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Quotes About Caretaker

An aware parent loves all children he or she interacts with - for you are a caretaker for those moments in time.
~ Doc Childre
The caretaker was certainly very ancient, a tight and desiccated thing from which all softness and moisture had long since been extracted.
~ Jonathan Stroud
My father was a caretaker of a hacienda. It was a huge place with a lot of animals. I was actually born there, not at a hospital but at the hacienda.
~ Marcos Maidana
steward, bailiff, falconer, houndmaster
~ Bernard Knight
She's mine. They're mine. And I protect what's mine.
~ Maya Banks
she's Mum's emotional caretaker, always has been, always will be it's the burden of being an only child, especially a girl who will naturally be more caring.
~ Bernardine Evaristo
She's the mother of thousands.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
Sometimes I feel like a caretaker of a museum -- a huge, empty museum where no one ever comes, and I'm watching over it for no one but myself.
~ Haruki Murakami
A good breeder or experienced rescue agency wants you to prove that you'll be a capable caretaker. The interrogation and screening can be annoying, but it's also a sign that you're on the right track. A breeder ought to know if you work long hours away from home, have a fenced yard, have kids or other animals, or if you have access to parks.
~ Jon Katz
Munchausen by proxy may be the single most complex—and lethal—form of maltreatment known today. It is formally defined as the falsification or induction of physical and/or emotional illness by a caretaker of a dependent person. In most cases, the perpetrator is a mother and the victim is her own child.
~ Julie Gregory
I'm sorry, young caretaker," Lomo said. "By coming to Wyrmroost, you inherited calamitous trouble. And look what you do!" "Flip over my rocking chair?" "You stand and fight! While a nation of ancient adults cowers behind policies of appeasement.
~ Brandon Mull
I handed the photo back to her. The caretaker gazed at it as if it were a lucky charm, a return ticket to her youth.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
your parent may actually have consciously or unconsciously reinforced you as the caretaker to meet his or her needs, to be the nurturer and provider of emotional support,
~ Kimberlee Roth
That surely must be what happened," she said to Brian. "A caretaker found the head and returned it and . . ." ". . . and you can be in the play," Brian finished for her. "I sure hope so—then we can quit this wild goose chase and eat lunch. Besides, I wish I could see you stumble around up there forgetting your lines," he teased.
~ Carole Marsh
I worked under a lot of 'top-class managers at Spurs and had to take over as 'caretaker a couple of times when things were not going well. I know what's required.
~ Chris Hughton
Those in the North Caucasus hang vacant, since 'our people', an old caretaker tells me, 'are still dying there', and deaths in Syria stand at four. I wonder bleakly if these scrupulous slabs will one day confess to casualties in Ukraine.
~ Colin Thubron
It means the God who worries about our sins is not only God the judge, but also God the caretaker. He worries about sin because He craves righteousness, but also, simply, because He loves us.
~ Lauren F. Winner
One tier consisted of the steward, charged with keeping an eye on the food supply;
~ Laurence Bergreen
Don't allow anyone to tell you that there's "no market" for a career as the eccentric yet mysterious caretaker of an abandoned lighthouse nestled in fog on the coast of a long-forgotten seaside town.
~ Keith Wynn, @ravens_rhapsody
I grew up near King's Cross station in London, living in an apartment block where my dad was a caretaker.
~ Phil Daniels
I help the pastor unload the car and carry stuff to a cake stand right next to the train tracks. He installs me there, as caretaker of the cake stand, and – get this – I have to wear a fucken choir gown. Vernon Gucci Little, in his unfashionable Jordan New Jacks, with fucken choir gown.
~ D.B.C. Pierre
The caretaker liked the evenings and the nights. He didn't need much sleep and often sat by himself in the peace and quiet of the lake shore for hours. He didn't remember, he didn't worry, he just was.
~ Tove Jansson
I'm still useful in my capacity as an arts educator and caretaker for the stray dogs.
~ Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook
All my best memories of my brother are in vehicles, speeding, predatory or celebratory. We were just made to drive. For the last 12 years of his life, he lived as caretaker of an orange grove. There, on 18 acres, my brother collected cars and trucks and motorcycles.
~ Susan Straight