Quotes About Responsibility

Clementine learned to feel bad about her white middle-class privilege long before it became fashionable.

Nobody ever told you that being a mother is all about making what seemed like thousands of tiny decisions. Tess had always considered herself quite a decisive person before she had Liam.

John-Paul did not have the requisite organizational abilities to handle bigamy. He would have slipped up long ago. Turned up at the wrong house. Called one of his wives by the wrong name. He'd be constantly leaving his possessions at the other place.

C'est à la mère de surveiller son enfant. Et tant pis pour le féminisme. Pam était capable de hurler sur les toits pour défendre l'égalité des salaires, mais toutes les femmes savaient qu'on ne pouvait pas compter sur les hommes en société. Il était scientifiquement prouvé qu'ils étaient incapables de faire deux choses à la fois!

matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.

so easily have said no. But she and her husband Sam said yes, and now they can never change what they did and didn't do that

I'm not going to ask you to carry this too, if you can't carry it.

Mothers took their mothering so seriously now.

This type of thing was always happening to John-Paul. Last time he went overseas he'd left his laptop in a cab. The man lost things constantly. Wallets, phones, keys, his wedding ring. His possessions just slid right off him.

No one warned you that having children reduced you right down to some smaller, rudimentary, primitive version of yourself, where your talents

Ruby is the littler one, right?" said Erika's mother in her regular voice. "How old is she? Two?" "Yes," said Clementine. "What happened? Nobody saw her fall in? Where was her mother? What was Clementine doing?

At last we had someone to blame for our miseries. Cadres, workers, soldiers, intellectuals, and peasants, people of all different degrees of political awareness.

A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.

If it were possible for every person to own a tree and to care for it, the good results would be beyond estimation.

Truly, men make too little use of their lives; and so it is no wonder that the world should still be in such a poor way.

What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

Where moderation is a fault indifference is a crime.

Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had 600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.

What we do upon a great occasion will probably depend upon what we already are; what we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline.

It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find.

Nobody's born rotten. You just don't have bad kids. It's not true. There is no such thing. But we can make them bad.

Qualquer que seja ou venha a ser o nosso destino, somos nós que o fazemos, e não nos lamentamos.

Nigga we in charge, baby put me in charge, and Im just murdering niggas free of charge.

I know my role and I play it well.