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I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it. -- Harriet Tubman
It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected. -- Mark Twain
You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness. -- Percy Ross
O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams. -- Saint Augustine
Some people won't go the extra mile, and then on their birthday, when no one makes a fuss, they feel neglected and bitter. -- Anne Lamott
Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected. -- Charles Baudelaire
What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it - would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have. -- Ralph Marston
Neglected dreams become regrets. -- Stephen Richards
Art quickens nature; care will make a face; Neglected beauty perisheth apace. -- Robert Herrick
Neglected, calumny soon expires, show that you are hurt, and you give it the appearance of truth. -- Tacitus
Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot -- Dixie Lee Ray
Last night I neglected to mention something that bears repeating. -- Ron Fairly
Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake. -- Eric Hoffer
When you start using senses you've neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes. -- Barbara Sher
Prayer is to the Christian what breath is to life, yet no duty of the Christian is so neglected. -- R. C. Sproul
Four things do not come back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity. -- Ted Chiang
To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible. -- Rutherford B. Hayes
What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born. -- Pearl S. Buck
I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The essence of trade unionism is social uplift. The labor movement has been the haven for the dispossessed, the despised, the neglected, the downtrodden, the poor. -- A. Philip Randolph
It is a painful reminder that even the most well-intentioned among us sometimes act in ways that put children in danger of being abused or neglected. -- Paul Begala
The streets and alleys of the ward were notoriously filthy, and the contractors habitually neglected them, not failing, however, to draw their regular payments from the city treasury. -- Ray Stannard Baker
Oh my friends, we are loaded with countless church activities, while the real work of the church, that of evangelizing and winning the lost is almost entirely neglected. -- Oswald J. Smith
We have for a long time neglected our children. They are our richest treasure. We must give them time, attention and the love of our pure, unselfish hearts. -- Dada Vaswani
The month of Ramadan is the world's most widespread fast and yet its teachings are minimised, neglected and even betrayed (through literal application of rules that overlooks their ultimate objective). -- Tariq Ramadan
The spirit, like the body, can be strengthened and developed by frequent exercise. Just as the body, if neglected, grows weaker and finally impotent, so the spirit perishes if untended. -- Wassily Kandinsky
That science has long been neglected and declining in England, is not an opinion originating with me, but is shared by many, and has been expressed by higher authority than mine. -- Charles Babbage
Extremism can flourish only in an environment where basic governmental social responsibility for the welfare of the people is neglected. Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism. -- Benazir Bhutto
Children who reach the age of eighteen with their entire skills set composed on Nintendo and eating Doritos have been neglected. Their parents neglected to give them the character traits necessary to live successfully. -- Dave Ramsey
That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten as in the old rhetoric of reform; what is much worse, they are not seen. -- Michael Harrington
Every evening, I come home tired and have just enough energy to fill out the endless tax forms, to pay bills, not to let my house neglected and to hear the radio concert for an hour. -- Fritz Zwicky
Think of all that hard work our founding fathers put in - the revolutionizing, the three-fifths compromising, having to write the entire Constitution with a quill - and yet they neglected to include the right to vote. -- Mo Rocca
I write about people who are usually damaged or neglected by society finding each other and forming relationships that are quite extraordinary and in some cases life-saving. I've had a few of those relationships, which I value highly. -- Matthew Quick
I think that consciousness has always been the most important topic in the philosophy of mind, and one of the most important topics in cognitive science as a whole, but it had been surprisingly neglected in recent years. -- David Chalmers
The health care industry can play a great role in this by being aware of the fact that these children form perhaps the most neglected group of people in the country, largely because it is hard to find them. -- C. Everett Koop
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
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
The art of war is of vital importance to the state. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected. -- Sun Tzu
Of all the seasons, winter is the most conducive to the great art of dormancy. This art requires an appreciation of semi-consciousness: the beautiful and necessary prelude to sleep - a special pleasure in itself that is all too often neglected, under-valued or looked down upon. -- Michael Leunig
Love exercised while duty is neglected will make children headstrong, willful, perverse, selfish, and disobedient. If stern duty is left to stand alone without love to soften and win, it will have a similar result. Duty and love must be blended in order that children may be properly disciplined. -- Ellen G. White
Our world is utterly saturated with fear. We fear being attacked by religious extremists, both foreign and domestic. We fear the loss of political rights, a loss of privacy, or a loss of freedom. We fear being injured, robbed or attacked, being judged by others, or neglected, or left unloved. -- Brendan Myers
A child rightly trained may be a world-wide blessing, with an influence reaching onward to eternal years. But a neglected or misdirected directed child may live to blight and blast mankind, and leave influences of evil which shall roll on in increasing volume till they plunge into the gulf of eternal perdition. -- George Muller
The one thing that is sort of sneered at and not really believed is bisexuality. Any bisexual man is just seen as a closeted gay man. That shows how narrow-minded people are. The other thing that's totally neglected and which nobody approves of is celibacy. People again assume that you're just repressing something. -- Edmund White
There is all the difference in the world between the criminal's avoiding the public eye and the civil disobedience's taking the law into his own hands in open defiance. This distinction between an open violation of the law, performed in public, and a clandestine one is so glaringly obvious that it can be neglected only by prejudice or ill will. -- Hannah Arendt
Seeing is a neglected enterprise. -- Saul Leiter
Business neglected is business lost. -- Daniel Defoe
Thank goodness my education was neglected. -- Beatrix Potter
A spark neglected makes a mighty fire. -- Robert Herrick
Fire, if neglected, will soon gain strength. -- Horace
The president's budget proposals have neglected water infrastructure. -- Sue Kelly
A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration. -- Quintus Curtius Rufus
Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien. -- Edward Dahlberg
Probably the most neglected friend you have is you. -- L. Ron Hubbard
In the 1990s, human intelligence gathering was seriously neglected. -- Todd Akin
Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot. -- Dixie Lee Ray
Hell is truth seen too lateduty neglected in its season. -- Tryon Edwards
My parents just neglected me, I wasn't abused or anything. -- Andy Dick
What a fearful object a long-neglected duty gets to be -- Chauncey Wright
My neglected duties crowd around me in my dreams, murmuring. -- Mason Cooley
My education was neglected, yet I was passionately fond of reading. -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Dawn itself is the most neglected masterpiece of the modern world. -- R. Murray Schafer
My education was neglected, yet I was passionately fond of reading. -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
No requirement of industry is so much neglected as operational definitions. -- W. Edwards Deming
I think people in general have neglected to learn about history. -- Maynard James Keenan
The basic formula of all sin is: frustrated or neglected love. -- Franz Werfel
It is always the best friends who are neglected and ignored. -- George Sand
My body may have been abused, but it certainly hasn't been neglected. -- Paul Lynde
Virtues neglected then, adored become, And graces slighted, blossom on the tomb. -- George Crabbe
I WILL FOLLOW ANYONEAND REMIND EVERYONEOF THE FATE OF NEGLECTED YAZIDI CHILDREN -- Widad Akrawi
Present opportunities are not to be neglected; they rarely visit us twice. -- Voltaire
It is well said that neglected prayer is the birth-place of all evil. -- Charles Spurgeon
I like to give a voice to others, especially things neglected or despised. -- Edwin Morgan
In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire. -- Horace
[The] act of gratitude is nowadays is probably more often neglected than overdone. -- William F. Buckley, Jr.
There is nothing unpremeditated, nothing neglected by God. His unsleeping eye beholds all things. -- Saint Basil
Certainly, friends are sufficiently rare not to be neglected; they are life's best comforters. -- Eugenie de Guerin
I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE... AND REMIND EVERYONE... OF THE FATE OF NEGLECTED YAZIDI CHILDREN -- Widad Akrawi
Massive elimination is the most important step and the most neglected step for entrepreneurs. -- Tim Ferriss
How vital are mother's influence and teaching in the home-and how apparent when neglected! -- Ezra Taft Benson
Regret of neglected opportunity is the worst hell that a living soul can inhabit. -- Rafael Sabatini
Ceilings must always be considered. They are the most neglected surface in a room. -- Albert Hadley
I'm surrounded by men, and the muse is complaining that I have neglected her. -- Shirley Geok-lin Lim
Abused And neglected children have paid the price for liberalism's tendency to sentimentalize the poor. -- Mona Charen
-Books were once cherished belongings of people, that they weren't always just neglected and collecting dust. -- Barbara Hodgson
A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration. [Lat., Parva saepe scintilla contempta magnum excitavit incendium.] -- Quintus Curtius Rufus
The square is your friend. Behind every missed lay-up is a tale of the square neglected. -- Digger Phelps
Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected. -- John Locke
I tried to draw people more realistically, but the figure I neglected to update was myself. -- Joe Sacco
A soiled baby with a neglected nose cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty. -- Mark Twain
There is the fear that you somehow neglected to say what was really yours to say. -- John Updike
What does tamed mean? It's something that's been too often neglected. It means to create ties. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected. -- David Hume
The Buddha gave equal opportunities to women. But we, even as followers of Buddha, neglected that. -- Dalai Lama
The rules of parenting have changed. By the modern definition, we were a generation of neglected children. -- Richard Linklater
She had made him possible. In that sense she was his god. Like God, she was neglected. -- Jeanette Winterson
Of all the duties enjoined by Christianity none is more essential and yet more neglected than prayer. -- Francois Fenelon
Spanish civilization crushed the Indian. English civilization scorned and neglected him. French civilization embraced and cherished him. -- Francis Parkman
It cannot be when the root is neglected that what springs from it will be well ordered. -- Confucius
The longer a soul hath neglected duty, the more ado there is to get it taken up. -- William Gurnall
...the influence of the factory upon the physiological and mental state of the workers has been completely neglected. -- Alexis Carrel
In science, new ideas are at first completely neglected, later fiercely attacked, and finally regarded as well known. -- Konrad Lorenz
I believe that this neglected, wounded, inner child of the past is the major source of human misery. -- John Bradshaw
There's the blazing Russian Caucasus, with an ongoing war all against all, which is not to be neglected. -- Garry Kasparov
A soldier has one item that cannot be neglected. His feet. They are his wheels, his mechanised warfare. -- Leon Uris
The threat of a neglected cold is for doctors what the threat of purgatory is for priests-a gold mine. -- Nicolas Chamfort
I am positive I was not a neglected child. I remember reading 'The Jungle Book' and 'The Sleeping Beauty. -- Keri Russell
Present opportunities are neglected, and attainable good is slighted, by minds busied in extensive ranges and intent upon future advantages. -- Samuel Johnson
Cezanne was fated, as his passion was immense, to be immensely neglected, immensely misunderstood, and now, I think, immensely overrated. -- Walter Sickert
The streams of religion run deep or shallow, according as the banks of the Sabbath are kept up or neglected. -- Matthew Henry
When you feel neglected, think of the female salmon, who lays 3,000,000 eggs but no one remembers her on Mother's Day. -- Sam Ewing
I am positive I was not a neglected child. I remember reading 'The Jungle Book' and 'The Sleeping Beauty.' -- Keri Russell
We have neglected the truth that a good farmer is a craftsman of the highest order, a kind of artist. -- Wendell Berry
The devil is the father of lies, but he neglected to patent the idea, and the business now suffers from competition. -- Josh Billings
We have taught this generation how to "market" the Gospel but we have neglected to encourage them to "preach" the Gospel. -- John Paul Warren
Getting regular restful sleep is an essential key to staying healthy and vital, yet it is so often neglected or underemphasized. -- Deepak Chopra
The neglected heart will soon be a heart overrun with worldly thoughts; the neglected life will soon become a moral chaos. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination. -- Thomas Sowell
Life is series of opportunities. The often neglected fact of life is that opportunities multiply as you take advantage of them. -- Harvey Mackay
Love is a tender plant; when properly nourished, it becomes sturdy and enduring, but neglected it will soon wither and die. -- Hugh B. Brown
Comedy - particularly the frothy and frivolous - is notoriously neglected by festivals and awards. But it's bloody hard to get right. -- Colin Firth

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