Top 1200 Neglected Child Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I neglected a lot of loving relationships to pursue this ultimate goal - success.

Certainly, friends are sufficiently rare not to be neglected; they are life's best comforters.

Hell is truth seen too lateduty neglected in its season.

Ceilings must always be considered. They are the most neglected surface in a room.

A good poem has its own life. It's like bringing a child into the world. You, the poet, birthed the child, but the child will surprise you continually. I think a work of art has its own aliveness, its own future.

Last night I neglected to mention something that bears repeating.

Regret of neglected opportunity is the worst hell that a living soul can inhabit.

Present opportunities are not to be neglected; they rarely visit us twice.

The more boring a child is, the more the parents, when showing off the child, receive adulation for being good parents — because they have a tame child-creature in their house.

If a child lives with criticism, he learns to condemn. ... If a child lives with fear, he learns to be apprehensive. ... If a child lives with encouragement, he learns to be confident. ... If a child lives with acceptance, he learns to love.

Having a child, that's always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.

I think that the destructive element is too much neglected in art.

Child abuse continues to be a significant problem in the United Sates. It was estimated that 2001,903,000 children were the victims of child abuse or neglect. Child abuse is a crime perpetrated on the innocent and the defenseless.

In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.

Today's toys contain computer chips, so they can move and talk; this stimulates the mind of your child. Notice I say "your child." MY child just wants to eat the toys.

we have to listen to the child we once were, the child who still exists inside us. That child understands magic moments. We can stifle its cries, but we cannot silence its voice.The child we once were is still there. Blessed are the children, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.If we are not reborn if we cannot learn to look at life with the innocence and the enthusiasm o childhood it makes no sense to go on living.

A working definition of fathering might be this: fathering is the act of guiding a child to behave in ways that lead to the child's becoming a secure child in full, thus increasing his or her chances of being happy and fruitful as a young adult.

The essential and defining characteristic of childhood is not the effortless merging of dream and reality, but only alienation. There are no words for childhood's dark turns and exhalations. A wise child recognizes it and submits to the necessary consequences. A child who counts the cost is a child no longer.

Abused And neglected children have paid the price for liberalism's tendency to sentimentalize the poor.

If you add children to a marriage, they bring a different dimension to the relationship. If I'd had a child and I believed it would have made my child's life better by not coming out, the chances are I wouldn't have done it. Because I think you do whatever it takes to make your child happy.

Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot

The rules of parenting have changed. By the modern definition, we were a generation of neglected children.

Dawn itself is the most neglected masterpiece of the modern world.

It cannot be when the root is neglected that what springs from it will be well ordered.

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

I am sure that all people know deep down inside that the little child in the mother's womb is a human being from the moment of conception, created in the image of God to love and be loved. Let us pray that nobody will be afraid to protect that little child, to help that little child to be born. Jesus said: 'If you receive a little child in my name, you receive me.'

America, in all its institutions, whether it be the family or government, has forgotten and neglected its children.

I'll defend child pornography, how about that? What's wrong with seeing some child pornography? What if you watch child pornography because you find it hilarious? Then should it not a protected freedom of speech?

If every child matters, every child has the right to a good start in life. If every child matters, every child has the right to be included. And that is so important for children with special needs.

Virtues neglected then, adored become, And graces slighted, blossom on the tomb.

Not every child learns for the same purpose, not every child thrives in the same settings and schools. Limiting a child to just one opportunity does nothing more than limit that child's future. The way forward must involve more public charter schools, which offer parents a tuition-free alternative to their neighborhood school.

Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot.

It's important for a parent to learn to take delight in a child whose behavior might seem mystifying. In the case of an extroverted parent with an introverted child, it can be learning to see the inner riches of your child that may not always be expressed on the surface - but are there.

Building a home for neglected senior citizens is my long time dream.

[The] act of gratitude is nowadays is probably more often neglected than overdone.

I tried to draw people more realistically, but the figure I neglected to update was myself.

You can break down anything for a child, and you have to know what your child is ready for and what your child is not.

It's dangerous to be a child star, but it's dangerous to be a child in the ghetto, or to be a child at school being bullied.

Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.

The bond between a parent and child is the primary bond, the foundation for the rest of the child's life. The presence or absence of this bond determines much about the child's resiliency and what kind of adult they will grow up to be.

To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible.

...the influence of the factory upon the physiological and mental state of the workers has been completely neglected.

I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.

My neglected duties crowd around me in my dreams, murmuring.

I like to give a voice to others, especially things neglected or despised.

It is well said that neglected prayer is the birth-place of all evil.

It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.

CARE and our partner organizations have found that one of the most effective ways of stopping child marriage is to tap into a parent's love for their child. When parents learn about the consequences of child marriage, they're far less likely to push their children into it.

Neglected, calumny soon expires, show that you are hurt, and you give it the appearance of truth.

A child is not a bargaining chip or a learning tool. Your focus, if you adopt a child of a different race, should be on nurturing and protecting your child from bigotry, not deploying him or her as an anti-racist Mr. Fix-It.

A soiled baby with a neglected nose cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty.

I'm really the only artist in my family. I have one cousin who is a painter. I think I developed all of that from television and books - from being, essentially, an only child. I'm my mom's only child and my dad's fourth child, but separated by 14 years.

There's the blazing Russian Caucasus, with an ongoing war all against all, which is not to be neglected.

I've neglected my own vanity. Not that I regret it, but looking good is part of my job.

I am a voice for innocent animals who are being neglected and dumped by the millions at shelters.

I am always suspicious of those who impose 'rules' on child rearing. Every child is different in terms of temperament and learning, and every parent responds to a particular child, not some generalized infant or youngster.

I think heroes are important in the lives of kids because it shows a child what to become, it shows a child what's possible; it shows a child not just by theory but by active example.

I am keen to serve the people of Tuticorin which has been a neglected region.

The roots of a child's ability to cope and thrive, regardless of circumstance, lie in that child's having had at least a small, safe place (an apartment? a room? a lap?) in which, in the companionship of a loving person, that child could discover that he or she was lovable and capable of loving in return. If a child finds this during the first years of life, he or she can grow up to be a competent, healthy person.

Congress has the authority to authorize spending and investment to historically neglected and marginalized communities.