Quotes About Neglect

Her parents had basically abdicated their roles as guardians and she was building a bomb. In order to kill a poodle.

If they have money enough for a war, why don't they repair the bridge across the Agri which has been down for four years without anyone moving a finger to fix it? They might make a dam or provide us with more fountains, or plant young trees instead of cutting down the few that are left. We've plenty of land right here, but nothing to go with it.

Foster homes are often where kids go to die. It is time to acknowledge that when the state "fixes problems," their policies can result in the blood of the innocent dripping on the floor.

Lack of attention from Daddy made me think less of me and not less of him.

Although the handover report is crucial to ensuring patient safety and continuity of care, it is surprising that most training programs neglect to focus on or develop this skill.

Por encima de aquel cansancio y de aquella podredumbre se levantaba la luz de la luna. No había más que mirar al cielo para verla. Abajo, en los callejones, se olvidaba una de ella...

Forgetting means remembering at an inconvenient time.

I was a very lonley child and it's funny but the first word that comes to my head is "starved". I felt starved of affection, starved of love and I felt that it wasn't OK to ask for it. Maybe there was a sense that if I deserved it, it would be there. There must be something I'd done which meant I didn't deserve it.

in some sense, she ignored her physical self, as if her body were merely something impersonal vehicle for moving around in. She seemed not to notice or care much what she wore or what she looked like.

So little goes with the body of a man. So much is left behind.

Nicht gesehen, nicht erkannt zu werden, unsichtbar zu sein für andere, ist wirklich die existentiellste Form der Missachtung.

A surprising number of owners never touch the horses they own. Some, like Mrs. Benson, are afraid of them.

This lawn hasn't been mowed all summer, and it's August

You could see that it only wanted some attention to be beautiful again.

My life is like a lone, forgotten Q-Tip in the second-to-last drawer.

Mike Nichols used to say we were two flowers, no gardener. No one was minding the relationship.

Excuse me while I jot that down in my Big Blue Book of Who Gives a Shit?

When a white man sees persons of his own race tending downward to a level of disgrace he does not rest until he works out some plan to lift such unfortunates to higher ground; but the Negro forgets the delinquents of his race and goes his way to feather his own nest, as he has done in leaving the masses in the popular churches.

No thought was given to the history of Africa except so far as it had been a field of exploitation for the Caucasian. You might study the history as it was offered in our system from the elementary school throughout the university, and you would never hear Africa mentioned except in the negative.

At that time men went off to school to prepare themselves for the uplift of a downtrodden people. In our time too many Negroes go to school to memorize certain facts to pass examinations for jobs. After they obtain these positions they pay little attention to humanity. This attitude of the "educated Negro" toward the masses results partly from the general trend of all persons toward selfishness,

It is an injustice to the Negro, however, to mis-educate him and suffer his manners to be corrupted from infancy unto old age and then blame him for making the mistakes which such guidance necessitates.

If no one cares for you at all, do you even really exist?

For want of a nail the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost.

Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.