I'm horrible to live with. I don't clean. My clothes end up wherever I take them off. I forget to flush the toilet.
A spark neglected makes a mighty fire.
Child abuse and neglect offend the basic values of our state. We have a responsibility to provide safe settings for at-risk children and facilitate permanent placement for children who cannot return home.
I don't think in my family anyone looked after anyone. It didn't matter how old they were.
... the fires of neglect.
Referring to the Los Angeles riot of 1992
I've been a bad, bad girl - I've been careless with a delicate man.
It's crazy how people just don't care sometimes about the kids they have.
People write me letters and say I should answer them. But I don't like to answer letters. I don't write letters. I've never written my mother one.
Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike ...We wizards have mistreated and abused our fellows for too long, and we are now reaping our reward.
You might be a redneck if you were shooting pool when your kids were born.
I was not a good father in my first marriage. Although there are ways of deserting the family without leaving physically, I was deserted in my head. I was always out, always in the saloons, always drinking, always messing about.
Remember, it is a deep principle of our nature not to regard the safety of those who do not regard their own. If you are indifferent to your own safety, you must not be surprised if those less interested should become more so.
How could a mother who boils water for pasta leave two little girls behind?
In high school, I was an absolute derelict.
Let us be honest with each other. The threat to marriage is not the gays. It is a lack of loving commitment - whether it is found in the form of neglect, indifference, cruelty or adultery, to name just a few manifestations of the loveless desert in which too many marriages come to grief.
Lord, here is my body; I am very grateful for it; I neglected nothing that belonged to its contents and welfare; but as for my soul, that is lost and cast away forever. I took little.care and thought about it.
People can be so neglectful of each other and of their own heritage - then death intrudes. Conversations we wish that we'd had earlier are had too late.
Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves.
One of the reasons many people don't have what they want is neglect. Neglect starts out as an infection and then develops into a disease.
No one will be hurt if I don't come to conventions.
My worst fault is my belief that if you put bills unopened behind a picture frame, there is no need to pay them.
The women take so little stock In what I do or say They'd sooner leave their cosseting To hear a jackass bray.
I think it's unfair to commit to a girl and not be able to give her the time she deserves.
Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.