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Quotes About Dependency

A guy needs somebody?to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. Don't make no difference who the guy is, long's he's with you. I tell ya, I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an' he gets sick.
~ John Steinbeck
When you're a child you're the center of everything. Everything happens for you. Other people? They're only ghosts furnished for you to talk to.
~ John Steinbeck
I could be held back just by being needed. Please try not to need me. That's the worst bait of all to a lonely man.
~ John Steinbeck
Books ain't no good. A guy needs somebody—to be near him." He whined, "A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. Don't make no difference who the guy is, long's he's with you. I tell ya," he cried, "I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an' he gets sick.
~ John Steinbeck
They were fed and clothed and taken care of until they were too old, and then they were kicked out. This ending was no deterrent. No one who is young is ever going to be old.
~ John Steinbeck
The bank - or the Company - needs - wants -insists - must have - as though the bank or the Company were a monster, with thought and feeling, which had ensnared them... The banks were machines and masters all at the same time... They breathe profits; they eat the interest on money. If they don't get it they die... It is a sad thing, but it is so. It is just so.
~ John Steinbeck
There is no loneliness like that of one who can only give and no anger like that of those who only receive and hate the weight of debt.
~ John Steinbeck
Prayer never brought in no side-meat.
~ John Steinbeck
If a bank or a finance company owned the land, the owner man said, The Bank—or the Company—needs—wants—insists—must have—as though the Bank or the Company were a monster, with thought and feeling, which had ensnared them. These last would take no responsibility for the banks or the companies because they were men and slaves, while the banks were machines and masters all at the same time.
~ John Steinbeck
A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody.
~ John Steinbeck
Neden beklemiyorsun ki? İleriye bak! Denizde daha iyi bal?klar var!' diyeceksiniz. Ama d??ar?dan bak?yorsunuz. Size ÅŸunu söyleyeyim ki, benim için daha iyi bal?k yok, hatta denizde baÅŸka bal?k yok. Bu bal?k olmazsa deniz ?ss?zla??r. Bunu kafan?za sokun!
~ John Steinbeck
A guy needs somebody—to be near him." He whined, "A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. Don't make no difference who the guy is, long's he's with you. I tell ya," he cried, "I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an' he gets sick.
~ John Steinbeck
but with his mother there's no question of liking him they're not even in a way separate people he began in her stomach and if she gave him life she can take it away and if he feels that withdrawal it will be the grave itself.
~ John Updike
Nature leads you up like a mother and as soon as she gets her little contribution leaves you with nothing.
~ John Updike
Look upward to himLook to him for everythingLook to him for answersLook to him for a listening ear
~ April Nichole, Eyes to Heaven
Babies control and bring up their families as much as they are controlled by them; in fact ... the family brings up baby by being brought up by him.
~ Erik Erikson
The welfare culture tells the man he is not a necessary part of the family; he feels dispensable, his wife knows he is dispensable, his children sense it.
~ George Gilder
The black family unit that had survived 150 years of slavery was decimated in less than 30 years by welfare payments that stopped if the family structure remained intact.
~ Larry Burkett
My family is my strength and my weakness.
~ Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
You know how the bonds of family are, my lady... They cling as tightly as vines. And sometimes, like vines, they cling tightly enough to kill.
~ Cassandra Clare
Whatever shift is necessary is dependent on the scale on which it can be implemented, which is to say in your local community and family.
~ Peter Buffett
Some people have concerns about what it means to leave our responsibilities to robots. I think to some degree in every family, you've got siblings who disagree over the care for their parents.
~ Unknown
The Jewish man with parents still alive is a fifteen-year-old boy and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die.
~ Philip Roth
You see things really different when your father is so intimately, so indisputably in charge of your continued existence on the planet.
~ Leigh Newman