Custodians Quotes

• As custodians of the planet it is our responsibility to deal with all species with kindness, love, and compassion. That these animals suffer through human cruelty is beyond understanding. Please help to stop this madness.

  Richard Gere

  Kindness, Responsibility, Compassion

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• Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources - and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on in the future.

  Alberto Moravia

  Law, Generations, Inheritance

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• Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Motivation, Life And Love, Creativity

  Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price (2001). “Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead”, p.98, David R. Godine Publisher

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• If the authors and custodians of history turn out to have an attractive image, it is only reasonable to look beyond and ask whether the image they construct is accurate.

  Noam Chomsky

  Looks, Attractive, Accurate

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• People are the custodians of the world's wealth; if you want them to hand some over to you, you have to be nice to people!

  Stuart Wilde

  Inspirational, Nice, Hands

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• A garden was one of the few thing in prison that one could control. To plant a seed, watch it grow, to tend it then harvest it, offered a simple but enduring satisfaction. The sense of being the custodian of this small patch of earth offered a taste of freedom.

  Nelson Mandela

  Simple, Garden, Watches

  Nelson Mandela (2013). “Long Walk To Freedom”, p.312, Hachette UK

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• We are the custodians of life's meaning.

  Carl Sagan

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.76, Ballantine Books

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• Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.

  August Wilson

  Black, Experience, Situation

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• The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Courage, Travel, Adventure

  "Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead" by Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price, Ch. 12, (p. 100), 1954.

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• We talk about theatre museums filled with old costumes and things. What we also need is a theatre museum of the old routines on videotape. We are only the custodians of those techniques, and they should be preserved.

  Jim Dale

  Museums, Theatre, Technique

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Government, Goal, Would Be

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• Universities are the custodians not only of the many cultures of man, but of the rational process itself.

  Edward H. Levi

  Men, Culture, He Man

  Edward H. Levi (2008). “Point of View: Talks on Education”, p.182, University of Chicago Press

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• The truth is that you are nothing more than the custodian of your inner and outer wealth while you are on this planet. All you have to decide is what kind of custodian do you want to be? Do you want to be a good custodian of your inner and outer wealth? Or a bad custodian?

  Suze Orman

  Want, Kind, Wealth

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• I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence, structure, syntax, these things are driven into us, and my parents, bless them, are great custodians of the English language.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Country, Parent, Syntax

  "In the name of the father". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2003.

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• God has given a new revelation of himself in modern times and we are the custodians of the message.

  Mark E. Petersen

  Missionary, Messages, Modern

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• The surplus wealth we have gained to some extent at least belongs to our fellow beings; we are only the temporary custodians of our fortunes, and let us be careful that no just complaint can be made against our stewardship.

  Jacob Schiff

  Stewardship, Wealth, Made

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• The constitution is the ultimate custodian of social will and its making should be accorded all due diligence.

  Mwai Kibaki

  Due Diligence, Constitution, Social

  Mwai Kibaki (2003). “Building a working nation: speeches by H.E. President Mwai Kibaki : December 2002 - July 2003”

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• Al forms of consensus about ''great'' books and ''perennial'' problems, once stabilized, tend to deteriorate eventually into something philistine. The real life of the mind is always at the frontiers of ''what is already known.'' Those great books don't only need custodians and transmitters. To stay alive, they also need adversaries. The most interesting ideas are heresies.

  Susan Sontag

  Real, Book, Ideas

  Susan Sontag (1983). “A Susan Sontag reader”, Vintage

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• The party of God and the party of Literature have more in common than either will admit their texts may conflict, but their bigotries coincide. Both insist on being the sole custodians of the true word and its only interpreters.

  Frederic Raphael

  Party, Literature, May

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• Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable. If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal.

  Carl Sagan

  Goal, Purpose, Fables

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.76, Ballantine Books

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• The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage. We are the custodians of life's meaning. We long for a Parent to care for us, to forgive us our errors, to save us from our childish mistakes. But knowledge is preferable to ignorance. Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable. If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal.

  Carl Sagan

  Mistake, Ignorance, Errors

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.76, Ballantine Books

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• The reality is that no group of countries has any grounds for complacency about its own human rights performance and no group of countries does itself justice by automatically slipping into the "victim" mode . . . .

  Kofi Annan

  Country, Reality, Rights

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• The vitality of thought is in adventure. Idea's won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervour, live for it, and, if need be, die for it. Their inheritors receive the idea, perhaps now strong and successful, but without inheriting the fervour; so the idea settles down to a comfortable middle age, turns senile, and dies.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Strong, Adventure, Science

  Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price (2001). “Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead”, p.98, David R. Godine Publisher

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• We are only the temporary custodians of the particles which we are made of. They will go on to lead a future existence in the enormous universe that made them

  Stephen Hawking

  Goes On, Made, Enormous

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