Quotes About Responsibility

I'm a hopeless mother; a hopeless wife; I have to try harder. I'm just a pathetic case history, really.

Happiness is not everything and men have their duties. Mine is to find my mother, a homeland

A mother's job... is very much to hold back the coming of manhood.

You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.

You must not tell anyone,' my mother said, 'what I am about to tell you.'

many tender, delicate mothers, seem to think that to make their children eat, is all that is requisite to make them great.

We're finally going to get the bill for the Industrial Age. If the projections are right, it's going to be a big one: the ecological collapse of the planet.

If you try your best to be the best parent you can be, you will have done all that a human being can do and all that God expects you to do.

I don't remember my mother ever playing with me. And she was a perfectly good mother. But she had to do the laundry and clean the house and do the grocery shopping.

What instruction the baby brings to the mother!

It takes as much discipline to be a mother and a wife as it does to do anything else.

It's the job that I take most seriously in my life and I think it's the hardest job.

We need to get our sons and daughters home and their responsibility for the security of Iraq needs to be assumed by Iraqis who will stand up and toe the line for their countries.

I am a historian. With the exception of being a wife and mother, it is who I am. And there is nothing I take more seriously.

My mother is an office manager, my father a professor of economics and financial planner.

The wisest advice I ever received regarding the kitchen came from my mother: 'Do the dishes while you're cooking.

I am the person who is a mother against drunk driver.

A mother would never by choice sleep in a wet bed but she would gladly do so in order to spare the dry bed for her child.

Assoon as I stepped out of my mother's womb on to dry land, I realized that I had made a mistake?but the trouble with children is that they are not returnable.

Working mothers' laughter comes hardest when our double life is revealed for what it is: a juggling act in which the balls can drop at any time, invariably on our own head.

The heaviest of my crosses was that I could do nothing to lighten the cross my mother was suffering.

I did what all good Iriah dads do when faced with a worthy adversary..I said Ask your mother!!

A father's and a mother's age must be borne in mind; with joy on the one hand, fear on the other.

What one needs to know in order to appraise a man morally is not: what did his mother say or do when he was three? The proper question is: what does he say and do now?