NEGLECT QUOTES
quotations about neglect
Neglect is an insidious form of maltreatment. It starves the developing mind of stimulation. It denies the child information and interest about the self and others.
DAVID HOWE
Child Abuse and Neglect: Attachment, Development and Intervention
A little neglect may breed great mischief; for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of the shoe the horse was lost; for want of the horse the rider was lost--being overtaken and slain by an enemy--all for the want of care about a horse-shoe nail.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin
When loneliness is a constant state of being, it harkens back to a childhood wherein neglect and abandonment were the landscape of life.
ALEXANDRA KATEHAKIS
Mirror of Intimacy
less neglect neglect neglect neglect ...
i am the stone that kills me
KAMAU BRATHWAITE
Middle Passages
God loves children, he hates when others neglect them, and abuse them, and take them for granted. Why bring them into this world, and then act as though they are not wanted?
OSMOND CONSTANCE
God: Simple Poems to You
There is the same difference between diligence and neglect, that there is between a garden curiously kept and the sluggard's field when it was all overgrown with nettles and thorns; the one is clothed with beauty and the gracious amiableness of content and cheering loveliness; while the other hath nothing but either little smarting pungencies or else such transpiercings as rankle the flesh within.
OWEN FELTHAM
"Of Neglect", The Saturday Magazine, February 20, 1836
If you neglect the pot, it boils over and extinguishes the fire.
NIGERIAN PROVERB
Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even malice and wickedness.
GOETHE
The Sorrows of Young Werther
It cannot be when the root is neglected that what springs from it will be well ordered.
CONFUCIUS
The Wisdom of Confucius
The effects of neglect often do not leave visible scars and a child may appear to have been unharmed. Neglect may go undetected and untreated, the victims too young to speak out. Owing to the chronic nature of neglect; children may come to believe that this is the way life is, not realizing that they have been maltreated and are suffering the consequences.
MARGARET SMITH & ROWENA FONG
Children of Neglect: When No One Cares
Neglect is primarily recognized by the behavior of the child. If the child seems developmentally delayed, unhappy, withdrawn, aggressive, or is continually asking for food, there is cause for concern.
SHARON HIRSCHY & ELAINE WILKINSON
Protecting Our Children
Often has a small spark through neglect raised a great conflagration.
RUFUS
attributed, Day's Collacon
Neglect will drive a noble mind to depart for another land.
IBN MUNER
attributed, Day's Collacon
Where men or nations have broken down, it will almost invariably be found that neglect of little things was the rock on which they split.
SAMUEL SMILES
Self-help: With Illustrations of Characters, Conduct, and Perseverance
He's used to the freedom of neglect; he likes it.
SONYA HARTNETT
Golden Boys
But since We Mortals vainly try
To purchase Immortality,
It is as vain to Sigh and Grieve,
And fearing Death, neglect to Live.
ANACREON
"On Gold, to a Miser"
Joy? Disappointment? Gentle caresses? And subtle neglect?
I hope the good is more than the bad. Much more.
KAMAND KOJOURI
Love Poems
Neglect will banish love, kill a lie, and silence slander; yet it will feed a malady, nourish hatred, and fill a garden with weeds.
E. P. DAY
Day's Collacon
Oh! it is deplorable to behold neglect aiding in the triumph of decay.
JAMES LINEN
"Impressions of Jamaica", The Poetical and Prose Writings of James Linen
Professionals have great difficulty in deciding exactly what neglect is and therefore, while it is the most prevalent of child maltreatment cases, neglect is often ignored or not treated.
SHARON HIRSCHY & ELAINE WILKINSON
Protecting Our Children