Quotes About Neglect

Don't water your weeds.

The corpse looks to me like a suit left behind.

The cramped atmosphere of neglect oppressed Phatik so much that he felt that he could hardly breathe.

For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it's a pity we use it so little.

Everyone has these rooms if they'd only realize it. And the most important thing is to find out what a room's trouble is. Usually, it is simply neglect, physical or social.

So long as the most vulnerable people in our population are consigned to places that the rest of us will always shun and flee and view with fear, I am afraid that educational denial, medical and economic devastation, and aesthetic degradation will be inevitable.

My father never really encouraged me or even took an interest after I walked away from the family business. No one did except my mother and my grandfather. To be truthful, I cannot remember one meaningful conversation I had with my father.

I haven't watched one second of 'First Take' since I walked off that set.

Scott Walker has repeatedly failed to address our crumbling bridges and highways, which rank as some of the worst in the country, forcing communities to tax themselves even more to pay for basic road maintenance.

I couldn't be bothered with the whole shaving-every-couple-of-days routine.

I don't think people care what I had for breakfast.

I lose things all the time. I once left my mother's ashes at a bus stop!

As a former teacher, it pains me to watch such an essential and rewarding profession suffer due to government neglect.

If the market is left to sort matters out, social injustice will be heightened and suffering in the community will grow with the neglect the market fosters.

I don't spend a bunch of money on jewelry or sunglasses, because I lose them a lot.

It's the little things that find us out, the little things we refuse to do in order to avoid doing the big things that can save us.

Irresponsibility is part of my invisibility; any way you face it, it is a denial. But to whom can I be responsible, and why should I be, when you refuse to see me?

Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

The loss of something that is never thought of, felt, or sought for when lost is not a loss at all.

We earth men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things.

Through neglect, ignorance, or inability, the new intellectual Borgias cram hairballs down our throats and refuse us the convulsion that could make us well. They have forgotten, if they ever knew, the ancient knowledge that only by being truly sick can one regain health. Even beasts know when it is good and proper to throw up. Teach me how to be sick then, in the right time and place, so that I may again walk in the fields and with the wise and smiling dogs know enough to chew sweet grass.

The old man looked as if he had not been out of the house in years. He and the white plaster walls inside were much the same. There was white in the flesh of his mouth and his cheeks and his hair was white and his eyes had faded, with white in the vague blueness there.

Why don't you ever whip me? she pouted one night. Because I haven't the time, he snapped at her impatiently. I haven't the time. Don't you know there's a parade going on?

NYers are cruel enough to neglect a bond due only to trackwork on the L.