Quotes About Responsibility

My kids became mine through a series of overt acts

But being an addict means that you never stipulate to being an adult. You may, as the occasion requires, adopt the trade dress of a grown-up, showing responsibility and gravitas in spurts to get by, but the rest of the time, you do what you want when you want.

As a father, I do everything my dad didn't do. My son Beau's birth changed my life.

Born to be a husband and a father, he found himself, through no fault of his own, when near on seventy, a childless widower; well liked by many, but needed by none.

Freedom without responsibility? What freedom is that? None at all.

Must we not protect children with all we are? And so the future.

Yes,' growled Fell, 'for animals do not know what they do, but man has knowledge of his cruelty.

But of all the animals, man holds the fate of the world in his hands.

The future?' came the voice sadly...'And do we really pass anything on to the future, except mirrors of ourselves? What if the future is as painful as the past?' 'That we can never know,'answered the wolf angrily. 'That's for the future. But what we can know is the importance of what we owe the present. Here and now...What we owe to ourselves, and to those we're bound to. And we can at least hope to make a better future, for everything.

A major league pitching coach is a really difficult job. It takes a big commitment in terms of time, travel and workload.

I have brought you to the treasure house of the world. If you leave without it you may henceforth blame nobody but yourself.

one of the leader's most valuable but least valued contributions is avoiding trouble, not addressing it once it's occurred).

remember, when you write things down, you commit to doing them. If you simply tell me what you want to do, there is really no commitment to getting it done.

We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.

The power of collecting and disbursing money at pleasure is the most dangerous power that can be entrusted to man

A man's wife can hold him devilish uneasy, if she begins to scold and fret, and perplex him, at a time when he has a full load for a railroad car on his mind already.

As a citizen, of course. As a parent, of course. But as an artist, that's where the paradox is - your responsibility is to be irresponsible. As soon as you talk about political or social responsibility, you've amputated the best limbs you've got as an artist.

The internet is now a forum for public prosecution.

Keep saying no to her, Since she was a baby. Keep saying no to her, Not even maybe. from "Why?" by the Byrds

Abandoned babies are unfortunate unwanted results of a once urgent desire to have an orgasm

It's a really, really scary thing to stand here, to put words in people's mouths to say to God. It's terrifying to me. You potentially could mess someone up for...I don't know, eternity.

Ultimately you, and only you, can make yourself consistently happy. No one else can.

The real man gains renown by standing between his family and destruction, absorbing the blows of fate with equanimity.

Witness calls for with ness, the complete opposite of detached observation... To receive the witness of another is to enter into a vision that isn't accessible to us in isolation; we realize ourselves as members of one another and feel compelled to act accordingly, finding that we can't easily live with ourselves if we don't.