Quotes about Care
Every man's his own friend, my dear," replied Fagin, with his most insinuating grin. "He hasn't as good a one as himself anywhere." Except sometimes," replied Morris Bolter, assuming the air of a man of the world. "Some people are nobody's enemies but their own, yer know." Don't believe that!" said the Jew. "When a man's his own enemy, it's only because he's too much his own friend; not because he's careful for everybody but himself. Pooh! Pooh! There ain't such a thing in nature.
— Charles Dickens
When a man's his own enemy, it's only because he's too much his own friend; not because he's careful for everybody but himself. Pooh! Pooh! There ain't such a thing in nature.
— Charles Dickens
DOMBEY sat in the corner of the darkened room in the great armchair by the bedside, and Son lay tucked up warm in a little basket bedstead, carefully disposed on a low settee immediately in front of the fire and close to it, as if his constitution were analogous to that of a muffin, and it was essential to toast him brown while he was very new.
— Charles Dickens
Nobody was hard with him or with me. There was duty to be done, and it was done, but not harshly.
— Charles Dickens
Little Dorrit was late on the Monday morning, for her father slept late, and afterwards there was his breakfast to prepare and his room to arrange. She had no engagement to go out to work, however, and therefore stayed with him until, with Maggy's help, she had put everything right about him, and had seen him off upon his morning walk (of twenty yards or so) to the coffee-house to read the paper.
— Charles Dickens
Went down into a modest life of usefulness and happiness. Went down to give a mother's care, in the fulness of time, to Fanny's neglected children no less than to their own, and to leave that lady going into Society for ever and a day.
— Charles Dickens
Take care that no one hates you justly.
— Publilius Syrus
Always kiss your children goodnight — even if they're already asleep.
— H Jackson Brown, Jr.
Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
— H Jackson Brown, Jr.
Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep.
— H Jackson Brown, Jr.
So long as I'm Commander-in-Chief, we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known. When you take off the uniform, we will serve you as well as you've served us - because no one who fights for this country should have to fight for a job, or a roof over their head, or the care that they need when they come home.
— Barack Obama
Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form.
— Gloria Steinem