Quotes About Responsibility

Excuses are contagious, self-defeating bad habits. Where

Guns aren't evil people are evil. Once we get rid of evil we can get rid of guns.

One time I got a D on my report card and my mom said What do I have to say about that? and I said Hey, at least I didn't cheat.

Yet he knew that destiny played with lives; the most a parent could do was help steer.

All native languages are in danger of dying in Canada. We must each do our part in any way we can to preserve these languages. Cree is my native tongue, the first language I spoke when I came into this earth, so I feel it's my responsibility to do whatever I can to help preserve it.

I'd lose my mind if I heard my kid call the nanny Mommy.

Words are to be taken seriously. I try to take seriously acts of language. Words set things in motion. I've seen them doing it. Words set up atmospheres, electrical fields, charges. I've felt them doing it. Words conjure. I try not to be careless about what I utter, write, sing. I'm careful about what I give voice to.

Words are to be taken seriously. I try to take seriously acts of language. Words set things in motion.

If your house ain't in order, you ain't in order. It is so much easier to be out there than in here.

Like I use to tell my daughter's daddy, the key to getting along and living with other folks is to keep clear whose weight is whose.

The choices I make today are my outcomes for tomorrow.

A terrible sadness threatened to overwhelm me as I wondered how two people capable of such love for each other had eventually felt so little for the child they had produced between them.

We were young, she continued, while she had a bad heart. Did we not want to earn our tips, she asked us and, cowed, we refrained from introducing the subject again. Her bad heart, I noticed, did not force her to abstain from smoking, or from eating large portions of puddings. Every time I heard her opening how she could not carry anything heavy, I thought sourly "except yourself".

Why, Tony, why didn't you ever let me grow up?

I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.

You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.

The body is ready to have babies. Nature wants it done then, when the body can handle it, not after 40, when the income can handle it.

I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.

The function of freedom is to free someone else.

The basic problem is that most Western countries have privatised the next generation. Having children tends to be regarded as a personal choice rather than a social good.

Humans are cowards; they leave their problems for their children to sort out.

The world was slipping down into Hell, and everyone was helping it on its way. Everyone accepted a little bit of money, and a little bit of blame, and that way they could all walk around with a conscience that was just a little bit off-color. Just a little bit, but add all those bits together ...

You humans ... always looking for a sensei, always handing over responsibility for your actions to a higher power.

I have five questions that I ask people who have power, and I recommend them to the House. If I see someone who is powerful, be it a traffic warden, Rupert Murdoch, the head of a trade union or a Member of Parliament, I ask myself these five questions: "What power have you got? Where did you get it? In whose interests do you exercise it? To whom are you accountable? How can we get rid of you?" That last question is crucial.