Quotes About Care

Whom do I know who's alive whom I love? Good question—one that can bring you back to life. These days, I love Dan Needham and the Rev. Katherine Keeling; I know I love them because I worry about them—Dan should lose some weight, Katherine should gain some! What I

IF YOU CARE ABOUT SOMETHING, YOU HAVE TO PROTECT IT -- IF YOU'RE LUCKY ENOUGH TO FIND A WAY OF LIFE YOU LOVE, YOU HAVE TO FIND THE COURAGE TO LIVE IT.

Such a warm washcloth kind of sympathy was leaking from Dr. Gingrich that Larch felt wet—

IT DOESN'T MATTER WHERE YOU LEARNED IT -- IT'S A GIFT. IF YOU CARE ABOUT SOMETHING, YOU HAVE TO PROTECT IT -- IF YOU'RE LUCKY ENOUGH TO FIND A WAY OF LIFE YOU LOVE, YOU HAVE TO FIND THE COURAGE TO LIVE IT. - owen meany :')

In short,I might take seriously the idea of service to my country when my country begins to demonstrate that it gives a shit about me!

WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS COUNTRY?" Owen Meany asked. "WE SHOULD ALL BE AT HOME, LOOKING AFTER PEOPLE LIKE THIS. INSTEAD, WE'RE SENDING PEOPLE LIKE THIS TO VIETNAM!

He would deliver babies. He would deliver mothers, too.

Emma Oastler had made Jack's future her business

Is there something bad that could have been prevented if someone'd been watching over you?

And when thou art weary I'll find thee a bed, Of mosses and flowers to pillow thy head.

Be careful to let no fretting injure your health as I have suffered it—health is the greatest of blessings—with health and hope we should be content to live, and so you will find as you grow older.

Love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep on watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

When you cross the street, take my hand

the Massachusetts School for Idiotic Children

The God of the Christians is a father who is a great deal more concerned about his apples than he is about his children.

Other recommendations are generally simple and obvious: for example, keeping sick children home from school—which is standard behavior—and having sick adults stay home from work—which is not standard behavior

when faced with desperate patients, doctors often do not have the heart—or, more accurately, they have too much heart—to do nothing.

What could help, more than doctors, were nurses. Nursing could ease the strains on a patient, keep a patient hydrated, resting, calm, provide the best nutrition, cool the intense fevers. Nursing could give a victim of the disease the best possible chance to survive. Nursing could save lives.

Engaging in Socratic question-and-answer dialectic is the key and indispensable means by which to sustain this commitment to care for one's own soul.

I like people. Rightwingers don't. They like business, they don't care about people. I like education, they seem not to care much about it.

A kindergarten teacher is a woman who knows how to make little things count.

I can hear my brother's voice in my head. Your problem is that you're too emotional. But how can I not be emotional, Rowan? How can I not care?

To care only about your pain and suffering, and disregard the emotional toll of others is hypocritically sub-human.

While they would have provided financial support if I had needed it, the greatest support my parents gave was emotional, psychological.