Quotes About Neglect

He [my father] wasn't as bad towards me as he was to mum. Just absent.

The world was quickly forgetting us. And there was little news to report.

I began to think the damage to our country, to us even, went so deep now that it would never fully be repaired. I realised the worst damage wasn't the bombed buildings, the burnt-out cars, the shattered windows. It wasn't even the neglected farms and the holes in the fences and the crops gone to seed. It was the damage deep inside us. Words like spirit and soul started to mean more to me now.

He said that we had forgotten the clowns, who now performed only in prisons and insane asylums. The implication was that this was a bad thing.

This house didn't feel like poverty, just like a house owned by white people who'd stopped caring.

I must bring you back again to my mother, with whom in these years of childhood I have been but little acquainted. She hated children; their noise and prattle and monkey tricks threw her into hysterics. For a few minutes after dinner, I was sometimes admitted, hushed to silence with a profusion of sweetmeats, and dismissed with a kiss or a frown, just as the avocations and pleasures of the day happened to fix her disposition.

The place gave out a look of hollow desuetude, as though its desertion would last forever.

There's something about her," Caire said in a low voice. "She cares for everyone about her, yet neglects herself. I want to be the one who cares for her.

There had never been anyone at all to whom she came first.

I did not feel that I mattered.

That out of sight is out of mind is true of most we leave behind

The strange life of a coaster - even though its right there, people conveniently choose to ignore it.

Ah siz erkekler! Elinize silah geçti?inde kad?nlar?n?z? unutursunuz.

Oysa gezip dolaÅŸt???m yerlerde gördüm: BeÅŸ kuruÅŸunu sokaÄŸa atmak istemeyen ayd?nlar ÅŸehir kulüplerinde, öÄŸretmen derneklerinde, avc? kulüplerinde içkiyle, kumarla, iÅŸe yaramaz pis dedikodularla zamanlar?n? öldürüyor, uyuÅŸukluk, uyuntuluk içinde yavaÅŸ yavaÅŸ intihar ediyorlar. Yurdumuz için bundan daha büyük ziyanl?k düÅŸünülemez.

I ain't in the state of mind where I give a darn.

Native women and girls experience violence at far higher rates than any other female population in the country - a crisis that has devastated our communities and has been neglected for too long.

I don't pay attention to the ratings.

It's hard to think what should make your blood boil more - what happened to Billy Ray or what didn't happen to those who abused him. It's something we can't ignore.

A lot of its readers are of an age where they forget to cancel.

The economy is not governed with the bottom half in mind.

My worst habit is my untidiness. It bewilders my family, the degree to which I can create absolute chaos around me.

Without the world noticing, the locusts of common, criminal violence are right now ravaging the lives and dreams of billions of our poorest neighbors.

Spaceflight will never tolerate carelessness, incapacity, and neglect.

You Fathers and you Mothers, let me add, However many children you have had, Yours is the duty of their supervision As long as they are bound by your decision. Beware lest the example you present Or your neglect in giving chastisement Cause them to perish; otherwise I fear, If they should do so, you will pay it dear.