Quotes About Guardianship

There is no ownership. There is only stewardship.

Protecting your treasure means to give your life for it.

I love animals and feel very strongly that people should not be allowed to buy a pet if they are not able to look after it.

If you can't look after something in your care, you have no right to keep it.

The rich world of his ancestors set the standards for Dietrich Bonhoeffer's own life. It gave him a certainty of judgment and manner that cannot be acquired in a single generation. He grew up in a family that believed the essence of learning lay not in a formal education but in the deeply rooted obligation to be guardians of a great historical heritage and intellectual tradition. —EBERHARD BETHGE

Don't be scared. I'll look after you.

The strong are God's natural protectors of the weak.

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Harriet was put in charge of taking care of her younger brothers and sisters when she was only four years old.

We are to see a need and meet it—no questions asked. We are to love even our enemies with an unconditional, nonjudgmental love, and, thereby, offer everlasting life to all who are thirsty. To do this means we must refrain from doing what Jesus never did: namely, positioning ourselves as wiser, morally superior guardians and "fixers" of others. Moral guardianship is what the Pharisees did—not Jesus.

I consider 'Dreadstar' to be an extension of my family, so it took me a while to feel comfortable letting anyone else take care of this project.

They're shepherds. A shepherd eats the sheep, but he loves them, protects them against the wolves, tends the flock and helps it multiply.

Names of a long list of kings, from Eremon downward, and important particulars regarding many of them, were preserved by the historical traditions — traditions that were as valuable, and as zealously guarded, as are the written State Records of modern days.[6]

God will protect me.

The people need the road. The people own the road. The Bosses only guard it!

Do you really think I'd let anything happen to you? That I'd let anyone hurt you? After everything I've done today to keep you breathing?

Cultural values change with times, unless they are built on an absolute standard of values and virtues. This standard must be afterwards well-guarded and protected.

Our souls are permanently empty. We have grown to presume everyone guilty at all times, thus creating hundreds of thousands of guards watching over our morality, conscience, purity of world view, compliance with the wishes of the authorities. We have turned truth into a crime. We have robbed nature to within a

most people are like sheep. Nice, harmless creatures who want nothing more than to be left alone so they can graze. But then of course there are wolves. Who want nothing more than to eat the sheep." He looked at his soup, then back to her. "But there's a third kind of person. The sheepdog. Sheepdogs have fangs like wolves. But their instinct isn't predation. It's protection. All they want, what they live for, is to protect the flock.

The person carrying me came to a halt and spoke. 'Take good care of her. I'll see you in two days.' It was the voice of Grimalkin.

A trust—in the sense of a valuable asset placed in the care of someone to whom it does not ultimately belong—captures, more or less, my understanding of what it is to have a child.

What do you mean to do with Maia when you do find her?" the professor asked that night. "Take her back to the Keminskys and never let her out of my sight again," said Miss Minton. "She may not find it easy." "Why on earth not? The Keminskys are the kindest people in the world." "Yes. But she has tasted freedom.

I want to remind people with dogs that they are your responsibility.

I had great representatives looking out for my best interests and safety. They just happened to be my parents.