Quotes About Family Who Are Sick

#1. This is America, and you have the right to remain sick. If you choose to treat yourself and your family, that is within your rights, and is necessarily your sole decision based on what you know to be best. - Author: Andrew Saul

#2. This girl who's slept a hundred years has something after all. It's called Centuryitis, and it has turned me into a man. Oh, what will mamma think when she sees me?!
-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz - Author: Karen Quan

#3. Her mother told her once that her father was sick. That the sickness made him do it. She made it seem logical. As if he was lying in a hospital bed with cancer rather than rotting in a prison cell for rape and murder. - Author: Anais Torres

#4. One way and another I was having a ball - playing gigs, jamming and listening to fine musicians. Then came a crisis at home. My stepfather fell sick, and it meant I had to support the family. - Author: Mary Lou Williams

#5. A small, weak part that just wanted to be a little girl again, with a family that wasn't sick and broken. But that sure wasn't going to happen, was it? - Author: James Patterson

#6. We participate and are responsible for a lot of the things that happen to us. If you hate your job, you are much more likely to get sick and die at a younger age than someone who's happy at work and has a nice family life and is mentally well adjusted. - Author: Bernie Siegel

#7. I was from a poor Jewish family in the South Bronx. My father was a plumber, but when I was 16, he got sick and I had to take over. Being a plumber in the South Bronx wasn't fun. - Author: Leonard Susskind

#8. I think - I think you have a conscience growing up in a loving family with a nurturing community. And I think what happens is, and that's part of the problem of being in the closet which is a very sick place. I mean it's self loathing. It's self denial. And you keep that separate. - Author: James McGreevey

#9. Anxiety is the illness of our age. We worry about ourselves, our family, our friends, our work, and our state of the world. If we allow worry to fill our hearts, sooner or later we will get sick. - Author: Nhat Hanh

#10. Every time I was playing basketball, I felt sick to my stomach. I didn't realize that feeling was having to leave my family - having to leave my sister, who can't even communicate with me when I'm gone. - Author: Elena Delle Donne

#11. I was horrified. Absolutely heart sick. All I could think of was that after 23 years together, I'd lost my faithful ally. I couldn't sleep, couldn't get the loss out of my mind. It was like discovering that someone in my family had died. - Author: Ben Crenshaw

#12. Everybody in my family had a real sick, twisted sense of humor. Most of the jokes we make in our house, we would just never even dream of making anywhere else. Just sick, horrible stuff. That wasn't anything new to college. - Author: Seth MacFarlane

#13. The health benefits of paid sick days policies are obvious. They prevent the spread of disease. But the impact is wider. If a working mom or dad loses a job because of sickness, the family may slip into poverty. - Author: Madeleine M. Kunin

#14. When someone's really sick and their family is tired and concerned about what will take place, those are the times that they need a support group around them to take care of them as a human being. - Author: Rodney Yee

#15. Sick people, particularly those with serious conditions, greatly prefer the company of their friends and family to residence in a hospital or nursing home. - Author: David Mixner

#16. No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick. - Author: Erma Bombeck

#17. But while the urban tribe helps us survive, it does not help us thrive. The urban tribe may bring us soup when we are sick, but it is the people we hardly know - those who never make it into our tribe - who will swiftly and dramatically change our lives for the better. - Author: Meg Jay

#18. My world got very small, the way it always does when someone in your family is sick. - Author: Anita Diamant

#19. I'm in three bands, and I love to produce records of other bands, and I have a family that I love. I wanted to be everything for everybody and do all of that ... I think I just really beat myself up until I got really sick and needed surgery, because it was physically manifesting itself. - Author: Josh Homme

#20. Providing working Minnesotans with at least seven days of paid sick leave every year is the right thing to do to. It benefits our families and helps our businesses become more worker friendly and family friendly. - Author: Mark Dayton

#21. My dad grew up with an avocado tree in his backyard. My entire family, my wife and daughters, they love avocado. I may well be allergic. It makes me physically sick. - Author: Ted Cruz

#22. More than 95 percent of the world's bacteria are harmless to humans. Many are extremely beneficial. Disinfectants have no place in a normal household. They are appropriate only if a family member is sick or the dog poops on the carpet. - Author: Giulia Enders

#23. In my family, you can rot to hell on the inside as long as you're flawless on the outside, which is really sick, but also hard to unlearn. - Author: Laura Wiess

#24. When the man who feeds the world by toiling in the fields is himself deprived of the basic rights of feeding, sheltering, and caring for his own family, the whole community of man is sick. - Author: Cesar Chavez

#25. I'm sick to death of being the heavy in everybody's life. - Author: J.D. Salinger

#26. The first axiom of the family vacation is that someone, possibly everyone, will get sick. - Author: Marni Jackson

#27. I came up in a family oriented towards the sick, so I always felt an obligation for doing something. - Author: Eddie Bernice Johnson

#28. I think of myself as a Hollywood hillbilly, but I'm sick of all these questions people ask about Alabama. 'Do you have an outhouse?' 'Is there a lot of inbreeding in your family?' They think all Southerners don't have computers and TV sets and that we're all still living in 1862. - Author: Sunny Mabrey

#29. I was sick of the body count that existed around my family. It seemed statistically that eventually the body count would include my family. - Author: Jessica Fortunato

#30. I feel very vulnerable when it has to do with family. Having lost my mom, who I was so extremely close to, now I feel so vulnerable when somebody gets sick or hurt. I become a complete wreck until they're well. Even if it's a cold! I compare myself to Marlin in Finding Nemo. - Author: Nancy O'Dell

#31. I guess I'm happy that I'm getting the attention. Otherwise, I'd just be playing in a local bar in front of my family members, and I'm sure they'd get sick of that in no time. - Author: Gavin DeGraw

#32. Workplaces need to respond to the reality of family life in the 21st century, and allowing employees to have seven sick days a year is a bare minimum, the fact that the United States is one of just a handful of countries that does not require paid family or sick leave is nothing short of shameful. - Author: Rosa DeLauro

#33. No one should go into debt if a family member gets sick or injured. - Author: Charles B. Rangel

#34. I'm sick of the images trapped in my head
I'm sick of being preoccupied with the dead - Author: Jessica-Lynn Barbour