Guardian Quotes - Page 17

• You have the gift of a brilliant internal guardian that stands ready to warn you of hazards and guide you through risky situations.

  Gavin de Becker

  Hazards, Brilliant, Guides

  Gavin De Becker (1998). “The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals that Protect Us from Violence”, Dell Publishing Company

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• If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for more wise men reading more good books in more public libraries. These libraries should be open to all — except the censor. We must know all the facts and hear all the alternatives and listen to all the criticisms. Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors. For the Bill of Rights is the guardian of our security as well as our liberty.

  John F. Kennedy

  Wise, Strong, Reading

  Saturday Review, p. 44, October 29, 1960.

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• Mooner was walking around laying his hands on the cars, divining karma. "this is it", he said, standing by a small khaki-colored jeep."this car has protective qualities" You mean like a guardian angel?" I mean, like, it has seatbelts

  Janet Evanovich

  Karma, Mean, Angel

  Janet Evanovich (2007). “More Plums in One: Four to Score, High Five, and Hot Six”, p.600, Macmillan

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• Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get - -people,storms, guardian angels, or sheep.

  John Muir

  Angel, Sheep, People

  John Muir (2001). “Meditations of John Muir: Nature's Temple”

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• Librarians see themselves as the guardians of the First Amendment. You got a thousand Mother Joneses at the barricades! I love the librarians, and I am grateful for them!

  Michael Moore

  Mother, Grateful, Firsts

  "Muzzling Moore" by Kera Bolonik, www.salon.com. January 7, 2002.

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• Sometimes I think I must have a Guardian Idiot. A little invisible spirit just behind my shoulder, looking out for me...only he's an imbecile.

  Spider Robinson

  Thinking, Littles, Imbeciles

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• Through laziness and cowardice a large part of mankind, even after nature has freed them from alien guidance, gladly remain immature. It is because of laziness and cowardice that it is so easy for others to usurp the role of guardians. It is so comfortable to be a minor!

  Immanuel Kant

  Immature, Immaturity, Roles

  "Answering the Question: What is Enlightenment?". Essay by Immanuel Kant, 1784.

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• Lucy Fry and I became very good friends on the set…I called her ‘Royal Higness’ & she answered, ‘Yes, my Guardian.

  Danila Kozlovsky

  Good Friend, Royal, Very Good

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• When you are praying alone, and your spirit is dejected, and you are wearied and oppressed by your loneliness, remember then, as always, that God the Trinity looks upon you with eyes brighter than the sun; also all the angels, your own Guardian Angel, and all the Saints of God.

  John of Kronstadt

  Prayer, Loneliness, Eye

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• I think we all do have a guardian angel. I believe they work through us all the time, when we are thoughtful and good and kind to each other.

  Roma Downey

  Believe, Angel, Thoughtful

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• Trees have from time immemorial been closely associated with magic. These stout members of the vegetable kingdom may stand for as long as a thousand years, and tower far above our mortal heads. As such they are symbols and keepers of unlimited power, longevity, and timelessness. An untouched forest, studded with trees of all ages, sizes and types, is more than a mysterious, magical place - it is one of the energy reservoirs of nature. Within its boundaries stand ancient and new sentinels, guardians of the universal force which has manifested on the the Earth. . . .

  Scott Cunningham

  Vegetables, Years, Long

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• The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. Each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily, or mental or spiritual. Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest.

  John Stuart Mill

  Spiritual, Freedom, Health

  John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Troyer (2003). “The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill”, p.160, Hackett Publishing

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• a good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Inspirational, Anniversary, Marriage

  Rainer Maria Rilke, John J. L. Mood (1994). “Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations”, p.34, W. W. Norton & Company

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