Jimmy Webb Quotes

The whole town looks as if it had been left out in the rain too long and by mistake.

These people picked you up and played with you and then left you lying in the rain

I don't think in my family anyone looked after anyone. It didn't matter how old they were.

I was a guy who abandoned a TV show. I didn't care about people.

It is correct that I overlooked the contamination of the party, not just now but also in the past.

... the fires of neglect.

I have taken so many wrong turns and been so careless with precious things and managed to lose, or break, or leave out in the rain so much that I loved.

People don't die of old age, they die of neglect.

A wound gets worse when it's treated with neglect.

You were leaving, and you didn't even know if I was okay.

A romantic, I think, picks the rose and is careless with the thorn.

Ain't nobody gonna care enough to catch you fall.

The town kept its secrets, and the Marsten House brooded over it like a ruined king.

Familiarity breeds contempt only when it breeds inattention.

When she needed help most, she was abandoned.

Along with being forever on the move, one is forever in a hurry, leaving things inadvertently behind-friend or fishing tackle, old raincoat or old allegiance.

I can see little consistency in a type of Christian activity which preaches the gospel on the street corners and at the ends of earth, but neglects the children of the covenant by abandoning them to a cold and unbelieving secularism.

I can't help telling you that I've begin to feel deserted.

You show me a boy who brings a snake home to his mother and I'll show you an orphan.

I'm sorry no one saved you.

The danger lies in forgetting.

And none will hear the postman’s knock Without a quickening of the heart. For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?