#neglect

It's the quality of the ordinary, the straight, the square, that accounts for the great stability and success of our nation. It's a quality to be proud of. But it's a quality that many people seem to have neglected. ↗

— Gerald R. Ford

#great #many #nation #neglected #ordinary

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

— Don Van Vliet

#child #enough #given #had #i

Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#early #early childhood #exercising #faculty #had

A person that much interested in science is going to neglect his social life somewhat, but not completely, because that isn't healthy either. So one has to work it out according to one's own inclinations, how one wants to proportion these things. ↗

— Clyde Tombaugh

#because #completely #either #going #healthy

Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#citizens #creatures #duties #fathers #free

Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another. ↗

— George Washington

#army #discipline #gives #hurtful #more

All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible. ↗

— Noah Webster

#bible #contained #crime #evils #injustice

Nowadays, many Americans have forgotten the meaning and traditions of Memorial Day. At cemeteries across the country, the graves of the fallen are sadly ignored, and worse, neglected. ↗

— Allen West

#cemeteries #country #day #fallen #forgotten

A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's. ↗

— Richard Whately

#called #his #man #neglecting #neighbor

It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary. ↗

— Richard Whately

#makes #necessary #neglect #rebuilding #repair