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Quotes About Care

Friendship is something to be built up carefully, by people with leisure, it is an art, nature does not enter into it.
~ Nancy Mitford
What you did was enough, I said. We didn't need a superhero. Just an adult who acted to help us when I asked.
~ Nancy Werlin
That is all we can do for each other in the world, to keep the wolf away.
~ Naomi Novik
And I want to help my family, I want to take care of them…but I can't be that girl. I can't be the smart girl. I can only be me.
~ Naomi Novik
However, I must disagree with you very strongly that providing ordinary and reasonable care in any way constitutes coddling, and I have always found that deprivation and hardship, when necessary, can be better endured by men who have not been subjected to them previously for no cause.
~ Naomi Novik
You have fed each other, and you kept the wolf away.
~ Naomi Novik
but the rest, I suspected, was the subtler magic of contrast; I didn't imagine Mirnatius showed much courtesy to his servants. "Matas and Vladas," I repeated. "Thank you for your care of my old nanushka, and now let us go inside: you must have a drink of hot krupnik in the kitchen after your long trip.
~ Naomi Novik
Apparently people commonly died when their loved ones were out of the room. Bathroom break. Quick trip down to the cafeteria for a grilled cheese. It was easier to die if you didn't have family members to worry about at that exact moment. Easier for the one who was dying, maybe.
~ Naomi Shihab Nye
If you must be careless with your possessions, let it be in connection with material things. Your mind is your spiritual estate! Protect and use it with the care to which Divine Royalty is entitled. You were given a WILL-POWER for this purpose.
~ Napoleon Hill
Many American women go without prenatal care during pregnancy, while expectant mothers in the Netherlands get free house calls from nurses.
~ Carl Zimmer
If you think you're the only person for whom life is painful, you're wrong. And if you don't mind letting yourself die like a dog, at least have the decency to remember that there are those of us who do care – although, to tell the truth, I don't see why?
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Un vincle de silenci i mirades els unica en les ombres d'aquella casa, al final d'un carrer oblidat, on es tenien cura l'un de l'altre, lluny del món.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The world looks so beautiful! She wonders how one can not do for it anything that needs to be done, or at least all one can do.
~ Carol Emshwiller
Women's deference is rooted not only in their social subordination but also in the substance of their moral concern. Sensitivity to the needs of others and the assumption of responsibility for taking care lead women to attend to voices other than their own and to include in their judgement other points of view.
~ Carol Gilligan
We are constantly learning from and teaching one another. We learn, too, that the most important work is not done by those who seem the most important, but by those who care the most. Women
~ Caroline Kennedy
Once a mother, always a mother. You don't ever get to quit or retire.
~ Carolyn Brown
The time to fix something is when it's first broken, not when it's shattered in so many pieces that there's not enough glue in the world to put it back together again.
~ Carolyn Brown
Be sure not to wash your white things with red or you'll have pink underwear.
~ Carolyn Brown
refill the aspirin bottle
~ Carolyn Brown
Officially, the New Testament church at an early stage took seriously their responsibility for widows who lacked family or other resources. The office of deacon was instituted initially to address this pressing need.
~ Carolyn Custis James
Jesus' final act of public ministry was to address the needs of a widow, his own mother, whose eldest son was dying before her very eyes.
~ Carolyn Custis James
brushing her hair until it snapped with electricity
~ Carolyn Keene
Did you think of anyone else?" Enid had asked the folk of this household. "Did you think of the next generation that'll have to work this land and wonder why they're getting half the yield they should? Or the ones who'll starve when the land gives up because you"—she had pointed at them, with two stiff fingers—"couldn't be bothered to take care of it?
~ Carrie Vaughn
One must always be careful with books and treasure them.
~ Cary Grant