#neglect

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

#mothers #neglect #old-age #parents #sentimentality

Neglected but Undefeated I stand today living the life I was told I would never live all because my faith grew. ↗

— Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#bestseller #book #christ #faith #inspirational-life

But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes. The heart of a hurt child can shrink so that forever afterward it is hard and pitted as the seed of a peach. Or again, the heart of such a child may fester and swell until it is a misery to carry within the body, easily chafed and hurt by the most ordinary things. ↗

— Carson McCullers

#cruelty #heart #love #neglect #love

We must never neglect the patient's own use of his symptoms. ↗

— Alfred Adler

#must #neglect #never #own #patient

I don't want to limit myself musically. It would be really limiting if we'd neglect something we really want to do, like explore other styles of music. ↗

— Billie Joe Armstrong

#i #like #limit #limiting #music

It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect repairs. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#idea #neglect #no idea #only #quite

Socialism also brings us up against the hard rock of eugenic fact which, if we neglect it, will dash our most beautiful social construction to fragments. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#also #beautiful #brings #construction #dash

But you know the thing that I thing oftentimes gets ignored and neglected is there was 10 or 12 years of life before I met Amy and before she met me, where you know, whatever happened was probably going to happen some day. ↗

— Vince Gill

#before #day #gets #going #happen

I think people in general have neglected to learn about history. ↗

— Maynard James Keenan

#general #history #i #i think #learn

Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant. ↗

— Colin Powell

#distracted #doubly #everyone #leader #mind