Quotes About Responsibility

A statement on the political responsibility of the critic: the critic must attempt to fully realize, and take responsibility for, the unspoken, unrepresented pasts that haunt the historical present.

A widow has two tasks before her, whose duties clash: she is a mother, and yet she must exercise parental authority.

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

Conscience, my dear, is a kind of stick that everyone picks up to thrash his neighbor with, but one he never uses against himself.

Parent may hinder their children's marriage; but children cannot interfere with the insane acts of their parents in their second childhood.

Why did the father of these poor girls, the Comte de Granville, a wise and upright magistrate (though sometimes led away by politics), refrain from protecting the helpless little creatures from such crushing despotism? Alas! by mutual understanding, about ten years after marriage, he and his wife were separated while living under one roof. The father had taken upon himself the education of his sons, leaving that of the daughters to his wife.

No sooner therefore do you enter society, instead of living a life apart, than you are bound to consider its conditions binding; a contract is signed between you.

To bear a child is nothing; to nourish it is birth renewed every hour.

If you want to use a cliche you must take full responsibility for it yourself and not try to fob it off on anon., or on society.

Qui sine peccato est vestrum primus in illam lapidem mittat," he said to me.

I didn't always want to be a dad.

Dear math, grow up and solve your own problems I am tired of solving them for you.

I try to be a hard boiled sometimes. My kids see right through it. I'm acting. It's always, 'When I say you'll be back at 11, that means 11, not 11.15. Do you hear me!?' Then, 'Yeah, Dad.'

It's an ongoing joy being a dad.

I have to make it my job to be careful with my family.

I do believe at the end of the night when you're with your family, the character gets hung up on the door like a coat, and is there to be taken on the next morning.

Todo joven comete errores -dijo Makoto-. Es nuestro destino tener que convivir con las consecuecias.

les parents ne mettaient des enfants au

There is no Hell, other than that which men make on earth.

If parents had children who were good sleepers, they assumed this was due to their good parenting, not good luck.

When someone you loved was depending on your lie, it was perfectly easy.

The boys had always been her reason to stay, but now for the first time they were her reason to leave. She'd allowed violence to become a normal part of their life.

It was always like that. They never said sorry. They just threw down their still-loaded weapons, ready for next time.

No one warned you that having children reduced you right down to some smaller, rudimentary, primitive version of yourself, where your talents and your education and your achievements meant nothing. Clementine