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Quotes About Care

They count that as your birthday -- the day your mother gets up. Not the day you were born? Not the day you came out. They count the mother getting better as all part of the birth.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
No matter what affronts of youthful insolence he had to face in his day, he'd still have that: he was a man taken care of by a woman.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
This is why we have families.... So we never have to go a single day without worrying ourselves sick.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
because anything to do with improving the life of a child is on the bottom.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
For cafeteria workers far and wide. We love you guys!
~ Barbara Park
His parents had made sure he and his brothers had everything they needed or wanted, had been well fed, well clothed, and well loved.
~ Barbara Taylor Bradford
Only teasing', Death seemed to be saying over his shoulder with a rictus smile, with good humor and an oddly paternal affection. 'Take care of yourself, okay? We'll play again.
~ Barry Eisler
First was the fewer, not less. Now it was the care in avoiding a preposition at the end of a sentence. An educated man, presumably. Precise. Apparently fussy about small-minded rules, perhaps to compensate for a willingness to ignore large ones.
~ Barry Eisler
After all, to worry, at a minimum you have to care.
~ Barry Eisler
After you have finished with the stone, the twigs and beetle, other things will suggest themselves, and you must take care of them. I see you are already tired. But you must stay. This is the pain of it all. You can't keep leaving.
~ Barry Lopez
And this, indeed, is the standard line among social scientists who study choice. If we're rational, they tell us, added options can only make us better off as a society. Those of us who care will benefit, and those of us who don't care can always ignore the added options. This view seems logically compelling; but empirically, it isn't true.
~ Barry Schwartz
PEOPLE ARE DRIVEN TO SOCIAL COMPARISON LARGELY BECAUSE they care about status, and status, of course, has social comparison built into it.
~ Barry Schwartz
For your family, you do all that you can.
~ Stephen King
while I love each and every item, I'm happy to sell them, because I made them especially for you. Feel free to examine them, but please be careful. The best of them have teeth.
~ Stephen King
You have to water the flowers you want to grow.
~ Stephen R. Covey
He who wants to keep his garden tidy doesn't reserve a plot for weeds.
~ Stephen R. Covey
love is a verb. Love—the feeling—is a fruit of love, the verb. So love
~ Stephen R. Covey
happy Mom means a happy family!
~ Stephen R. Covey
And to get those eggs on a regular basis, we need to take care of the goose. We need to create and care for the relationships that make those results possible.
~ Stephen R. Covey
In an interdependent situation, the golden eggs are the effectiveness, the wonderful synergy, the results created by open communication and positive interaction with others. And to get those eggs on a regular basis, we need to take care of the goose. We need to create and care for the relationships that make those results realities.
~ Stephen R. Covey
But in the long run, people will trust and respect you if you are honest and open and kind with them. You care enough to confront. And to be trusted, it is said, is greater than to be loved. In the long run, I am convinced, to be trusted will be also to be loved.
~ Stephen R. Covey
Now, the scene you just saw, I began, pointing to the stage. Was about you and T.C., he concluded, nodding like he already knew. What?? She pretends she doesn't like him and he pretends he doesn't care. I had no handy rebuttal to that particular allegation and wouldn't have been able to come up with one if I'd been given a week's notice. So I countered with the only safe reply I could think of. The toilet is not working properly.
~ Steve Kluger
She tried to get even with him through psychological warfare but couldn't, because he didn't care.
~ Steve Martin
We are to fulfill our calling to be caretakers of the earth, regardless of whether global warming is real, or there are holes in the ozone layer, or three nonhuman species become extinct each day. Our vocation is not contingent on results or the state of the planet. It is simply dependent on our character as God's response-able human image-bearers.
~ Steven Bouma-Prediger