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Pastoral Resources
Sermon Quotations Archive
Quotations regarding 'Neglect'
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We must never neglect the patient's own use of his symptoms.
Alfred Adler, Austrian Psychologist (1870-1937)
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, American Musician (1972- )
It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that some portion of the neglect of science in England, may be attributed to the system of education we pursue.
Charles Babbage, English Mathematician (1792-1871)
We cannot neglect the unemployed, underemployed and dislocated workers of America who need ample and widespread funding for federal job training services.
Joe Baca, American Politician (1947- )
We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.
Robert Baden-Powell, English Soldier (1857-1941)
Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.
Benjamin Banneker, American Scientist (1731-1806)
Child abuse and neglect offend the basic values of our state. We have a responsibility to provide safe settings for at-risk children and facilitate permanent placement for children who cannot return home.
Matt Blunt, American Politician (1970- )
What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.
Pearl S. Buck, American Novelist (1892-1973)
Today, the growing economic and social pressures in our country are putting millions of women, children and families at increased risk of abuse and neglect, especially when families are denied basic support services and economic opportunity.
Robert Casey, American Politician (1932-2000)
The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs at it, at the same time he knows he must not neglect it.
Lord Chesterfield, British Statesman (1694- )
We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman
If the market is left to sort matters out, social injustice will be heightened and suffering in the community will grow with the neglect the market fosters.
Helen Clark, New Zealander Statesman (1950- )
The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.
Confucius, Chinese Philosopher
The Republicans have chosen to neglect young Americans who need assistance with the costs of higher education.
John Conyers, American Politician (1929- )
There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner and his children, unless it be the arrogance most of us betray when we set out to 'Americanize' him.
Charles Horton Cooley, American Sociologist
A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation.
Howard Crosby, American Clergyman
I think Haiti is a place that suffers so much from neglect that people only want to hear about it when It's at its extreme. And that's what they end up knowing about it.
Edwidge Danticat, Haitian Author (1969- )
Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.
Diogenes, Greek Philosopher
A man should never neglect his family for business.
Walt Disney, American Cartoonist (1901-1966)
Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to give them what we did have growing up.
James C. Dobson, American Psychologist (1936- )
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