Quotes About Responsibility

I used to spill things on my t-shirts, leaving oily dark spots down the front that I would try to hide with loose-fitting dress shirts. Nowadays all I have to do is tell everyone my son did it. I skirt the 'slob' moniker and instead look like a dedicated father who doesn't even have time to change.

The mere mention of domestic service brings some people out in spots of outrage, but there is a crying need for relatively low-level employment. It's ridiculous that people at the top are killing themselves in demanding jobs and then coming home to mow their own lawns.

Having a child is not like taking a spouse; there is no mutual agreement entered into. It is up the parent to make the commitment.

We share responsibility. It's important to have a good spouse; that's where I sympathize with single parents.

You can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your children. But they remain your co-authors forever.

To see your spouse in a parental role is one of the most incredible things.

The life of a congressional spouse is harder than the life of the member. They do all the work and get none of the recognition.

When men or women make their work their top priority and become hostile to the normal, natural needs of their children and spouse - obviously, something is wrong.

You can be as devoted and loving a spouse or a caregiver or child, but you also have to remember that you have to program time for yourself in there, because it will renew you.

The foundation of a financial fresh start actually has nothing to do with money or specific financial dos and don'ts. The first, and most difficult, step is to absolve yourself and your spouse or partner of any guilt.

If you want to improve a relationship, it's not that you demand your spouse to change. You have to ask, 'Where did I fail in this relationship?'

No matter how much you love your spouse, you won't love them in the same way you do your baby. It's a different love, and everything changes. You have to figure out how to parent together.

I was good at being a doctor; my patients liked me. At times people trust you with things they wouldn't tell their spouses. It was a real privilege.

Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.

Sometimes new spouses don't fully process the commitment they've made until after the deal is done, and then they panic.

If you think I have the power to determine when people leave their spouses, you attribute far too much credit to me.

'Daughters of Britannia' is a fascinating book, not least because it shines a light on a very dark corner of Foreign Office dealings. Diplomatic spouses are the Aunt Sallys of the foreign service: responsible for nearly everything, recognised for almost nothing.

I did not know that if a member of a family serves, the whole family serves. I did not know that the spouses of our service members carry such a heavy load.

Look, I do spray flies, but I have a really big conscience.

Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

Perhaps I shouldn't have been influenced by the idea that my name could be spread across the entire world.

I don't want to be in the clubhouse, if I have the coronavirus or something like that, coming into the clubhouse and spread to everybody, that's not good, right?

It's an important social duty to spread the word of English to people whose livelihoods depend on knowing the language.

Frightened people want to protect themselves, sometimes without thinking about others. Often, they get angry and want to find someone to blame for catastrophe. Inevitably, they spread information without checking if it's true.