Quotes About Responsibility

I still get the kids to the doctor and dentist and plan their play dates and buy their clothes.

Taking care of yourself is being there for your kids, like how on a plane, they tell you to put on your oxygen mask first.

The men and women who make up a plane's crew put their lives in jeopardy each time they fly. It's our job as much as anyone's to make sure we make it as safe as possible up there for them.

The only time I can't sleep is on a plane, when I am literally keeping it in the air with my brain.

If you are someone's guest on a corporate jet, the most important thing to remember is not just to be on time, but to be early. If you hold up the departure of the jet by as much as 10 minutes, you may cause the plane to wait in line for another hour or two before obtaining new clearance.

Yes, I take a private plane on holiday a couple of times a year, and I feel horribly guilty about it. I probably shouldn't do it. But the truth is, I'm not perfect.

Let me tell you something, planes and kids... I've got a 3 and 1 year old, I don't wish that on anybody.

The implication that depressed people are fundamentally irresponsible is a deeply damaging and counterproductive one. Winston Churchill was a depressive. He didn't just fly planes; he was in charge of the Royal Air Force.

I get a lot of mud slung at me, and yes, I do take planes, but I feel that's my life. My life is to travel and also to speak out about the horrors of an environment that is being abused at the hands of an irresponsible oil company.

If you were the only person left on the planet, I would have to attack you. That's my job.

We need to think of the future and the planet we are going to leave to our children and their children.

This planet came with a set of instructions, but we seem to have misplaced them. Civilization needs a new operating system.

I think we need to take responsibility for the things we put on this planet, and also take responsibility for the things we take off the planet. We need to have limiters on how far we allow ourselves to go - ethical, moral limiters.

The way I see it, the earth is going to be here after we're dead and gone. Even if it's a polluted planet, and they messed it up. Where do they go from here - to another planet so they can mess that up too?

We seem to think we have some control over this planet.

How we are using up our home, how we are living and polluting the planet is frightening. It was evident when I was a child. It's more evident now.

Time is running out if we want our next generations and the generations after that to continue living on this beautiful planet.

NASA should start thinking about this planet.

Human nature is to blame for everything, innit? We're just a disease on this planet.

Take good care of our fragile planet.

We can't continue to take from our planet the way we do and not give anything back, and the idea of, 'Oh, but it's fine, I won't have to deal with it in my lifetime,' well, you need to think about the future generations who will have to deal with it.

I think the dangers are different now. Our abuse of the planet and our resources is an anxiety.

I don't think the world will destroy itself in a nuclear cataclysm. On the contrary, we have the capacity to save ourselves and save the planet, and we will use it.

We owe it to each other - and to our children and grandchildren - to leave our planet in a better state than when we found it.