Quotes About Responsibility

Every Christian must see themselves as the link to the next generation," writes William Barclay.

Our downfall as a species is that we are arrogant enough to think that we can control Mother Nature and stupid enough to think it is our job.

The need to do what's right, and maybe find a little adventure along the way." Poe shifted in his seat. "You remind me of my brother," Leia said softly. "Fly like him, too, apparently." Poe looked at her, surprised and flattered at once.

You get them to the main gate, don't stop until you're outside," Bell tells her, then turns, directing his words at the others. "You understand? All of you, follow Lilac. Follow Lilac. Don't stop. Run." "Lily runs," the girl says softly. "Lilac dances." "Not today," Lilac says. "Today, we run so fast that Lily won't believe it when we tell her. Right?" The girl nods, wide-eyed.

A birth control pill for men, that's fair. It makes more sense to take the bullets out of the gun than to wear a bulletproof vest.

The world doesn't get better on its own. It gets better because people make it better: penny by penny, vote by vote, and one lesson at a time. So: Start where you are. Use what you have. Help who you can.

Working over 21 hours in a stretch increases the odds of you making a catastrophic error just as much as being legally drunk.

There is no position in sport as noble as goaltending." —Vladislav Tretiak, goaltender "The only job worse is a javelin catcher at a track-and-field meet." —Lorne "Gump" Worsley, goaltender

A single bad decision can open a world of lamentable consequences.

A baby takes everything from you. Everything you were before." She waved a hand, a ghostly flicker in the blackness. "Your time. Your figure. Your looks. They take your sleep until you don't know how to function.

The opportunity to be imprisoned or free is ours, and we're the only ones who can make the choice.

Together, we create the healing or the suffering, the peace or the war.

we can no longer consider ourselves merely onlookers who have no effect on the world that we're observing.

Key 20: We must become in our lives the very things that we choose to experience in our world.

Man did not weave the web of life—he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself."1

We need to be shaping our kids into arrows that will fly straight to the target God has set for them. If we're not carefully shaping and aiming our arrows, others will try to steal them and shape them for their use. What's worse, they will aim our children at targets of their own choosing. We should never be surprised if we are wounded by the members of our own family, if we have allowed sworn enemies of Christ to aim them.

Travers shifted uneasily in her chair. "Sir, can't you give us more time on this? Marlow's a hell of a guy to unleash in this situation—it's like letting a fifteen-year-old loose in a whorehouse, if you'll pardon the metaphor." "It's a simile. And I want him.

You betrayed me. You betrayed me as father to the son who is father to the man. It was your responsibility as my father and keeper to protect me from trespasses, from things that go bump in the night, from the urges and yearnings of other grown men. You didn't fulfill your duty and I was sold at the ripe age of seven to a carnal circus.

Jade turned around. "Fine," he said shortly. "Fine. I'll try to bring him in alive." "You will not try to bring him in alive, Mr. Marlow. You will bring him in alive. Don't equivocate on that point.

I'd tell my mother to, you know, go you-know-what herself and I would go help those children. They're in an orphanage and they've got family! That's sickening. What does John do? Nothing. His kids are in an orphanage... and he does nothing. ~ Michelle Jarvis

Around forty children die every year after they're forgotten in a car

She was only fifteen! What is the matter with these kids today? Can't they wait to have sex until they get their driver's license and can go somewhere?

Nothing ruins an ecosystem more than cementing it over. So what f*#!-ing difference does it make if you toss a butt on the ground?

Power is not to be dropped from a plane