Guardian Quotes - Page 4

• When you see sparkling lights with no physical origin and no medical eye issues, it means that you are seeing Angel Lights, which are the energies of your Guardian Angels and Archangels moving around you.

  Doreen Virtue

  Inspiring, Moving, Mean

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• You have the highest of human trusts committed to your care. Providence has showered on this favored land blessings without number, and has chosen you as the guardians of freedom, to preserve it for the benefit of the human race. May He who holds in his hands the destinies of nations, make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed, and enabled you with pure hearts and hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time, the great charge He has committed to your keeping.

  J. Reuben Clark

  Integrity, Patriotic, Heart

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• In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Love, Past, Affection

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• The cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy. It is the only dictator that free man acknowledges. It is the only security that free man desires.

  Mirabeau B. Lamar

  Education, Money, Men

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• The people of every country are the only safe guardians of their own rights, and are the only instruments which can be used for their destruction. And certainly they would never consent to be so used were they not deceived. To avoid this they should be instructed to a certain degree.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Rights, People

  Thomas Jefferson (1984). “Jefferson: Writings”, p.1601, Library of America

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• My mother has become my daughter and I've become her guardian.

  Phillip Lim

  Daughter, Mother, My Daughter

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• I swear I will not dishonor my soul with hatred, but offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature, as a healer of misery, as a messenger of wonder, as an architect of peace.

  Diane Ackerman

  Commitment, Compassion, Hatred

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “I Praise My Destroyer: Poems”, p.3, Vintage

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• [The People] are the ultimate, guardians of their own liberty.

  Thomas Jefferson

  People, President, Liberty

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• Ancient tradition always depicts a true Chinese musician as blind. Esoterically, this implies that his gift of the divine art is so completely guided by, and dedicated to, hosts of the celestial guardians, that both his sight and consciousness are focused above and beyond the objective world.

  Corinne Heline

  Art, Inspiration, Sight

  Corinne Heline (1965). “Music: the keynote of human evolution”

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• From his soft fur, golden and brown, Goes out so sweet a scent, one night I might have been embalmed in it By giving him one little pet. He is my household's guardian soul; He judges, he presides, inspires All matters in his royal realm; Might he be fairy? or a god? When my eyes, to this cat I love Drawn as by a magnet's force, Turn tamely back upon that appeal, And when I look within myself, I notice with astonishment The fire of his opal eyes, Clear beacons glowing, living jewels, Taking my measure, steadily.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Sweet, Eye, Cat

  Charles Baudelaire, James N McGowan (2008). “The Flowers of Evil”, p.105, Oxford Paperbacks

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• I am delighted to be joining 'Guardian U.S.''s team as a weekly columnist, and to have the chance to address American and global current events on its distinguished platform. 'Guardian U.S.' brings the 'Guardian''s hard-hitting investigative brand to a new focus on American news and opinion.

  Naomi Wolf

  Team, Focus, Events

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• He watched as I slipped one of the shoes on. "You have a guardian angel." "I don't believe in angels," I told him. "I believe in what I can do for myself." Well then, you have an amazing body." I glanced up at him with a questioning look. "For healing, I mean. I heard about the accident.

  Richelle Mead

  Believe, Healing, Mean

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.137, Penguin

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• I guess I have never really doubted that we are all born to our guardian angel.

  Robert Breault

  Angel, Born, Doubted

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• Poetry has been the guardian angel of humanity in all ages.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Angel, Poetry, Humanity

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• Because subjects like literature and art history have no obvious material pay-off, they tend to attract those who look askance at capitalist notions of utility. The idea of doing something purely for the delight of it has always rattled the grey-bearded guardians of the state. Sheer pointlessness has always been a deeply subversive affair.

  Terry Eagleton

  Art, Ideas, Looks

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• The sport [football] is simply more and more identified with violence, both in its inherent nature and in its savage personnel... [The National Football League] now needs a guardian, not a CEO.

  Frank Deford

  Sports, Football, League

  "Football Needs A Guardian, Not A CEO". "Morning Edition", www.npr.org. July 09, 2013.

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• I'm referred to, I see, as 'the biggest banker in modern publishing'. Now there's a line that needed the celebrated Guardian proof-reading.

  Terry Pratchett

  Reading, Bankers, Lines

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• The artist has to be a guardian of the culture.

  Robert Longo

  Artist, Culture

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• Justice and equity are twin Guardians that watch over men. From them are revealed such blessed and perspicuous words as are the cause of the well-being of the world and the protection of the nations.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Blessed, Men, Justice

  "Epistle to the Son of the Wolf". Book by Bahá'u'lláh, 1891.

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• Whatever his private beliefs and religious practice, a president must be the guardian of the laws which ensure America's religious diversity.

  Walter F. Mondale

  Religious, Law, Practice

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• You seem to forget that I'm Evie's legal guardian." "And you seem to forget that there's absolutely nothing legal about your guardianship, considering all the documents were forged.

  Kiersten White

  Forget, Considering, Forged

  Kiersten White (2011). “Supernaturally”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• Let us enquire. Who, then, shall challenge the words? Why are they challenged. And by whom? By those who call themselves the guardians of morality, and who are the constituted guardians of religion. Enquiry, it seems, suits not them. They have drawn the line, beyond which human reason shall not pass -- above which human virtue shall not aspire! All that is without their faith or above their rule, is immorality, is atheism, is -- I know not what.

  Frances Wright

  Challenges, Atheism, Suits

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• We come humbly to say to the men in the forefront of our government that the civil rights issue is not an Ephemeral, evanescent domestic issue that can be kicked about by reactionary guardians of the status quo; it is rather an eternal moral issue which may well determine the destiny of our nation in the ideological struggle with communism. The hour is late. The clock of destiny is ticking out. We must act now, before it is too late.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Struggle, Destiny, Men

  "The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Volume IV: Symbol of the Movement, January 1957-December 1958". Book by Martin Luther King, Clayborne Carson, Peter Holloran, Ralph Luker, Penny A. Russell (University of California Press), p. 211, 1992.

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• The great guardian principle of all conduct in the church of God is personal responsibility to the Lord.

  John Nelson Darby

  Christian, Responsibility, Church

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• Education is 'the guardian genius of our democracy.' Nothing really means more to our future, not our military defenses, not our missiles or our bombers, not our production economy, not even our democratic system of government. For all of these are worthless if we lack the brain power to support and sustain them.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, Military, Mean

  Remarks on the Message on Education, January 12, 1965.

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