Guardianship Quotes

• A little reflection will enable any person to detect in himself that setness in trifles which is the result of the unwatched instinct of self-will and to establish over himself a jealous guardianship.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Jealous, Reflection, Self

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1866). “Little Foxes, Or, The Little Failings which Mar Domestic Happiness”, p.77

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• The administration of government, like a guardianship ought to be directed to the good of those who confer, not of those who receive the trust.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Government, Administration, Ought

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, Cyrus R. Edmonds (1863). “Three Books of Offices; Or, Moral Duties: Also His Cato Major, an Essay on Old Age; Laelius, an Essay on Friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the Duties of a Magistrate. Literally Translated, with Notes, Designed to Exhibit a Comparative View of the Opinions of Cicero, and Those of Modern Moralists and Ethical Philosophers”, p.44

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• Children with heaven in their eyes and an air of mystery about them, meditative and quiet, friends of God, friends of all, loved and loving and asking very little from the outer world, because they have more than enough within. They are classed as the dreamers, but they are really seers. They do not ask much and they do not need much beyond a reverent guardianship and to be let alone and allowed to grow; they will find this way for they are 'taught of God.

  Janet Erskine Stuart

  Children, Eye, Air

  Janet Erskine Stuart (2012). “The Education of Catholic Girls”, p.49, tredition

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• Reverence, enthusiasm, and a sense of guardianship, these three are actually the panacea, the magical remedy, in the soul of the educator and teacher.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Teacher, Soul, Three

  Rudolf Steiner (2007). “Balance in Teaching”, p.47, SteinerBooks

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• Veganism isn’t just a strict vegetarian diet; it is a complete philosophical viewpoint. It is practical in outlook, simple to understand and aspires to the highest environmental and spiritual values. I am sure it holds the key to a future lifestyle for a humane planetary guardianship.

  Howard Lyman

  Spiritual, Philosophical, Simple

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• My sister was like my surrogate mother here, in Washington, with very much of the same persuasions as my mother. Even when friends came from home that I knew were more socially adaptable to the mores of the time, she would always caution me and say, "Be careful if you're going out with so and so because you know such and such a thing could happen." It was that kind of guardianship, and concern that imprinted me.

  David C. Driskell

  Mother, Home, Going Out

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• Satisfied if they themselves can escape from the hard labour of thought, they willingly abandon to others the guardianship of their thoughts.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Abandon, Satisfied, Hard

  Friedrich Schiller (2013). “On The Aesthetic Education Of Man”, p.52, Lulu.com

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• Just been talking today out here to all the Senators investigating these stock swindles and overcapitalizations. There has been hundreds of millions lost. There ought to be some form of guardianship for people that buy all this junk. Education won't do it. The buyers are the ones we have educated up till they are just smart enough to fall for everything that comes along.

  Will Rogers

  Business, Smart, Fall

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• To the Memory of those faithful brown slave-men of the plantations throughout the South, Daddy's contemporaries all, who during the war while their masters were away fighting in a cause opposed to their emancipation, brought their blankets and slept outside their mistresses' doors, thus keeping night-watch over otherwise unprotected women and children -- a faithful guardianship of which the annals of those troublous times record no instance of betrayal.

  Ruth Stout

  Children, Memories, Betrayal

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• As a brother, a landlord, a master, she considered how many people's happiness were in his guardianship! -- How much of pleasure or pain it was in his power to bestow! -- How much of good or evil must be done by him!

  Jane Austen

  Brother, Pain, People

  Jane Austen (1813). “Pride and Prejudice: A Novel. : In Three Volumes”, p.14

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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, Guardian, Considering

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

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