Quotes About Care

She cared for everybody, and yet for no person's opinion.

The worst thing that can befall a family is to have its mother in hospital. The entire world becomes disoriented, the home has lost its heartbeat, there is no answer when you call. [Victoria, 'Magic Might Happen']

But did she read to Cara, the books that Cara loved? The Borrowers and The Railway Children and every word of The Secret Garden.) Did she love the children, or simply possess them?

I wish that, at the end of life, when things were truly done, there was something to look forward to. Something more pleasure-oriented. Perhaps opium, or heroin. So you become addicted. So what? All-you-can-eat ice cream parlors for the extremely aged. Big art pictures books and music. EXTREME palliative care, for when you've had it with everything else: the x-rays, the MRIs, the boring food, and the pills that don't do anything at all. Would that be so bad?

Better he should be bruised from head to foot by me who love him than that he should come to harm through ignorance

You must not forget the suspenders, Best Beloved.

Holden found one helpless little hand that closed feebly on his finger. And the clutch ran through his body till it settled about his heart. Till then his sole thought had been for Ameera. He began to realise that there was some one else in the world,...

Brothers and sisters, I bid you beware Of giving your heart to a dog to tear

Sing to your fledglings again

Sing to your fledglings again, Mother, oh lift up your head!

So this is the manling," said Kaa. "Very soft is his skin, and he is not unlike the Bandar-log. Have a care, Manling, that I do not mistake thee for a monkey some twilight when I have newly changed my coat.

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of cure.

Obviously, you can't control everything, but you are obliged to take care of the few things you can. I'm an optimist, basically, who acts like a pessimist. On principle. Just in case.

As she left the house and walked to the bus stop, it occurred to her that, really, a mother never stops carrying her child, and this thought brought tears to her eyes.

Do all kids have to worry about their parents' mental health?

when you cook for people, they feel cared for.

If you have the soul of a gardener, not for anything would you work with gloves on.

No disease is more dangerous than a bad husband, for if a woman catches that Pox, she'll languish from it her entire life.

Beware, beware of those who care,' as some wise person said. Not that I'm suggesting there is anything wrong with caring. But as Granny Maud used to say, 'Fine words butter no parsnips,' and she might have added, 'Caring should be felt and not heard.

save us both from the trouble that would arise if I was to disturb Mama's sleep. When

Your good health is the thing you have until the day your doctor tells you you don't have it any more.

Your health was what you had until the day you didn't have it and after that day you were screwed and it was better not to let doctors screw you before that day came.

Rather often, to lie is to infringe upon the freedom of those we care about.

My family was always present when I needed them and sometimes felt even stronger emotions than me.