Quotes About Responsibility

It is no use blaming the men – we made them what they are – and now it is up to us to try and make ourselves – the makers of men – a little more responsible.

The first time Adam had a chance, he laid the blame on woman.

Helplessness in the face of a child's suffering is the curse of parenthood.

the writing is writ large on the wall: Mother Earth will continue to punish us with floods, famines, and fires until we learn to behave as custodians of the natural world rather than as its conquerors.

It is the professional's responsibility to reach out and make the extra effort to connect with parents who seem resistant to becoming involved.

I tend to instantly regret every serious new responsibility I take on. I always want to take it back.

The 6s, of course, was the worst time in the world to try to bring up a child. They were exposed to all these crazy things going on.

But Jack, you're just a Captain and I'm the General. I order you not to go. He tried to smile, . . . .These orders, he whispered, come from the Commander in Chief.

The best thing a girl can be is a good wife and mother. It is a girl's highest calling. I hope I am ready.

Our children weigh hard on my heart, and thinking about them growing up honest and healthy, or just living to grow up at all, makes a load in my chest that is bigger than the safe at the bank, and more valuable to me than all the gold inside it.

I thought I was leading them, but the truth was, I was just following them, holding up a lantern.

It is a hard thing to let your children near danger, and yet, I remember my Papa teaching me to fire a rifle before I could even hold it with my own strength. And if he hadn't trusted me to be careful, I would have never had faith in myself to do it.

You cannot apologize for my feelings. You may apologize for your actions

Children are a burden to a mother, but not the way a heavy box is to a mule. Our children weigh hard on my heart, and thinking about them growing up honest and healthy, or just living to grow up at all, makes a load in my chest that is bigger than the safe at the bank, and more valuable to me than all the gold inside it.

The best thing a girl can be is a good wife and mother. It is a girl's highest calling. I hope I am ready.

Children are a burden to a mother, but not the way a heavy box is to a mule. Our children weight hard on my heart, and thinking about them growing up honest and healthy, or just living to grow up at all, makes a load in my chest that is bigger than the safe at the bank,and more valuable to me than all the gold inside it.

Rape does for a woman's sexual fantasy what the first martini does for her in reality: both relieve her of responsibility and guilt.

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The only way to guarantee smart decisions, Ike believed, was to bring all the responsible parties together and have them fight it out. "I do not believe in bringing them in one at a time and therefore being more impressed by the most recent one you hear," he said later. "You must get courageous men, men of strong views and let them debate and argue with each other.

Edith's father had always told her that if you wanted to measure the character of a man, then watch how he dealt with his servants.

When will you human monsters stop twisting innocent people into beasts and putting the world at risk?

Seeing themselves as hardworking and self-reliant, the upwardly mobile sons of white trash parents believed, as Smith put it, that "he is responsible for himself and himself alone." The same self-made man who looked down on white trash others had conveniently chosen to forget that his own parents escaped the tar-paper shack only with the help of the federal government. But now that he had been lifted to respectability, he would pull up the social ladder behind him.

more insidious practices in the colony, wives and children were held accountable for their husband's or father's indentured period of labor.

I adopted a highway. I'm trying to teach it to pick up after itself.