Quotes About Neglect

Bea did not want a new mother. She'd hardly even seen the one she once had, except for glimpses out the window when her mother was climbing into a carriage to go off to a party. She'd been as beautiful as an angel, all sparkling and laughing in her lovely gowns, but not much use.

Give your ears, hear the sayings, Give your heart to understand them; It profits to put them in your heart; Woe to him who neglects them!

She lifted the girl's shirt, showing her ribs and the pointy bumps of her spine. They were like the bones of some animal who'd starved to death in the desert. Her flesh, the dark sand blown in thin drifts over the bones.

He could see somebody had thrown Cotton away. Somebody had thrown Jason's angel away.

A lot of times, people send me emails, and then I forget about them, or I never respond to them, or I respond to them weeks later.

In the rush to become all things to all people, the federal government has lost sight of its core responsibilities. As a result we're stuck in this frustrating paradox where Washington actually neglects things it's clearly supposed to be doing, while interfering in other areas where they are neither welcome nor authorized.

In my case, I give a lot to animal welfare because I think that's pretty neglected in America.

Too many people feel stuck in the middle - not wealthy by any measure, but doing just well enough that the social safety net isn't there for them. They feel left behind by a system that isn't listening to them and an economy that isn't rewarding them for their hard work.

America's health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness and prevention.

We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.

This country, and the West Coast, especially, is bad at preserving any cultural legacy.

It is time to end the western policy of malign neglect. It is in the interest of the whole world to help tackle the actual grievances in Palestine, Kashmir, and in central and southern Iraq, and to help the region out of its economic backwardness.

We are a jingoistic nation - whether it is politics or films or whatever. We can posthumously shower praises and accolades on people, but when they are alive, we don't bother about them. A classic case is Om Puri.

Half a million women die each year around the world in pregnancy. It's not biology that kills them so much as neglect.

Our focus is to continue to pioneer branded entertainment online and consider opportunities as they come. We're smart enough to know that we can't bite the hand that feeds us and neglect our Internet presence.

Extinction isn't pretty, especially when you know it's coming and do nothing about it.

My sister gave birth to her daughter in London; for over a year, her husband didn't even ask about her or support her or even see his daughters.

My dear, I don't give a damn.

Really, I could care less if there's a Second Decade record.

If those communities are left to decay, this city will decay.

The Roundhouse was a complete shell. It was absolutely empty, lying derelict for years.

Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil.

I've forgotten the birthdays of everyone close to me. I have forgotten to pay bills, file tax returns on time, go to meetings, and, every week, I forget to put the bins out. But I have never forgotten I want my lunch.

I just want to make a point that it's not just great teachers that sometimes shape your life. Sometimes it's the absence of great teachers that shapes your life and being ignored can be just as good for a person as being lauded.