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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

  People, Transition, Machines

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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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• 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

  Mother, Men, Doctors

  Source: collider.com

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• 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

  Peace, People, Purpose

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• 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

  Mother, Jobs, Growing Up

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• 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

  Years, Culture, World

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

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

  Jim Rohn

  Care, Take Care, Jailer

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• 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

  Home, Land Use, Hands

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

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• 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

  Men, Transition, Needs

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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

  Mason Cooley

  Children, Ignorance, Terror

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• 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

  Mother, Flower, Sleep

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• 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

  Children, Two, Parent

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• 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

  Fall, Self, Dying

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

  Doc Childre

  Children, Compassion, Parent

  Doc Lew Childre (1995). “A Parenting Manual: Heart Hope for the Family”, Heartmath Llc

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• 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

  Love Life, Caring, Giving

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

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• 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

  Heart, Animal, Compassion

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

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• 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

  Doctors, Suffering Of Others, Nurse

  Source: www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu

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

  Debra Messing

  Teacher, Children, Parent

  Source: www.elle.com

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• 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

  Country, Men, Breadwinner

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• 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

  Jobs, Men, Cedars

  Source: www.pbs.org

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