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Quotes About Care

Cast away care; he that loves sorrow lengthens not a day, nor can he buy tomorrow.
~ Thomas Dekker
A certain Samaritan... bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine.
~ Bible
Take care of the sense and the sounds will take of care themselves.
~ Lewis Carroll
Crabbed age and youth cannot live together; Youth is full of pleasure, age is full of care; Youth like summer morn, age like winter weather; Youth like summer brave, age like winter bare. Youth is full sport, age's breath is short; Youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, age is tame. Age, I do abhor thee; youth, I do adore thee.
~ William Shakespeare
I am thankful for a lawn that needs mowing, windows that need cleaning and gutters that need fixing because it means I have a home.
~ Nancie J. Carmody
Ho?e li umreti? —pitala je uplašeno mla?a sestra stariju. — Ne?e ako uspemo da joj na vreme damo dovoljnu koli?inu alkohola odgovorila znala?ki starija.
~ Ivo Andri?
He wanted to see her eat. After the sex, after he came inside her, he wanted to have her eat food he'd bought her, and he wanted her to take the stuff from his hand. Hell, he wanted to go out and kill something for her, bring the meat back, cook it himself, and feed her until she was full. Then he wanted to lie beside her with a dagger in his hand, protecting her as she slept.
~ J. R. Ward
I don't like the idea of you shivering unless I cause it. Stay warm. ----Roarke, Naked In Death
~ J.D. Robb
Roarke cares very much for Beth and for me, and a few select others. But loves? I'm not sure he'd let himself risk quite that unstable an emotion.
~ J.D. Robb
Friends give you a cushion for the fall, even when you think you don't need or want one.
~ J.D. Robb
A lot of nasty things grow out of love if it isn't ... tended right. Jealousy, hate, resentment, suspicion.
~ J.D. Robb
Take care of my cop.
~ J.D. Robb
Listen, if I can manage it, I'll try to swing home this afternoon for a bit. To—I don't know—help you out or something. His smile was warm and gorgeous. See there. You're acting like a wife. Shut up. I like it, he said, backing her against the door. Quite a bit. Next thing I know you'll be down in the kitchen, baking. Next thing you know I'll be kicking your ass, and you'll be the one who needs round-the-clock care. Can we play doctor?
~ J.D. Robb
You have to trust, or you're only living half a life. You have to try to help or even that half is empty.
~ J.D. Robb
He didn't say his first thought, always, was: Is she home? Is she safe?
~ J.D. Robb
He rose, pointed a finger at the cat when Galahad took a very casual step toward the table. Then pulled Eve in and kissed her. "Take care of my cop.
~ J.D. Robb
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection. —Sigmund Freud
~ J.D. Robb
Now that I'm a mother I understand being one means the most important thing in the world is keeping your child safe, well, happy.
~ J.D. Robb
Rather than trust her reflexes, she programmed for auto. And hoped the jokers down in Maintenance hadn't played any pranks with the mechanism. Still, she was too tired to care if she ended up in Hoboken.
~ J.D. Robb
Look after my cop," he called after her. "Just you try licking off that plate, boy-o," she heard him say to the cat, "and see what happens." It made her grin all the way downstairs.
~ J.D. Robb
His mind has become a refuge for old thoughts, idle, indigent, with nowhere else to go. He ought to chase them out, sweep the premises clean. But he does not care to do so, or does not care enough(72).
~ J.M. Coetzee
Un bambino ha bisogno del grembo materno per venire al mondo. Una volta che ha lasciato il grembo, la madre come datrice di vita è una forza esaurita, come il padre. Da quel momento in poi il bambino ha bisogno di amore e di cure che possono venire da un uomo come da una donna.
~ J.M. Coetzee
but a hospital, it seemed, was a place for bodies, where bodies asserted their rights.
~ J.M. Coetzee
Tienes alguna idea de quién era ese niño que vivía a tu cuidado? Él dice que sabías que era excepcional pero ¿tienes idea de cuán excepcional era realmente? No lo creo. Era rápido mentalmente y hábil con los pies: eso es lo que tú entiendes por excepcional.
~ J.M. Coetzee