Quotes About Neglected Child

#1. 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.

John Ortberg

#2. By not paying attention to your body, you are putting it in the same predicament as a neglected child. How can a child be expected to develop normally if the parents pay no attention, if they ignore its cries for help, and remain indifferent to whether their child is happy or unhappy?

Deepak Chopra

#3. What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Pearl S. Buck

#4. I am positive I was not a neglected child. I remember reading 'The Jungle Book' and 'The Sleeping Beauty.'

Keri Russell

#5. 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.

Andrew Vachss

#6. 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.

Malcolm Gladwell

#7. I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me - I wasn't neglected enough as a child.

Captain Beefheart

#8. Instead of treating your child like how you were treated. Treat them with the same love and attention you wanted from your parents while growing up.

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#9. It is never too early to try and plant [good principles] in a child, and never too late to cultivate them in the most neglected person.

Louisa May Alcott

#10. The community must assume responsibility for each child within its confines. Not one must be neglected whatever his condition. The community must see that every child gets the advantages and opportunities which are due him as a citizen and as a human being.

Pearl S. Buck

#11. Though just biographical record will touch the failings of the good and the eminent with tenderness.

Anna Seward

#12. Names are powerful and are prophecies of the future. The name you are called is a sign of what you are and what you would become.

Jude Idada

#13. I've sometimes imagined that if sin had a flavor, it might very well be bacon. It even tastes smoky, as if it emerged piping hot out of the fiery pans of hell

George Takei

#14. Through teaching myself how to be happy and get through things, I hope I can also do that for other people.

Taryn Manning

#15. All my life, books have felt alive; some more so than people, or rather, some people. Alive - this has to do with me, I know, and not the books - in a way that some people aren't. Alive as teachers, alive as minds, alive as imaginative triggers.

Andrea Barrett

#16. Bang bang bang. I understand now why so many horror movies use that device-the mysterious knock on the door-because it has the weight of a nightmare. You don't know what's out there, yet you know you'll open it. You'll think what I think: No one bad ever knocks.

Gillian Flynn

#17. Whenever I get a good script, I don't care whether it's telly or theatre or big screen - I'm not bothered.

Pete Postlethwaite

#18. A conductor should reconcile himself to the realization that regardless of his approach or temperament the eventual result is the same-the orchestra will hate him.

Oscar Levant

#19. When people are voiceless, they will have temper tantrums like a child who has not been paid attention to. And riots are massive temper tantrums from a neglected and voiceless people.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#20. I believe that this neglected, wounded, inner child of the past is the major source of human misery.

John Bradshaw