Quotes About Care

If it works, I'll be happy for you. If it doesn't, I'll be here for you.

What can the harvest hope for, if not for the care of the Reaper Man?

Hello, inner child, I'm the inner babysitter!

It was nice to hear the voices of little children at play, provided you took care to be far enough away not to hear what they were actually saying.

This is no way to treat a book," he said. "Look, he's bent the spine right back. People always do that, they've got no idea of how to treat them.

He'd forgotten the ancient wisdom: take care, when you are closely observing, that you are not closely observed.

Nanny just tended to put a hot poultice on everything and recommend a large glass of whatever the patient liked best on the basis that since you were going to be ill anyway you might as well get some enjoyment out of it.

She taught me so much, she said to herself. She built me as we were walking around after the sheep, and she told me all those things that I needed to know, and the first thing was to look after people. Of course, the other thing had been to look after the sheep.

Oh, I daresay they're all very well as decoration, somethin' nice to look at while you're workin', somethin' for show, but the start and finish, the start and finish, is helpin' people when life is on the edge. Even people you don't like. Stars is easy, people is hard.

LORD, WHAT CAN THE HARVEST HOPE FOR, IF NOT THE CARE OF THE REAPER MAN?

There was, indeed, no life. Stillness and silence ruled here. In fact Tiffany, who cared a lot about getting words right, would have said it was a hush, which is not the same as silence. A hush is what you get in cathedrals at midnight.

He stood up, took his tray over to the PLEASE DISPOSE OF YOUR REFUSE WITH CARE receptacle, and dumped the whole thing. If you had told him that there were children starving in Africa he would have been flattered that you'd noticed.

Sister Mary was a nurse and nurses, whatever their creed, are primarily nurses, which had a lot to do with wearing your watch upside down, keeping calm in emergencies, and dying for a cup of tea.

From then on, we knew there could never be a problem bigger than Mom's ability to solve it.

This is what we can promise the future: a legacy of care. That we will be good stewards and not take too much or give back too little, that we will recognize wild nature for what it is, in all its magnificent and complex history - an unfathomable wealth that should be consciously saved, not ruthlessly spent.

The legacy of the Wilderness Act is a legacy of care. It is the act of loving beyond ourselves, beyond our own species, beyond our own time. To honor wildlands and wild lives that we may never see, much less understand, is to acknowledge the world does not revolve around us. The Wilderness Act is an act of respect that protects the land and ourselves from our own annihilation.

How we treat our land, how we build upon it, how we act toward our air and water, in the long run, will tell what kind of people we really are. -Laurance S. Rockefeller

This is what we can promise the future: a legacy of care. That we will be good stewards and not take too much or give back too little, that we will recognize wild nature for what it is, in all its magnificent and complex history - an unfathomable wealth that should be consciously saved, not ruthlessly spent. Privilege is what we inherit by our status as Homo sapiens living on this planet.

I care about my brother. I care about wilderness. To care is to lament. My brother is a wilderness, unknowable.

If you don't love him, if you don't even care about him, then seeing him now shouldn't be all that painful. Should it?

Stay alive, stay safe is every mother's prayer, the same prayer that runs through her own head late at night whenever her twins are out on the town. Stay alive, stay safe.

Oh Mom, I never realized how much I still need you. Do we ever stop needing our mothers?

You have been getting all worked up about not looking out for me. Me, I've been lying here getting pissed about falling down on the job. I mean literally . Kerplunk.

The best way to take care of the future is to take care of the present moment.