“It says that alcoholism is a disease, and that it gets passed on from generation to generation. I've told my kids about that: "You've got the crazy gene in you, guys. When it comes time to kick back with the buddies, drink a beer, and watch a football game, just realize that there will be a day when that thing turns on you. So you better keep an eye on it".” EyeKidsGuyTurnsGamesRealizingWatchesGenerationsCrazyFootballDrinkDiseaseBeerKicksGenesAlcoholismBuddyFootball Game Author:Nikki Sixx
“It is the disease of cowards, who do not have the courage to speak upfront and so talk behind one's back... Watch out against the terrorism of gossip!” SpeakBehindsWatchesDiseaseTerrorismGossipCoward Author:Pope Francis
“I loved my husband very much, and it was heartbreaking to have him develop Alzheimer's disease, and to stand by and watch him decline in his ability to take care of himself.” CareAbilityWatchesHusbandDiseaseTake CareMy HusbandDeclineHeartbreakingAlzheimerAlzheimer's Author:Sandra Day O'Connor
“There are worse things than finding your wife and child dead. You can watch the world do it. You can watch your wife get old and bored. You can watch your kids discover everything in the world you've tried to save them from. Drugs, divorce, conformity, disease. All the nice clean books, music, television. Distraction.” WorldChildrenBookKidsWatchesNiceWifeTelevisionDrugDiseaseFindingsCleanDivorceBoredConformityDistraction Book:Lullaby Source: Lullaby
“My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death.” KindRealCountryBodyCareWatchesProtectDiseaseComfortableEternalInstitutionsMereWinterLoyaltyCeasePatriotismClothingsLoyalReal ThingsRaggedDisease And Death Book:A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Source: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
“A little kid asks my dad why that man is chopping down the tree. Dad: He's not chopping it down. He's saving it. Those branches were long dead from disease. All plants are like that. By cutting off the damage you make it possible for the tree to grow again. You watch - by the end of summer, this tree will be the strongest on the block.” MenLittlesLongEndsKidsAsksSpeakGrowsWatchesCuttingTreeDadDiseaseSummerPlantMy DadBlockSavingDamageBranchesStrongestLittle KidChoppingEnd Of SummerCutting Off Author:Laurie Halse Anderson
“I wake up wating you. I fall asleep wanting you. I watch a magnificent sunrise and can think only of sharing it with you. I glimpse a piece of amver and see your eyes. Jillian, I've caught a disease, and the fever abates only when I'm near you.” ThinkingEyeFallWatchesPiecesDiseaseWake UpCaughtMagnificentSunriseGlimpseFeverWanting You Author:Karen Marie Moning
“If you have it, it is for life. It is a disease for which there is no cure. You will go on riding even after they have to haul you on a comfortable wise old cob, with feet like inverted buckets and a back like a fireside chair... when I can't ride anymore, I shall still keep horses as long as I can hobble about with a bucket and a wheelbarrow. When I can't hobble, I shall roll my wheelchair out to the fence of the field where my horses graze, and watch them.” IfsLongStillsI CanWatchesWiseFeetFieldsGoes OnDiseaseComfortableHorseCuresChairsRidingFenceBucketsHaulWheelchairsInvertedWheelbarrows Author:Monica Dickens
“In too many cases, the moms, the dads, the sisters and brothers of children with cancer must stand by a hospital bed and watch helplessly as this horrible disease consumes the life of an innocent child.” ChildrenWatchesCasesBrotherMomDadBedDiseaseCancerHorribleInnocentHospitalsBrothers And SistersHospitalitySisterInnocent Children Author:Michael McCaul