Neglected Quotations

I write about people who are usually damaged or neglected by society finding each other and forming relationships that are quite extraordinary and in some cases life-saving. I've had a few of those relationships, which I value highly.

I like to give a voice to others, especially things neglected or despised.

Something often neglected in popular accounts of the Wild West is the extent to which its dramas were colored by the politics and personal resentments left by the Civil War.

My youngest brother and I went on a ten-day canoe trip in Bowron Provincial Park in British Columbia years ago. Believe it or not, we took only granola, thinking we'd be eating a lot of lake trout. Well, we neglected to bring along a net, and our fishing line was only 8-lb. test.

I turned to the novel, an artistic form which had in former days been neglected and had thus acquired a bad reputation, but which during the nineteenth century had developed and elevated itself to the ranks occupied by drama and the ancient epic.

The one thing that is sort of sneered at and not really believed is bisexuality. Any bisexual man is just seen as a closeted gay man. That shows how narrow-minded people are. The other thing that's totally neglected and which nobody approves of is celibacy. People again assume that you're just repressing something.

We have for a long time neglected our children. They are our richest treasure. We must give them time, attention and the love of our pure, unselfish hearts.

My brother often complains to me about the 'angry Asian male' in the United States. As a female, I haven't encountered this, but Asian-American men are angry. They're angry because, for so many years, they've been neglected as sex symbols. Asian women have it much easier, I think; we're accepted into various circles.

In France, a woman may forget that she is neither young nor handsome; for the absence of these claims to attention does not expose her to be neglected by the male sex.

You can be a dynamic actor, but could never be a star if you never spend time with the media. That's something that I neglected to do.

Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.

Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot

The president's budget proposals have neglected water infrastructure.

Many foreclosed homes are neglected or abandoned, as legal proceedings or other factors delay their resale. Deteriorating or vacant properties can, in turn, directly affect the quality of life in a neighborhood, for example, by leading to increases in vandalism or crime.

She was trusted and valued by her father, loved and courted by all dogs, cats, children, and poor people, and slighted and neglected by everybody else.

We used to say poor people had lousy genes. Then we decided that wasn't OK, but we transferred the prejudice to upbringing. We said, 'You were neglected as a child, so you'll never make it.' That's just as pernicious.

I quit college and neglected to tell my dad.

My parents just neglected me, I wasn't abused or anything.

But you know the thing that I thing oftentimes gets ignored and neglected is there was 10 or 12 years of life before I met Amy and before she met me, where you know, whatever happened was probably going to happen some day.

Sin is, somehow, at the root of all human misery. Sin is what keeps us from God and from life. It is in the face of every battered woman, the cry of every neglected child, the despair of every addict, the death of every victim of every war.

There is nothing unpremeditated, nothing neglected by God. His unsleeping eye beholds all things.

I did criminal defense work part-time, and that paid the bills for representing abused and neglected children... and for defending in juvenile court those kids the 'child protective system' had missed when it had the chance.

Control and surrender have to be kept in balance. That's what surfers do - take control of the situation, then be carried, then take control. In the last few thousand years, we've become incredibly adept technically. We've treasured the controlling part of ourselves and neglected the surrendering part.

I think people in general have neglected to learn about history.

I got it into my head that I had somewhat neglected the guitar, and then I did a record called 'Arena,' and it was not a particularly bad record - it wasn't a bad record at all, but it was built around a certain concept, which is a guitar quartet, with a little bit of augmentation here and there.

You don't see many people crying over the wrong they do to God every time His word is neglected or when one willfully sins.

We are pleased to have acquired basic cable rights to this significant and important documentary that sheds considerable light upon the often neglected achievements of African-Americans in motor sports.

Vegetables and fruits are the most neglected foods in the diet. We need to get people back to eating real food, not foods in a package.

we have neglected that area. And it will take a big project to really turn it around.

What a fearful object a long-neglected duty gets to be

Thank goodness my education was neglected.

We want to grow the idea of reading gardens across the country. Our aim is to inspire. We want people to see a neglected plot and envision a reading garden to improve the environment and lives.

We had based all of our defensive game plan on stopping the big guys and neglected to get on him early and he hit like five in a row on us.

The square is your friend. Behind every missed lay-up is a tale of the square neglected.

Getting regular restful sleep is an essential key to staying healthy and vital, yet it is so often neglected or underemphasized.

To point out that our military has been overextended, taken for granted and neglected -- that is no criticism of the military,

She did not look like she was neglected in any way.

Sincere regret may be a faculty for paying attention to the future, for sensing a new tide where we missed a previous one, for experiencing timelessness with a grandchild where we neglected a boy of our own.

One of the best things that can happen to any cause, to any people, is to have Bill Clinton as its advocate. That is how needy and neglected causes have become global initiatives.

Obviously, we would like the pace of progress to pick up in north Columbia. It seems like our (area) is always neglected and last as far as progress.

Now they're really disillusioned with him because he is doing the opposite. They feel quite neglected because the state used to nourish them. But at the end of the day, they are a small hard-core.

Neglected by Congress below, distressed with the small-pox; want of Generals and discipline in our Army, which may rather be called a great rabble, our credit and reputation lost, and great part of the country; and a powerful foreign enemy advancing upon us, are so many difficulties we cannot surmount them.

Nothing in the decision published today authorizes the commission to sidestep the file access and other due process guarantees to which all companies are entitled to under European law and which have been neglected in this case.

I wouldn't say the DHS has dropped the ball as much as it has neglected to make this a priority.

I did say this was one of the world's neglected emergencies. The victims of the terror are still neglected to a high degree and the situation unabated. We need to do more.

Four things come not back. The spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, ad the neglected opportunity.

For much of the '70s, '80s and '90s, it was like the neglected stepchild told it was going to have to go to work to support the family,

I think a lot of people want to know if they're with somebody who has a kid somewhere and owes 10 years of back child support, or filed for bankruptcy years back and just neglected to tell you. A lot of people don't know how to ask those questions. That's what I do.

It is our grave mistake that for many years we neglected pro-Western groups in order to avoid any friction with the existing rulers.

I think even the mayor will admit that the schools have been so neglected that we're really talking about peanuts in terms of making them look like we want to educate children.

Research in neglected diseases is happening and partnerships are working away on new products.

Remember, God is your guardian, when you sleep; when you are helpless; even when you have forgotten or neglected or discarded Him. He has no need you offer or promise to offer. He is ever content, ever blissful, ever full and ever free. Do your duty to yourself - that is enough offering for Him.

Like other Americans, U.S. journalists have often neglected the study of history; they have much remedial work to do in trying to understand who did what to whom, why and when - and who did it first.

I think looking towards clean energy alternatives as well as recycling is really important because it is neglected on this campus. I want students to be aware so that as they're walking on campus they don't just throw stuff away.

Man was nature's mistake -she neglected to finish him - and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.

We hope their unprecedented mission to this neglected region will help re-focus international attention on the suffering of millions of refugees, internally displaced persons and returnees.

We have sorely neglected our trade relationships over the years with the new and emerging markets - the Chinas and Indias,

We have children who need to be fed, and some are so neglected that they badly need showers.

Voters in the West are a neglected constituency. Presidential candidates have a responsibility to know the entire American family.

When I first met my wife, I really just settled down quite a bit and I started living a much cleaner lifestyle. I was able to concentrate on things that I neglected in the past a little more and I was spending a lot more time at home than I normally would.

We disclosed this to Oracle on Oct. 25 last year. Around the same time, they were alerted to another high-risk flaw that is not as serious as this one. They fixed that one in the January CPU but neglected to fix this. It's not a case of not having enough time, because the fix is trivial and the risks are severe.

We had an opportunity. We didn't fully fund the pension system that we neglected last year.

The data is clear. These are very high-poverty districts that have been neglected for 50 years. And the last three or four years that we have been really working hard, there is substantial evidence that the state's investment is paying off for these kids.

Business neglected is business lost.

There has been a military presence since the 1990s and people are focused on it. It is an area for so long that has been neglected by the American public.

Veterans feel kind of neglected by the country right now. There's a lot of room for her to come down on the side of veterans.

This wonderful plant has so many uses and yet is often neglected in our society. The primary use of the dandelion plant is for its superior liver cleansing qualities. The plant is a powerhouse of nutrients!

There have been players who have completely neglected their families to be the best players in the world, ... Well, what about your wife and kids? The trophies don't mean anything in the end. It's about your family.

Conceptually, it is a wonderful strategy. That's a neglected market. People have been paying attention to the echo boomers and not to the middle woman. That's your Chico's women, and there are a lot of them, and they have the money to spend.

consistently neglected to learn from its mistakes, resulting in massive loss of life and untold misery.

Cycling has been neglected by local governments and as a result, the general populous has not been as aware of the cycling community as it should be. That's ultimately the beef (we have with Houston).

Energy infrastructure is something that's been neglected the past 10 to 15 years, so there's a tremendous amount of catch-up in the industry to get the expansion back up.

Employee compensation is something that we have neglected for a large number of years.

The tour company neglected to check the schedule.

Thinking ahead, in 2013, the Japanese government, together with pharmaceutical companies and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, established a fund for promoting research and development of medical products for neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). The importance of planning for disease outbreaks was made clear with the Ebola virus.

The women's final was a total disaster, and then the doubles, which is normally a neglected art, comes out and shines and saves the day again.

I've read about the budget and the need for matching funds. I would be willing to see the money better allocated in the city budget. The library is pretty important and it was pretty well neglected last year.

So much is being neglected in Palestine today when it comes to the state of security and the rule of law. It is time to act before it is too late.

SALACITY, n. A certain literary quality frequently observed in popular novels, especially in those written by women and young girls, who give it another name and think that in introducing it they are occupying a neglected field of letters and reaping an overlooked harvest. If they have the misfortune to live long enough they are tormented with a desire to burn their sheaves.

Properly handling petitions is an indispensable and irreplaceable job that should not be neglected in building a socialist harmonious society.

Despite repeated requests from the fish houses and fishing vessels, the Kalisz administration has ignored the industry and neglected the South Terminal's dangerous condition for several years. This follows a pattern by Mayor Kalisz of neglecting the city's streets, neighborhoods, school system, crime problem, and in this particular case, the city's number one industry.

Dengue is one of these neglected diseases ... it's basically been ignored for many, many years.

That the role of size has been to some degree neglected in biology may lie in its simplicity. Size may be a property that affects all of life, but it seems pallid compared to the matter which makes up life. Yet size is an aspect of the living that plays a remarkable, overreaching role that affects life's matter in all its aspects.

That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten as in the old rhetoric of reform; what is much worse, they are not seen.

The U.S. side has politicized the trade issue and largely neglected international practices, which makes it very difficult for people to expect any substantial results from the talks.

A lot of people just really don't want to talk about these issues. These children -- many of them have been severely abused and neglected -- have been taken from their home. They have issues they need to deal with and what happens to them is something that people really don't want to face, but we have to face it,

They neglected to get our oil supplies and our submarines. The battleships they did get were beginning to become obsolete anyway.

They neglected building any high schools here for 30 years,

They formed the WHA in 1972 because they thought certain areas in the U.S. and Canada were being neglected by professional hockey.

This is what we are finding now. These are animals that were neglected and abused before. If this was a normal situation, we'd have a lot of animal abuse prosecutions.

It's a way of helping people to learn more about the great patrimony of Catholic music that's been largely neglected by the church since the Second Vatican Council.

I tried to draw people more realistically, but the figure I neglected to update was myself.

You think he would have noticed he didn't have it when he moved out. He neglected it for two months. He doesn't deserve it.

Education for many people would be the core copyright issue, yet it's largely neglected in this bill,

The best interests of this boy have been undeniably neglected and his mother's wishes ignored, ... intimidated Elian's American family with its sheer weight, power and force.

It was like walking into a factory that had been neglected for years.

I've heard from a lot of people, mostly small-business owners, about how they feel neglected by City Hall. It's a way to get the city's attention.

They just neglected a large portion of the front row.

A partnership between the EU and Turkey would not be established if the EU did not keep its promises, if leaders of the EU member states forgot they had signed several documents or neglected their signatures due to some reasons, and if they brought forward new conditions which could never be accepted by Turkey,

The FDA is guilty of negligence - plain and simple. This decision might actually make matters worse. Consumers will be deceived into thinking that irradiated shellfish is safe to eat, but FDA neglected to ensure that it will be.