Caretakers Quotes

• Caring for children is a dance between setting appropriate limits as caretakers and avoiding unnecessary power struggles that result in unhappiness.

  Charlotte Sophia Kasl

  Inspirational, Dance, Children

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• I think women are natural caretakers. They take care of everybody. They take care of their husbands and their kids and their dogs, and don't spend a lot of time just getting back and taking time out.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Marriage, Dog, Husband

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. September 15, 2005.

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• Most families need both parents to work. Moms need to be able to work and earn fair pay and have the flexibility in their jobs to also be primary caretakers.

  Joan Blades

  Family, Mom, Jobs

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• Love is fragile. And we're not always its best caretakers. We just muddle through and do the best we can. And hope this fragile thing survives against all odds.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Song, Love Is, Odds

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Jun 05, 2011

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• Sometimes I feel like a caretaker of a museum -- a huge, empty museum where no one ever comes, and I'm watching over it for no one but myself.

  Haruki Murakami

  Museums, Sometimes, Empty

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• We must now become not just takers from the ocean, but caretakers of it.

  Sheldon Whitehouse

  Ocean

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• Through no divine design or cosmic plan, we have inherited the mantle of life's caretaker on the earth, the only home we have ever known.

  Michael Shermer

  Home, Design, Earth

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• The foundation for our self-image is grounded in the first three years of life. It comes from our major caretaker's mirroring.

  John Bradshaw

  Self Esteem, Years, Foundation

  John Bradshaw (2010). “Bradshaw On: The Family: A New Way of Creating Solid Self-Esteem”, p.49, Health Communications, Inc.

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• If you're a caretaker, who are you when there's no one else to take care of?

  Mary McCormack

  Care, Take Care, Ifs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If we deny our awesome challenge; turn our backs on the living universe, and forsake our cosmic destiny, we will commit a crime of unutterable magnitude. Mankind alone has the power to carry out this fundamental change in the universe. Our failure would lead to consequences unthinkable. This is perhaps the first and only chance the universe will ever have to awaken from its long night and live. We are the caretakers of this delicate spark of Life. To let it flicker and die through ignorance, neglect, or lack of imagination is a horror too great to contemplate.

  Marshall Savage

  Ignorance, Moon, Night

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• It is the first time the burglar has been appointed as caretaker.

  Gough Whitlam

  Political, Firsts, First Time

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• Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do.

  Yusef Komunyakaa

  Matter, Language, Poet

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• You must be kind to others. You must foster a caretaker personality of gentleness and perseverance, even in the midst of adversity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Perseverance, Adversity, Buddhism

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• Opening the fridge door, I found a rat eating the cheese. My dealings with rodents, particularly those tagged verminous, have been few, but generally the pattern has been one of man, the boss, the caretaker of creation, the namer, appearing and the lower orders hitting the road.

  Tibor Fischer

  Men, Doors, Order

  Tibor Fischer (1997). “The Thought Gang”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• The caretaker needs to be taken care of, in wages and benefits. Not enough emphasis is put on the importance of these caretakers.

  Chad Urmston

  Taken, Needs, Wages

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• Every step we take towards making the State our Caretaker of our lives, by that much we move toward making the State our Master.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Moving, Historical, Steps

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• What the women do is become caretakers for the men. In those circumstances, I decided, and many others have, that there's a reality called women's space. There has to be a separate space for women.

  Mary Daly

  Reality, Men, Space

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• We stand up and proudly proclaim that Washington is not our caretaker and we reject a state, in Margaret Thatcher's words, a state that takes too much from us to do too much for us.

  Rick Perry

  Too Much, States, Rejects

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• I don't hide my feelings, but when it comes to illness, I guess I don't panic. My father was the same way. I'm the provider for the family and the caretaker. If I panic, who is anybody going to run to?

  Curt Schilling

  Sports, Running, Father

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• I've always been a caretaker; I think a lot of women are. We take care of everybody else first, and very rarely do we think about ourselves.

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  Thinking, Firsts, Care

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• If it is perfectly acceptable for a widow to disfigure herself or commit suicide to save face for her husband's family, why should a mother not be moved to extreme action by the loss of a child or children? We are their caretakers. We love them. We nurse them when they are sick. . . But no woman should live longer than her children. It is against the law of nature. If she does, why wouldn't she wish to leap from a cliff, hang from a branch, or swallow lye?

  Lisa See

  Mother, Suicide, Children

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• I didn't run for mayor to be the caretaker of the status quo.

  Michael Nutter

  Running, Challenging The Status Quo, Challenging Status Quo

  "Philadelphia Is Going Nuts for Mayor Michael Nutter". abcnews.go.com. February 13, 2008.

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• The things a man sees when he ain't got a gun.--Watson the Caretaker

  Stephen King

  Gun, Men, Watson

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• Agreements. Specifically, a treaty ratified by all the orders of whimsical like forms who dwell here that affords a measure of security for mortal caretakers. In a world where mortal man has become the dominant force, most creatures of enchantment have fled to refuges like this one.

  Brandon Mull

  Men, Order, World

  Brandon Mull (2007). “Fablehaven”, p.84, Simon and Schuster

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• We don't own the earth. We are the earth's caretakers...we take care of it and all the things on it. And when we're done with it, it should be left better than we found it.

  Katherine Hannigan

  Earth, Care, Done

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