Quotes About Neglect

They could hang around all day and nobody paid them any mind because society has trained itself not to see the poor and the destitute. That way, we don't have to think about how the richest society on earth allows so many of its citizens to live in the streets like stray dogs.

la nueva forma de incuria es conservarlo todo.

It's actually quite criminal how 'The Wire' was systematically ignored.

It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.

When it comes to power, God Himself is the power. God often uses foolish things to confound the wise. That is why people like me will ever be grateful to God. In terms of knowledge, education and name, I am nowhere - a neglected stone.

The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.

It is a fearful mistake for us to neglect the study of the Bible to investigate theories that are misleading, diverting minds from the words of Christ to fallacies of human production.

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.

When you're old nobody touches you nobody listens to you—not in this bloody country.so that's what I do. I touch and I listen.

Neighborhood grocery stores, coal yards, gas stations, cheap taverns, big old rundown houses, a few churches with blank embarrassed faces.

Johnny couldn't read ... for the simple reason that nobody ever showed him how.

We had a kettle: we let it leak: Our not repairing it made it worse. We haven't had any tea for a week.... The bottom is out of the Universe!

Apathy, or lethargy, or a combination of the two, soon casts a spell over everything and the most traumatic events are quickly forgotten.

To the modern politician and planner, men are the flies of a summer, oblivious of their past, reckless of their future.

Britannia's big enough to count, but remote enough not to matter.

It is strange how, once graves are broken and overgrown in this way, then the people in them are truly dead. The Indian Christian graves at the front of the cemetery, which are still kept up by relatives, seem by contrast strangely alive, contemporary

No relatives, no friends, nobody. Doesn't that seem strange to you? Someone disappears and no one gives a damn?

And concerning anything in this society involved in helping Negroes, the federal government shows an inability to function. But it can function in South Vietnam, in the Congo, in Berlin, and in other places where it has no business. But it can't function in Mississippi.

Está cerca que tú te olvides de todo y también lo está que todos te olviden.

Roads with the most traffic get widened. The ones that are rarely used fall into disrepair.

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance. —KURT VONNEGUT JR.

I am like a room where things once happened and now nothing does, except the pollen of the weeds that grow up outside the window, blowing in as dust across the floor.