quotations about neglect
Neglect is enough to ruin a man; a man who is in business need not commit forgery or robbery to ruin himself; he has only to neglect his business, and his ruin is certain.
ALBERT BARNES
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Epistle to the Hebrews
People disagree about what neglect is. Most agree that neglect is "failure to provide for a child's basic needs". But what are a child's basic needs? Certainly food and shelter are included, but how much and what type? Is education a basic need? Supervision is a basic need, but how much and at what ages? Medical care might be a need, but how much and how often? Are sanitation and hygiene a basic need, and what exactly do those terms mean? Some children receive baths once a day, others once a week, and in some countries, because of unhealthy water conditions, children may receive few baths in their childhood. A home may have mouse droppings and roaches, and yet the children may appear to be healthy? Is this neglect?
SHARON HIRSCHY & ELAINE WILKINSON
Protecting Our Children
Neglect is the death of friendship.
F. S. OSGOOD
attributed, Day's Collacon
Neglect is more likely to result in fatality than any other form of child maltreatment.
JULIE TAYLOR & BRIGID DANIEL
Child Neglect: Practice Issues for Health and Social Care
It is a theme for tears to feel the soft heart hardening,
The frozen breath of apathy sealing up the fountain of affection;
It is a pang, keen only to the best, to be injured well-deserving,
And slumbering Neglect is injury--Could ye not watch one hour?
When God himself complained, it was that none regarded,
And indifference bowed to the rebuke, Thou gavest Me no kiss when I came in.
MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER
"Of Neglect", Poems of King Alfred
A wise and salutary neglect.
EDMUND BURKE
Speech on the Conciliation of America
They leave us so to the way we took,
As two in whom they were proved mistaken,
That we sit sometime in the wayside nook,
With mischievous, vagrant, seraphic look,
And try if we cannot feel forsaken.
ROBERT FROST
"In Neglect"
The cold iron of neglect is sharper to a child's sensitive nature than any alteration of harshness and affection.
ANNIE EDWARDS
attributed, Day's Collacon
One the whole, emotional neglect is not usually a specific event, or series of events, but the daily atmosphere in which neglected children have to live.
JULIE TAYLOR & BRIGID DANIEL
Child Neglect: Practice Issues for Health and Social Care
Neglect of pruning does not kill the vine, but causes it to ramify immoderately, and grow wild.
WILLIAM WARBURTON
notes on King Henry V
What angels guard, no longer dare neglect,
Slighting thyself, affront not God's respect.
EDWARD YOUNG
"The Last Day"
We labour unceasingly to adorn and preserve this imaginary existence, and neglect the real.
BLAISE PASCAL
Pensées
Is it necessary that actuality is tempered and neglect is rolled. A little piece. The blame which makes a coping out of a cellar and into a curtain and behind behind a frontyard is that then. Please dust.
GERTRUDE STEIN
"A Sweet Tail (Gypsies)"
Many of us were abandoned or neglected by important people in our life. We may have concluded that the reason we weren't loved was because we were unlovable. Blaming ourselves is an understandable reaction, but an inappropriate one. If others couldn't love us, or love us in ways that worked, that's not our fault. In recovery, we're learning to separate ourselves from the behavior of others. And we're learning to take responsibility for our healing, regardless of the people around us. Just as we may have believed that we're unlovable, we can become skilled at practicing the belief that we are lovable. This new belief will improve the quality of our relationships. It will improve our most important relationship: our relationship with our self.
MELODY BEATTIE
The Language of Letting Go
Water it.
Give it plenty of sunlight.
Nurture it,
And the flower of love will
Outlive you.
Neglect it or keep dissecting it,
And its petals will quickly curl up and die.
SUZY KASSEM
Rise Up and Salute the Sun
What sand-storm kills true love: neglect alone!
WILLIAM JONATHAN NEIDIG
"The Prince of Paupers"
Negligence is the rust of the soul that corrodes through all her best resolves.
POLYCARPUS
attributed, Day's Collacon
Neglect is usually more apparent as an act of omission.
GWYTHER REES
Adolescent Neglect: Research, Policy and Practice
My worst fears are realized--my husband's neglect is occasioned by his love for another.
CHARLES DICKENS
Is She His Wife?
Because we were treated neglectfully and abusively in our young years--when we most needed self-love to be mirrored--it was difficult to hold onto.... We take up the challenge of learning to love ourselves, through our highs & our lows, when we are finding acceptance from others and when we are being closed out and rejected.
MAUREEN BRADY
Beyond Survival