We Are Custodians Quotes

#1. We are custodians of deep and ancient thresholds. In the human face you see that potential and the miracle of undying possibility.

John O'Donohue

#2. Individuals are custodians of the life stream
temporal manifestations of far greater being, forming from and returning to their essence like so many dreams.

Charles Lindbergh

#3. Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.

August Wilson

#4. As custodians of the planet it is our responsibility to deal with all species with kindness, love, and compassion. That these animals suffer through human cruelty is beyond understanding. Please help to stop this madness.

Richard Gere

#5. Parents are temporary custodians, keeping watch and offering love and trying to leave the child better than they found him.

Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

#6. Custodians of our peace of mind, the focus of our understandable and rightful dread of being inferior; official censors, judges, and executors.

Ray Bradbury

#7. Parliament is more than procedure - it is the custodian of the nation's freedom.

John Diefenbaker

#8. America is a friend of freedom everywhere, but a custodian only of our own.

John Quincy Adams

#9. We are the custodians of our bodies. We must take action to employ healthy lifestyle habits to prevent, reduce, and/or manage disease and illness.

Bridgette L. Collins

#10. Writers are the custodians of memory, and that's what this chapter is about: how to leave some kind of record of your life and of the family you were born into.

William Zinsser

#11. Leaders are the custodians of a nation's ideals, of the beliefs it cherishes, of its permanent hopes, of the faith which makes a nation out of a mere aggregation of individuals.

Walter Lippmann

#12. We live in a vast and awesome universe in which, daily, suns are made and worlds destroyed, where humanity clings to an obscure clod of rock. The significance of our lives and our fragile realm derives from our own wisdom and courage. We are the custodians of life's meaning.

Carl Sagan

#13. Women are special custodians of all that is pure and religious in life.

Mahatma Gandhi

#14. We are only the temporary custodians of the particles which we are made of. They will go on to lead a future existence in the enormous universe that made them

Stephen Hawking

#15. Museums are custodians of epiphanies, and these epiphanies enter the central nervous system and deep recesses of the mind.

George Lois

#16. Guides were Franciscan monks, sole custodians of the holy places after 1230, who recited the history and traditions associated with each town or monument or site of Biblical events to parties of visitors as they arrived. More

Barbara W. Tuchman

#17. In most Muslim countries women are the custodians of their male relatives' honor. If

Geraldine Brooks

#18. Not only the Archivist alone but all who work for NARA are designated custodians of America's national memory.

Allen Weinstein

#19. It is not wealth, it is not station, it is not social standing and ambition which can make us worthy of the Jewish name, of the Jewish heritage. To be worthy of them, we must live up to and with them. We must regard ourselves their custodians.

Louis D. Brandeis

#20. People are the custodians of the world's wealth; if you want them to hand some over to you, you have to be nice to people!

Stuart Wilde

#21. When I discovered that I had been made custodian of this gift, in my earliest childhood, I pledged myself to God to be worthy of it, but I have received uncovenanted mercies all my life. The custodian has too often kept faith on his all-too-worldly terms.

Igor Stravinsky

#22. The people of America care about baseball, not about your squalid little squabbles. Reassume your dignity and remember that you (players during the 1981 strike) are the temporary custodians of an enduring public trust.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

#23. Prisoner of War guard companies, or an equivalent organization, should be as far forward as possible in action to take over prisoners of war, because troops heated with battle are not safe custodians. Any attempt to rob or loot prisoners of war by escorts must be dealt strictly with.

George S. Patton

#24. We talk about theatre museums filled with old costumes and things. What we also need is a theatre museum of the old routines on videotape. We are only the custodians of those techniques, and they should be preserved.

Jim Dale

#25. I believe we should be good custodians of the Earth.

Jonathan Nolan

#26. Smells are custodians of memories.

Kathleen Tessaro

#27. The party of God and the party of Literature have more in common than either will admit their texts may conflict, but their bigotries coincide. Both insist on being the sole custodians of the true word and its only interpreters.

Frederic Raphael

#28. It is impossible to wait and weigh, in golden scales, the sentiments of prejudice and superstition that have gathered round the priests who are considered to be the custodians of Hinduism.

Mahatma Gandhi

#29. Government should uphold-and not undermine-those institutions which are custodians of the very values upon which civilization is founded: religion, education and, above all, family.

Ronald Reagan

#30. We remain the custodians of the idea that wealth should be obtained through

Dinesh D'Souza

#31. The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.

Alfred North Whitehead

#32. The police cannot be considered simply the custodians of the legal order, but must be seen as the guardians of the social order as well. That they defend it wearing blue uniforms rather than white sheets is a matter of only minor importance.

Kristian Williams

#33. We are the custodians of people's memories You

Mary-Louise Parker

#34. That's what children eventually were for their aging parents: custodians of technology, free personal IT departments keeping them from disappearing forever from the universal cloud.

Christopher Bollen

#35. Members of the Congress, the Constitution makes us not rivals for power but partners for progress. We are all trustees for the American people, custodians of the American heritage. It is my task to report the State of the Union
to improve it is the task of us all.

John F. Kennedy

#36. The truth is that you are nothing more than the custodian of your inner and outer wealth while you are on this planet. All you have to decide is what kind of custodian do you want to be? Do you want to be a good custodian of your inner and outer wealth? Or a bad custodian?

Suze Orman

#37. Men after the heart of God become the moral conscience, the guidance and custodians of justice, not simply in the security of the four walls of their church

Sunday Adelaja

#38. Teachers spend most of their daytime hours with children. Teachers at every level, coaches, counselors, cafeteria workers and yes, custodians, spend their hours trying to make children's lives different, if not always better.

Susan Straight

#39. The media is supposed to be custodians of the facts and watchdogs of government. They have, for the most part, neglected to be either of those things.

Janeane Garofalo

#40. I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence, structure, syntax, these things are driven into us, and my parents, bless them, are great custodians of the English language.

Daniel Day-Lewis

#41. The surplus wealth we have gained to some extent at least belongs to our fellow beings; we are only the temporary custodians of our fortunes, and let us be careful that no just complaint can be made against our stewardship.

Jacob Schiff

#42. The women of the Green Belt Movement have learned about the causes and the symptoms of environmental degradation. They have begun to appreciate that they, rather than their government, ought to be the custodians of the environment.

Wangari Maathai

#43. God has given a new revelation of himself in modern times and we are the custodians of the message.

Mark E. Petersen

#44. Universities are the custodians not only of the many cultures of man, but of the rational process itself.

Edward Levi