Mother Neglect Quotes

#1. He reproached his wife with her inattention, her habitual neglect of the children. If it was not a mother's place to look after children, whose on earth was it? He himself had his hands full with his brokerage business.

Kate Chopin

#2. The growth of populations has in no way increased the amount [of art], it has merely increased
the adeptness with which substitutes can be produced and packaged.

Raymond Chandler

#3. When I was six years old I sprinkled sugar on my head, convinced myself it was pixie dust, wished myself invisible, and walked into the boys' bathroom at school.

Janet Evanovich

#4. The closed doorway to Mr. Langley's homeroom, once so intimidating, has no effect on me now. I shove it open and storm inside, tardy and fully prepared to take on anyone who has a problem with that.

Meg Kimball

#5. Don't you love your mother, dear?"
"I guess so. A hard, sharp, thorny kind of love that might be pity more than anything else.

Dean Koontz

#6. 100 million dollars used to be the limit of what a movie might cost; now they routinely cost 300 million. Sooner or later, spectacle is just going to have to find a new way to exist.

Matthew Specktor

#7. I'm not sure I had a political career for the future anyway. I'm not sure that politics was what I wanted to spend my life doing.

John Edwards

#8. And while a hundred civilizations have prospered (sometimes for centuries) without computers or windmills or even the wheel, none have survived even a few generations without art.

David Bayles

#9. The soft complaining flute, In dying notes, discovers The woes of hopeless lovers.

John Dryden

#10. My mother told me to raise my kids with calculated neglect. They get their self-worth from doing what they can do and not having everything done for them.

Lea Thompson

#11. What I do is draw but if you make an animated feature obviously it takes a whole team of people, and Zippy is my work. I felt that turning it over to a team of people would be wrong.

Bill Griffith

#12. For the last four years of her life, Mother was in a nursing home called Chateins in St. Louis ... [S]ix months before she died I sent a Mother's Day card. There was a horrible, mushy poem in it. I remember feeling vaguely guilty.

William S. Burroughs

#13. If the English educated neglect, as they have done and even now continue, as some do, to be ignorant of their mother tongue, linguistic starvation will abide.

Mahatma Gandhi

#14. When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence.

Ariel Gore

#15. Most of the press were vultures descending on the scene for curious America aplomb. Cameras inside the coffin interviewing worms.

Jim Morrison

#16. Where did I get the nerve to think I could handle American teenagers? Ignorance. That's where I got the nerve.

Frank McCourt

#17. CHARADE PARADE
A 'Special Day' once a year creates an excuse for neglect on the other 365 days for mothers, fathers & veterans

Kamil Ali

#18. I guess I started to realize that being an agnostic was such a wimpy position.

George Meyer

#19. Forgiveness unleashes joy. It brings peace. It washes the slate clean. It sets all the highest values of love in motion.

George MacDonald

#20. Everybody has something good inside them. Some hide it, some neglect it, but it is there

Mother Teresa

#21. And some small gnarled place inside me hated her for her weakness, for her neglect, for the months she had put us through. I had taken a step back from my mother, put up a wall to protect myself from needing her, and nothing was ever the same between us again.

Suzanne Collins

#22. Brainstorming is the nexus of ideas.

Asa Don Brown

#23. Life has been fair, destiny may have staged it well but the timings were terrible.

Parul Wadhwa

#24. You're ok. Breathe. Just breathe. Open your eyes. Come back. It's ok. It's over now. You're ok. Wake up. Please wake up. Don't do this to me. Don't do this to me. Don't do this to me. I love you so fucking much. Come back.

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