Quotes About Responsibility

Parenting is an impossible job at any age.

I hope to find the roles that are age appropriate but not yearning to be younger, or parenting ad nauseam.

Most guys my age have girlfriends and drinking buddies on their speed dial. Me, I have the Memphis CDC.

You can bring your children under age 18 into the voting booth with you. Many families do so as a way to teach civic responsibility.

I have friends my age who started smoking pot when they got out of college. They didn't get anywhere. But if they drank, they managed to go somewhere. Does that make sense?

I think 40 is a good age to run a country. But I've always been fast.

What a terrible thing it would be to be the Pope! What unthinkable responsibilities to fall on your shoulders at an advanced age! No privacy. No seclusion. No sin.

I've never had much sympathy for orphans, I mean, when I was their age I would have killed to have no parents to make me clean my room and stuff

Age carries with it a double load of guilt.

Well, we certainly need to raise the retirement age. I've told my 19-year-old and my 22-year-old that they're not going to be getting retirement benefits at age 62.

I became a poet at the age of sixteen. I did not intend to do it. It was not my fault.

In this day and age it's really stupid to be stupid about financial matters. It doesn't do you any good to make money if you don't know what to do with it other than spend it.

In all the ages, three-fourths of the support of the great charities has been conscience money.

On Spaceship Earth there are no passengers; everybody is a member of the crew. We have moved into an age in which everybody's activities affect everybody else.

I found out that colonels can stay until they drop dead or get a walker and being a critical medical specialty as an Army trained emergency room doctor, I could stay until age 67.

She's too young for Medicare and too old for me to care.

Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

When you die, i.e., when your physical body is finished with this earth ... and your astral entity goes on to the astral world ... it has to stand alone and answer for successes and failures.

The leader is always alone before bad fates.

The thing I like about baseball is that it's one-on-one. You stand up there alone, and if you make a mistake, it's your mistake. If you hit a home run, it's your home run.

You don't have the right to be left alone with that abortion decision. The child is present...you are not alone.

You who choose to lead must follow. But if you fall, you fall alone.

And here I was, left with only myself to deal with. It was entirely up to me.