to qualify for federal funding related to children.109 This federal law was the result of Christian Scientists in positions of power in the Nixon Administration.

My mother was a narcissist who'd never wanted me and didn't even particularly like, let alone love, me.

A wrong-doer is often a man that has left something undone, not always he that has done something.

We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories.

As for Frank—who cares?

Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.

My dear, I don't give a damn.

I wish I could care what you do or where you go but I can't... My dear, I don't give a damn.

Oz really isn't so terrible, Judy. It's just that our parents always ignored us, so he started going around with people who made him feel important. They were spreading hate and used him just as they used me.

The memory of most men is an abandoned cemetery where lie, unsung and unhonored, the dead whom they have ceased to cherish. Any lasting grief is reproof to their neglect.

Notre grande erreur est d'essayer d'obtenir de chacun en particulier les vertus qu'il n'a pas, et de négliger de cultiver celles qu'il possède.

The Shriver Report reveals this quiet reality: The people who we expect to raise us, care for us, and work to support us are too often left unsupported and uncared for.

No one checked to see if I had a place to live or food to eat, and at 14, I found myself basically on my own.

Condiments are like old friends - highly thought of, but often taken for granted.

Not responding is a response - we are equally responsible for what we don't do.