“Where are the schools that you have waited for your children to have, that have never come? Where are the roads and the highways that you send your money to build, that are no nearer now than ever before? Where are the institutions to care for the sick and disabled? Evangeline wept bitter tears in h…”— Huey Long, en.wikiquote.org
“Now, just a word about the poor Negroes … They're here. They've got to be cared for … The poor Negroes have got to live, too.”— Huey Long, en.wikiquote.org
“...do not allow the baby to walk too soon or she will become bowlegged.”— Mary Todd Lincoln, amazon.com
“I don’t want to care. If I care about things, it’ll just be worse, it’ll just be another thing to worry about. It’s less painful if I don’t care.”— Bret Easton Ellis, amazon.com
“I heard what you said. I’m not the silly romantic you think. I don’t want the heavens or the shooting stars. I don’t want gemstones or gold. I have those things already. I want…a steady hand. A kind soul. I want to fall asleep, and wake, knowing my heart is safe. I want to love, and be loved.”— Shana Abe, amazon.com
“This isn’t lust. Lust wants, does the obvious… Love is greedier. Love wants round-the-clock care; protection; rings, vows, joint accounts; scented candles on birthdays; life insurance. Babies. Love’s a dictator.”— David Mitchell, amazon.com
“And when thou art weary I'll find thee a bed, Of mosses and flowers to pillow thy head.”— John Keats, amazon.com
“I wish I could care what you do or where you go but I can’t...My dear, I don’t give a damn.”— Margaret Mitchell, amazon.com
“We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.”— Eleanor Roosevelt,, myhero.com
“Love isn’t a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.”— Fred Rogers, amazon.com
“Even when I detach, I care. You can be separate from a thing and still care about it.”— David Levithan, amazon.com
“You didn’t think about it because you never lost it. If you never thought about it you couldn’t lose it.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“We don’t exist unless there is someone who can see us existing, what we say has no meaning until someone can understand, while to be surrounded by friends is constantly to have our identity confirmed; their knowledge and care for us have the power to pull us from our numbness”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“To be shown love is to feel ourselves the object of concern: our presence is noted, our name is registered, our views are listened to, our failings are treated with indulgence and our needs are ministered to. And under such care, we flourish.”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“I’m independent and strong, but sometimes…just sometimes, it’s nice to be taken care of.”— Samantha Towle, amazon.com
“Americans are really good at acute compassion, but pretty bad at chronic empathy. We, without question, haul strangers out of a raging flood, give blood, give food, give shelter. But we are lousy at legislating safe, sustainable communities, at eldercare, at accessible streets and buildings. It is t…”— Sigrid Ellis, twitter.com
“Changing the world is good for those who want their names in books. But being happy, that is for those who write their names in the lives of others, and hold the hearts of others as the treasure most dear.”— Orson Scott Card, amazon.com