Quotes for All
What’s been important in my understanding of myself and others is the fact that each one of us is so much more than any one thing. A sick child is much more than his or her sickness. A person with a disability is much, much more than a handicap. A pediatrician is more than a … Read more
When a chap is in love, he will go out in all kinds of weather to keep an appointment with his beloved. Love can be demanding, in fact more demanding than law. It has its own imperatives – think of a mother sitting by the bedside of a sick child through the night, impelled only … Read more
Love is staying up all night with a sick child – or a healthy adult. David Frost
Looking after a very sick child was the Olympics of parenting. Chris Cleave
But even if he has been wicked, pursued Rose, think how young he is; think that he may never have known a mother’s love, or the comfort of a home; that ill-usage and blows, or the want of bread, may have driven him to herd with men who have forced him to guilt. Aunt, dear … Read more
If you treat a sick child as an adult and a sick adult as a child, it usually works out pretty well. Black Hawk
A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship – and you know what, a father does, too. It’s time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a ‘Mad Men’ episode. Barack Obama
It would be more in keeping with the intention of the noblest man in this world if our two Christian churches, instead of annoying Negroes with missions which they neither desire nor understand, would kindly, but in all seriousness, teach our European humanity that where parents are not healthy it is a deed pleasing to … Read more