Quotes About Responsibility

This is the thing about being a parent," she said. "Do a good job, and your kids feel like they can take on the entire world, and sometimes that involves a world that's not anywhere near you. Do a lousy job, and they cling to your skirt and suck their thumbs—which is not so attractive in an adult person—but you do get to see them. Like all the time. You've got to let go, Annie." "I've

would go through a decision tree to decide what to do: if it is a living thing like a person or a dog, slow down; if it is a living thing like a bird, it will probably move out of the way, so no need to slow down.

I have lived this life, and no matter what others may decide about it, I must claim each decision as mine. I have caused harm, failed in the expectations and obligations of love. I have loved well. What I do each day is carried within me until I die.

Some of us are the designated rememberers,

Why do you give people so much power over you? That M.D. behind his name just means that he's trained to facilitate your healing. You're the one who's actually got to make it happen. Therapy doesn't work unless you know what you want out of it. You're the one who has the power to change things.

Olivia made a face. "Piers is such an eldest brother!" she said. "He patronizes me. He's come up to town because my mother wrote about Toby and he thinks he ought to see him. Not wants to see him—ought. That's Piers for you!

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

I overheard a young man once saying to his wife, "I can't control you. That's the problem and it's been the problem ever since day one!" And then I heard her answer him and heard her terrible voice. "No!" she said. "The problem isn't that you can't control me, the problem is that you're trying to. Why don't you stop worrying about controlling me and start worrying about controlling yourself?

There isn't a more perfect person somewhere, only a more perfect person we might become, and there isn't a paradise someone can lead us to unless it's the world we make for ourselves when we stop expecting it to be delivered by someone else.

You load sixteen tons, what do you get?Another day older and deeper in debt.Saint Peter, don't you call me 'cause I can't goI owe my soul to the company store.

Being a coward consisting in abandoning his wife and children, for a woman of destructive adventure.

It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.

You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing.

There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation.

Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.

The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.

All living things have an obligation to live as best they can, no matter what pain comes to them.

Mothers never worry over nothing, but it is true that sometimes we worry over things we can't control.

A política é desses incêndios que se acendem na casa do outro e quem arde é a nossa casa.

Em toda a vida, teve um único desempenho: ser pai. E todo o bom pai enfrenta a mesma tentação: guardar para si os filhos, fora do mundo, longe do tempo.

Nenhum governo do mundo manda mais que o medo e a culpa. O medo me fez viver, recatado e pequeno. A culpa me fez fugir de mim, desabitado de memórias.

Your first period may unequivocally announce puberty, but your first 9–5 doesn't definitively mean you've grown up.

Cruz may not be everyone's favorite drinking buddy but America needs a designated driver and by God, Cruz will take America to a safe harbor.

distinguish between excusable and inexcusable mistakes,