Stewardship Quotes - Page 14

• I owe a lot to my dad, just for having provided the wrestling business for us to get into.

  Owen Hart

  Dad, Wrestling, My Dad

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• I've come to understand my role. On some level, I provide the context for them to shine. I also know my role is the steward of the songs, and the center point, the artist that the stuff all revolves around. But I really try to honor that.

  Kathy Mattea

  Song, Artist, Shining

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• If there is neither excessive wealth nor immoderate poverty in a nation, then justice may be said to prevail.

  Thales

  Justice, Environmental, May

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• I'll go back and take what the people owe me.

  Mike Tyson

  People

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• The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth.

  Stewart Udall

  Giving, Environmental, Earth

  Stewart L. Udall (1963). “The Quiet Crisis”

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• And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all humans are acting out their parts.

  James Broughton

  Vision, Acting, World

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• We owe our success to them, and also to the fact that, as the saying goes, two "Eds" are better than one.

  Edmond H. Fischer

  Two, Facts

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• We need to win something for the fans because they have been patient and very understanding and we owe them.

  Jamie Redknapp

  Winning, Understanding, Fans

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• A food waste reduction hierarchy-feeding people first, then animals, then recycling, then composting-serves to show how productive use can be made of much of the excess food that is currently contributing to leachate and methane formation in landfills.

  Carol Browner

  Animal, People, Environmental

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• We have become, by the power of a glorious evolutionary accident called intelligence, the stewards of life's continuity on earth. We did not ask for this role, but we cannot abjure it. We may not be suited to it, but here we are.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Roles, Earth, May

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History”, p.431, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Our destruction of nature is not just bad stewardship, or stupid economics, or a betrayal of family responsibility; it is the most horrid blasphemy. It is flinging God's gifts into His face, as if they were of no worth beyond that assigned to them by our destruction of them.

  Wendell Berry

  Betrayal, Stupid, Responsibility

  Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.308, Counterpoint

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• The old Indian teaching was that is is wrong to tear loose from its place on the earth anything that may be growing there. It may be cut off, but it should not be uprooted. The trees and the grass have spirits. Whatever one of such growth may be destroyed by some good Indian, his act is done in sadness and with a prayer for forgiveness because of his necessities.

  Wooden Leg

  Prayer, Teaching, Native American

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• ... let everyone regard himself as the steward of God in all things which he possesses.

  John Calvin

  Stewards, All Things, Regard

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• Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.

  E. O. Wilson

  Blessed, Enemy, Energy

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• When a man becomes a Christian, he becomes industrious, trustworthy and prosperous. Now, if that man, when he gets all he can and saves all he can, does not give all he can, I have more hope for Judas Iscariot than for that man!

  John Wesley

  Christian, Men, Giving

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• President Obama has expressed his commitment to responsible stewardship of our land, water, and other natural resources. And one way of restoring the land to its natural condition is what we are doing here today - breaking pavement for the People's Garden.

  Tom Vilsack

  Commitment, Garden, Land

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• I owe everything to the army.

  Norman Wisdom

  Army

  Norman Wisdom, William Hall (1992). “Don't laugh at me: an autobiography”, Vintage

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