Whats a good quote about missing whats right in front of you?

Question

My parents ignore me, and I need a goood quote to describe that.

Answer 1

If it was a snake it would have bitten you

Answer 2

she fears him, and will always ask
What fated her to choose him;
She meets in his engaging mask
All reasons to refuse him;
But what she meets and what she fears
Are less than are the downward years,
Drawn slowly to the foamless weirs
Of age, were she to lose him.


Between a blurred sagacity
That once had power to sound him,
And Love, that will not let him be
The Judas that she found him,
Her pride assuages her almost,
As if it were alone the cost. --
He sees that he will not be lost,
And waits and looks around him.


A sense of ocean and old trees
Envelops and allures him;
Tradition, touching all he sees,
Beguiles and reassures him;
And all her doubts of what he says
Are dimmed of what she knows of days --
Till even prejudice delays
And fades, and she secures him.


The falling leaf inaugurates
The reign of her confusion;
The pounding wave reverberates
The dirge of her illusion;
And home, where passion lived and died,
Becomes a place where she can hide,
While all the town and harbor side
Vibrate with her seclusion.


We tell you, tapping on our brows,
The story as it should be, --
As if the story of a house
Were told, or ever could be;
We'll have no kindly veil between
Her visions and those we have seen, --
As if we guessed what hers have been,
Or what they are or would be.


Meanwhile we do no harm; for they
That with a god have striven,
Not hearing much of what we say,
Take what the god has given;
Though like waves breaking it may be,
Or like a changed familiar tree,
Or like a stairway to the sea
Where down the blind are driven.

Answer 3

I've only asked you for one thing, see me for who I am, and for the posibility of everything I can become. Possibilities in life are what make it worth living, but how can I achieve great things if the people close to me don't have enough time or energy to believe in me....... or even know me for that matter? In the most convenient terms you've forgotten who you were... and so have forgotten me. You've been so busy trying to grow up and get ahead that you've forgotten the fact that everything has a begining...even you. You've given me roots and someday you'll rely on my to give you branches.... but what will happen years from now when you don't know me anymore? What will happen when you look around you for your daughter and find a woman you barely recognize? Barely known to you because of your own self-imposed blindness and impossible standards. You're too busy, maybe later. You're too tired, maybe later. You're too sad, too sick, too fed-up...maybe later. What if there is no later?

Answer 4

Gone - flitted away,
Taken the stars from the night and the sun
From the day!
Gone, and a cloud in my heart.
~Alfred Tennyson

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore,
And that's what parents were created for.
~Ogden Nash, "The Parent," Happy Days, 1933

There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. ~Chinese Proverb

Answer 5

I call it the Icarus Factor.

Being so close to the situation I don't realize what else is gong on around me.

or

Hidden in Plain Sight

Answer 6

go to www.thinkexist.com
its a site full of quotes and u just type in a quoter or the topic and they give u tons of quotes! its really helpful for essays too.

Answer 7

Hey Focker!!!

If it were any closer it would bite you.

If you are in an airport say Hi real loud to a guy named Jack.
Hi!Jack!

Hellooooooooooooo

Hi remember me????

Earth to Mom and Dad

Answer 8

You can't see the forest for the trees.

(In other words, missing the whole picture...rather than seeing only fragmented pieces.)

Answer 9

Remember Me?

Answer 10

Ask them in 10 years will you look back and regret this moment and all that they missed

Answer 11

How would I know -- I can't see the forest, for the trees.

Have you tried telling them that you feel that they are ignoring you?