Quotes About Neglect

When a man spends his relief checks on green whiskey his children have a way of crying from hunger pains.

There are but three events which concern man: birth, life and death. They are unconscious of their birth, they suffer when they die, and they neglect to live.

Sloth is sluggishness of the mind which neglects to begin good...it is evil in its effect, if it so oppresses man as to draw him away entirely from good deeds.

Advertising is a business within a business and the man who neglects it will soon find himself with a business without a business.

Nothing again. No one is listening. No one is waiting to hear the kicking of a man above. It is unexpected. You have no ears for someone like me.

The land was then covered with morasses and forests, which spread to a boundless extent, whenever man has ceased to exercise his dominion over the earth.

Not only does the world scarcely know who the Latin American man is, the world has barely cared.

He was a man too busy to flush toilets.

Greatest sin of man kind: neglect to use his greatest asset.

It is common to forget a man and slight him if his good will cannot help you.

A man came up to me the other day and said he hadn't had a bite in weeks. So you know what I did? I walked by him like he didn't even exist.

Men who neglect Christ, and try to win heaven through moralities, are like sailors at sea in a storm, who pull, some at the bowsprit and some at the mainmast, but never touch the helm.

Men there are, who having quite done with the world, all its merely worldly contents are become so far indifferent, that they carelittle of what mere worldly imprudence they may be guilty.

Her daddy drank all day and mommy did drugs, never wanted to play or give kisses and hugs. She'd watch the TV and sit there on the couch, while her mom fell asleep and her daddy went out.

Venus de Milo's mother, who once said to Venus, You never call me. Can't you pick up a phone? Never got a dinner!

The more love I craved, the more distant and abusive he grew. The role I longed to play was never written into Ryan's script: daughter.

When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence.

When you feel neglected, think of the female salmon, who lays 3, 000, 000 eggs but no one remembers her on Mother's Day

Never put off until tomorrow what you can put off forever.

Wildlife of the world is disappearing, not because of a malicious and deliberate policy of slaughter and extermination, but simply because of a general and widespread ignorance and neglect.

The Amazon is still burning; we just don't hear the smoke detectors anymore.

We always talk about our feelings, neglecting the important matters that have to be look over.

I've decided the secret of parenting is benevolent neglect.I put my family last. Because if you don't, if you put them first, they never thank you. You'll never get a word of thanks from them.

When a boy feels as if no one cares about him, or as if he will never amount to anything, he truly believes it doesn't matter what he does.