Caretakers Quotes:

Beware of those who seek to take care of you lest your caretakers become your jailers.

- Jim Rohn

topic: Care, Take Care, Caretakers, Jailer

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

- Sheldon Whitehouse

topic: Ocean, Caretakers

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

- Charlotte Sophia Kasl

topic: Dance, Children, Struggle, Caretakers, Child Care

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

topic: Mom, Jobs, Parent, Caretakers

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

topic: Song, Love Is, Odds, Fragile Things, Against All Odds

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

topic: Marriage, Dog, Husband, Caretakers

We can hardly expect the nation-state to make itself superfluous, at least not overnight. Rather what we must aim for is really nothing more than caretakers of a bankrupt international machine which will have to be transformed slowly into a new one. The transition will not be dramatic, but a gradual one. People will still cling to national symbols.

- Henry Morgenthau, Jr.

topic: People, Transition, Machines, Caretakers

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

topic: Museums, Sometimes, Empty, Caretakers

Being an older person now, I'm finding that people are calling me to play various things. Variations on the theme of mother, caretaker, and in some cases, doctors, heads of organizations and things like that. For some people, I'm finally old enough to play those roles. We see men playing them when they're a little bit younger, and also in roles that call for some form of conflict and violence, either generating it or trying to curtail it. Women don't seem to be a big part of those common and often used movie themes.

- Barbara Crampton

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Mother, Men, Doctors, Caretakers

If only we could realize that our purpose is to be caretakers. We are responsible for leading our flock to the place where the grass is green, but it is up to them to eat! We cannot be responsible for how much they digest. We cannot make people mature.

- T. D. Jakes

topic: Peace, People, Purpose, Caretakers

The irresponsible mother helped explain bella's maturity. She'd had to grow up early, to become the caretaker. That's why she didn't like being cared for- she felt it was her job.

- Stephenie Meyer

topic: Mother, Jobs, Growing Up, Caretakers

The Visitors reported by contactees, abductees, and other witnesses may, in fact, be a highly advanced amphibian or reptilian culture from an extraterrestrial world, who evolved into the dominant species on their planet millions of years ago and who have interacted in Earth's evolution as explorers, observers, caretakers, and genetic engineers.

- Brad Steiger

source: Brad Steiger, Sherry Hansen Steiger (2011). “Real Aliens, Space Beings, and Creatures from Other Worlds”, p.67, Visible Ink Press

topic: Years, Culture, World, Caretakers, Dominant

If, on the other hand, conservationists are willing to insist on having the best food, produced in the best way, as close to their homes as possible, and if they are willing to learn to judge the quality of food and food production, then they are going to give economic support to an entirely different kind of land use in an entirely different landscape. This landscape will have a higher ratio of caretakers to acres, of care to use. It will be at once more domestic and more wild than the industrial landscape.

- Wendell Berry

source: Wendell Berry (2010). “Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food (Large Print 16pt)”, p.88, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: Home, Land Use, Hands, Willing To Learn, Caretakers

Women - - and men - - need to understand that a woman's transition is often much longer. The caretaker must leave the place of orientation to the needs of others to the place where she focuses on herself.

- Esther Perel

source: Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

topic: Men, Transition, Needs, Needs Of Others, Caretakers

Children would die of terror if they knew the folly and ignorance of their caretakers.

- Mason Cooley

topic: Children, Ignorance, Terror, Caretakers

Navajo infants get so attached to cradleboard that they cry to be tied into it. Kikuyu infants in Kenya get handed around several"mothers," all wives to one man. . . . Mothers in rural Guatemala keep their infants quiet, in dark huts. Middle-class American mothers talk a blue streak at them. Israeli kibbutz mothers give them over to a communal caretaker . . . Japanese mothers sleep with them. . . . All these tactics are compatible with normal health--physical and mental--and development in infancy. So one lesson for parents so far seems to be: Let a hundred flowers bloom.

- Melvin Konner

topic: Mother, Flower, Sleep, Caretakers, New Parents

Children thrive in a variety of family forms; they develop normally with single parents, with unmarried parents, with multiple caretakers in a communal setting, and with traditional two-parent families. What children require is loving and attentive adults, not a particular family type.

- Sandra Scarr

topic: Children, Two, Parent, Single Parent, Unmarried

the casualties among us include not just those who are dying, or bleeding, or recovering from injury, but also the caretakers around the edges whose selves fall sacrificed to their charges.

- Natalie Kusz

topic: Fall, Self, Dying, Caretakers

An aware parent loves all children he or she interacts with - for you are a caretaker for those moments in time.

- Doc Childre

topic: Children, Compassion, Parent, Caretakers, Foster Care

Caregivers attract caregivers and live in a community of love. They are energized by their caring, fulfilled, and they love life. Caretakers attract caretakers and live in the company of resentful victims who see themselves as misused and are fatigued from constant giving with no return.

- Gary Zukav

source: "Why Painful Things Happen to Good People" by Gary Zukav, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2013.

topic: Love Life, Caring, Giving, Caretakers, Caregivers

Animals should have rights and should be treated with compassion and empathy; we are their caretakers. If you don't have it in your heart to help them, then just leave them alone and do no harm.

- Katie Cleary

source: "Katie Cleary, President and Founder of Peace 4 Animals: Get Proactive!". Interview with Barbi Twins, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

topic: Heart, Animal, Compassion, Caretakers, Compassion And Empathy

When you see those in healthcare who don't get this burn-out, they are very motherly, fatherly, or loving and attentive with the patients. [These] wonderful caretakers, doctors, and nurses don't get as much burn-out as people who are more defensive of the feelings and suffering of others.

- Matthieu Ricard

source: Source: www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu

topic: Doctors, Suffering Of Others, Nurse, Burn Out, Caretakers

It's essentially encouraging parents, teachers, and caretakers to remind children how special they are on a regular basis.

- Debra Messing

source: Source: www.elle.com

topic: Teacher, Children, Parent, Caretakers

There was a time when only men could provide or work, and still a lot of countries are like that. But there's a price to be paid for that when you're expected to be the full-time caretaker and you're expected to be the full-time breadwinner.

- Patricia Arquette

topic: Country, Men, Breadwinner, Caretakers

Fortunately for me, I was able to see the newspaper and saw that they were hiring in a new program called the Cedar Program, and I recall going to one of my Olympic buddies and saying, "Hey, man, this might be a shot in the arm for us. Let's go down and apply for these Cedar jobs."I took a job as a gardener caretaker.

- John Carlos

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Jobs, Men, Cedars, Caretakers

I grew up near King's Cross station in London, living in an apartment block where my dad was a caretaker.

- Phil Daniels

topic: Kings, Dad, Block, Caretakers

We could overcome the baser aspects of our nature... and give this planet the kind of caretakers it deserves.

- Jon Stewart

topic: Giving, Overcoming, Kind, Caretakers

I'm still useful in my capacity as an arts educator and caretaker for the stray dogs.

- Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Dog, Art, Educator, Stray Dogs, Caretakers

Being a caretaker is, and never will be, an easy job; in fact, it is that hardest job in the world and many times a thankless job. You have to be the pillar of strength even when you feel like you are crumbling to pieces inside.

- Jenna Morasca

source: "Jenna Morasca and Ethan Zohn Share Their Story of Love, Survivor and Battling Cancer". Interview with Rosemary Brennan, www.glamour.com. May 10, 2011.

topic: Jobs, Crumbling, Pieces, Caretakers, Pillar Of Strength

Isolation of the caretaker role is a real danger. That way lies sadness.

- Christopher Noxon

source: "Interview with a Plus One". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. February 13, 2015.

topic: Lying, Real, Sadness, Caretakers

Lily, the caretaker's daughter, was literally run off her feet. Hardly had she brought one gentleman into the little pantry behind the office on the ground floor and helped him off with his overcoat, than the wheezy hall-door bell clanged again and she had to scamper along the bare hallway to let in another guest. It was well for her she had not to attend to the ladies also.

- James Joyce

topic: Daughter, Running, Book, Pantry, Overcoat

The absolute deterioration of the wiki concept is just a matter of time. Once spam mechanisms are developed to eat into these systems, the caretakers will be too busy to stop the public-driven deterioration.

- John C. Dvorak

source: "The Wikification of Knowledge". www.pcmag.com. July 11, 2005.

topic: Deterioration, Matter, Busy, Caretakers, Spam

Older homeless people are more likely to be women, because they don't have pensions and they are caretakers, so they withdraw from the workforce and end up having no pension if their husband leaves them, so the whole thing is just a nightmare.

- Patricia Arquette

source: "Patricia Arquette: On Boyhood, Motherhood, and Womanhood". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

topic: Husband, People, Nightmare, Caretakers, Homeless People

One of the things that's troubling is that people see Natalie Portman or some other Hollywood starlet who boasts of, hey look, you know, we're having children. We're not married, but we are having these children and they're doing just fine. And I think it gives a distorted image that, yes, not everybody hires nannies and caretakers and nurses.

- Anna Holmes

source: Source: www.npr.org

topic: Children, Thinking, Nurse, Caretakers, Starlets

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

- Michael Nutter

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

topic: Running, Mayors, Status Quo, Caretakers, Challenging Status Quo

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

topic: Done, Earth, Care, Caretakers

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

topic: Taken, Needs, Wages, Caretakers

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

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

topic: Men, Order, World, Whimsical, Caretakers

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

- Stephen King

topic: Gun, Men, Watson, Caretakers

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

topic: Mother, Suicide, Husband, Loss Of A Child, Caretakers

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

topic: Thinking, Care, Firsts, Caretakers

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

topic: Sports, Running, Father, Caretakers

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

topic: Reality, Men, Space, Caretakers

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

topic: Moving, Historical, Steps, Caretakers

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

- Mary McCormack

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

topic: Care, Take Care, Caretakers

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

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

topic: Men, Order, Doors, Fridges, Caretakers

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

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Perseverance, Adversity, Buddhism, Caretakers, Be Kind To Others

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

- Yusef Komunyakaa

topic: Matter, Language, Poet, Caretakers

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

- Gough Whitlam

topic: Political, Firsts, First Time, Burglars, Caretakers

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

topic: Ignorance, Moon, Night, Long Nights, Caretakers