Custodians Quotes - Page 2

• Writers are the custodians of memory, and that's what this chapter is about: how to leave some kind of record of your life and of the family you were born into.

  William Zinsser

  Memories, Records, Kind

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• Like an ethereal presence
  You hang out everywhere.
  Not a naughty or scary goblin,
  Rather, an inquisitive observer,
  A concerned, caring custodian,
  Visiting every niche and closet
  Where we stuff the undesired
  Of our messy, blemished lives,
  You haunt territories we ignore,
  Hoping we will find you there.

  Joyce Rupp

  Caring, Naughty, Scary

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• About two million years ago, man appeared. He has become the dominant species on the earth. All other living things, animal and plant, live by his sufferance. He is the custodian of life on earth, and in the solar system. It's a big responsibility.

  George Wald

  Life, Responsibility, Science

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• The arts are not simply skills: their concern is the intellectual, ethical, and spiritual maturity of human life. And in a time when religious and political institutions are so busy engraving images of marketable gods and candidates that they lose their vision of human dignity, the arts have become the custodians of those values which most worthily difine humanity, which most sensitively define Divinity.

  Robert Shaw

  Spiritual, Religious, Art

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• This world in which we live needs beauty in order not to sink into despair. Beauty, like truth, brings joy to the human heart, and is that precious fruit which resists the erosion of time, which unites generations and enables them to be one in admiration. And all this through the work of your hands . . . Remember that you are the custodians of beauty in the world.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Heart, Hands, Order

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• Women are special custodians of all that is pure and religious in life.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Religious, Women, Special

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.157, A&C Black

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• Individuals are custodians of the life stream -- temporal manifestations of far greater being, forming from and returning to their essence like so many dreams.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Dream, Essence, Individual

  Charles A. Lindbergh (1992). “Autobiography of Values”, Harcourt

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• I have been supremely lucky in my life in that I have known great love, and of course I am the temporary custodian of some incredible and beautiful things.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Beautiful, Great Love, Lucky

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Perhaps we have failed as human beings. Perhaps we have embarrassed ourselves to the natural world. We have been rigorous and willful in all the wrong ways. But it doesn't have to be this way. Maybe you don't want to deal with (marching), the permanent marker and poster board. But try something else. Carry someone's groceries. Chat with the custodian in your office building. Donate blood. Live in Rwanda for a year. Write letters to the Department of Buildings. Learn to knit. It is only going to get better from here on out.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Writing, Blood, Years

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• Justice! Custodian of the world! But since the world errs, justice must be custodian of the world's errors.

  Ugo Betti

  Errors, Justice, World

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• America must remain, at any cost, the custodian of freedom, human dignity and economic security. The United States must be strong, so that no nation may dare attack.

  Louis B. Mayer

  Strong, America, United States

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• The people of America care about baseball, not about your squalid little squabbles. Reassume your dignity and remember that you (players during the 1981 strike) are the temporary custodians of an enduring public trust.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Baseball, Player, America

  "Baseball's lesson for Washington" by Bob Greene, www.cnn.com. October 14, 2013.

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• Leaders are the custodians of a nation's ideals, of the beliefs it cherishes, of its permanent hopes, of the faith which makes a nation out of a mere aggregation of individuals.

  Walter Lippmann

  Leader, Belief, Cherish

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• It is impossible to wait and weigh, in golden scales, the sentiments of prejudice and superstition that have gathered round the priests who are considered to be the custodians of Hinduism.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Waiting, Prejudice, Superstitions

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “None High: None Low”

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• The Masonic movement... is the custodian of the law; it is the home of the Mysteries and the seat of initiation. It holds in its symbolism the ritual of Deity, and the way of salvation is pictorially preserved in its work. It is a far more occult organization than can be realised, and is intended to be the training school for the coming advanced occultists. In its ceremonials lie hid the wielding of the forces connected with the growth and life of the kingdoms of nature and the unfoldment of the divine aspects in man.

  Alice Bailey

  Lying, Home, School

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• Prisoner of War guard companies, or an equivalent organization, should be as far forward as possible in action to take over prisoners of war, because troops heated with battle are not safe custodians. Any attempt to rob or loot prisoners of war by escorts must be dealt strictly with.

  George S. Patton

  Military, War, Organization

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• Museums are custodians of epiphanies, and these epiphanies enter the central nervous system and deep recesses of the mind.

  George Lois

  Museums, Mind, Nervous

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• America is a friend of freedom everywhere, but a custodian only of our own.

  John Quincy Adams

  America, Liberty

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• The media is supposed to be custodians of the facts and watchdogs of government. They have, for the most part, neglected to be either of those things.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Government, Media, Facts

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• I believe this nation hungers for a spiritual revival; hungers to once again see honor placed above political expediency; to see government once again the protector of our liberties, not the distributor of gifts and privilege. Government should uphold and not undermine those institutions which are custodians of the very values upon which civilization is founded-religion, education and, above all, family. Government cannot be clergyman, teacher and patriot. It government is our servant, beholden to us.

  Ronald Reagan

  Spiritual, Teacher, Believe

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• You are the treasure custodian, cleaning the moon for me, scouring the sky so the stars would shine bright.

  Lisa Loeb

  Friendship, Stars, Moon

  Song: Alone, Album: Tails

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• But ask yourself this Eragon: If gods exist, have they been good custodians of alagaesia? Death, sickness, poverty, tyranny and countless other miseries stalk the land. If this is the handiwork of divine beings, then they are to be rebelled against and overthrown, not given obeisance, obedience, and reverance.

  Christopher Paolini

  Land, Poverty, Misery

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• Our human responsibility for animal rights, plant rights, and the rights of the earth to its health and wholeness is self-evident. Whatever our beliefs about the hereafter we are the temporary custodians of the here-and-now, and if we neglect our obligations or abuse our powers then we abrogate any rights to a further share in this planet's delights.

  Densey Clyne

  Responsibility, Animal, Rights

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• I believe we should try to move away from the vocabulary and attitudes which shape the stereotyping of developed and developing country approaches to human rights issues. We are collective custodians of universal human rights standards, and any sense that we fall into camps of "accuser" and "accused" is absolutely corrosive of our joint purposes. 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.

  Mary Robinson

  Country, Attitude, Believe

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