Keepers Quotes - Page 8

I knew, as every peasant does, that land can never be truly owned. We are the keepers of the soil, the curators of trees.

Lisa St. Aubin de Terán

Land, Tree, Doe

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A library is a temple unabridged with priceless treasure. Librarians are the majesties who loan the jewels of measure. They welcome to the kingdom the young and old of reapers and reign among the riches as the wondrous fortune keepers.

Pam Muñoz Ryan

Book, Jewels, Library

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Modern physics is describing what the ancient wisdom keepers of the Americas have long known. These shamans, known as 'the Earthkeepers,' say that we’re dreaming the world into being through the very act of witnessing it. Scientists believe that we’re only able to do this in the very small subatomic world. Shamans understand that we also dream the larger world that we experience with our senses.

Alberto Villoldo

Dream, Believe, Long

Alberto Villoldo (2010). “Courageous Dreaming: How Shamans Dream the World Into Being”, p.6, ReadHowYouWant.com

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In the Old Testament…God is the owner of the vineyard. Here He is the Keeper, the Farmer, the One who takes care of the vineyard. Jesus is the genuine Vine, and the Father takes care of Him…In the Old Testament it is prophesied that the Lord Jesus would grow up before Him as a tender plant and as a root out of the dry ground. Think how often the Father intervened to save Jesus from the devil who wished to slay Him. The Father is the One who cared for the Vine, and He will care for the branches, too.

J. Vernon McGee

Jesus, Growing Up, Father

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Reading is the gateway to so many things that helps makes it possible for seven billion people to live together on one planet. Literature is the great extra-somatic keeper of our knowledge of what it is to be human. Reading elevates us. We read to be our best selves.

Nicola Griffith

Reading, Self, People

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Ah, children, pity level-crossing keepers, pity lock-keepers - pity lighthouse-keepers - pity all the keepers of this world (pity even school teachers), caught between their conscience and the bleak horizon.

Graham Swift

Teacher, Children, School

Graham Swift (1991). “Waterland”, Simon & Schuster

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For me, a writer should be more like a lighthouse keeper, just out there by himself. He shouldn't get his ideas from other people all around him.

Robert M. Pirsig

Ideas, People, Lighthouse

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It is that fundamental belief, it is that fundamental belief, I am my brother’s keeper, I am my sister’s keeper that makes this country work. It’s what allows us to pursue our individual dreams and yet still come together as one American family. E pluribus unum. Out of many, one.

Barack Obama

Dream, Country, Brother

2004 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 27 July 2004, Fleet Center, Boston

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I think many of my books, including "Handle with Care," including "My Sister's Keeper" circle back to how far are we willing to go for the people we love? I think love changes the way we think. It's the thing that takes you out of what your normal set of beliefs would be.

Jodi Picoult

Book, Thinking, Circles

"Religion & Ethics Newsweekly" with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. April 24, 2009.

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After Memory Keepers Daughter, it took me a few months to shut out the world. I really had to turn off the Internet and sort of cloister myself away from the world again and sink into that psychic space to write again.

Kim Edwards

Daughter, Memories, Writing

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Probably they had good reason for omitting it. A profane mind might make a jest of an apostle half seas over, and ridicule an apostolic gate-keeper who couldn't keep his head above water.

Charles Bradlaugh

Sea, Water, Mind

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Such figures as Boy George do not disturb me nearly so much as do those relentlessly hetero (sexual?) keepers of the keys and seals, those who know what the world needs in the way of order and who are ready and willing to supply that order.

James A. Baldwin

Boys, Keys, Order

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America's not just [about] looking out for yourself, it's not just about greed, it's not just about trying to climb to the very top and keep everybody else down. ... Hard work, that's a value. Looking out for one another, that's a value. The idea that we're all in it together and [that] I'm my brother's keeper and [my] sister's keeper, that's a value.

Barack Obama

Brother, Hard Work, America

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The future is the keeper
of the memories of the past

Mario

Memories, Past, Past Memories

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She began framing the words of her telegram into a senseless singsong; so that several park keepers looked at her with suspicion and were only brought to a favourable opinion of her sanity by noticing the pearl necklace which she wore.

Virginia Woolf

Singing, Necklaces, Pearls

"Orlando (Annotated): A Biography".

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We carry on. We have ourselves and we carry on- in spite of our losses and mistakes and women, I think, have more than most. We are good secret-keepers. We can tie weights to out guilt and passions, and hatred and deceitfulness, and let them sink down, so that you'd never know they existed at all. But we know. I can count all mine.

Susan Fletcher

Mistake, Passion, Loss

Susan Fletcher (2007). “Oystercatchers”, HarperCollins UK

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Although I have felt compelled to write things down since I was five years old, I doubt that my daughter ever will, for she is a singularly blessed and accepting child, delighted with life exactly as life presents itself to her, unafraid to go to sleep and unafraid to wake up. Keepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely and resistant rearrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth with some presentiment of loss.

Joan Didion

Notebook, Daughter, Lonely

Joan Didion (2013). “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”, p.98, Zola Books

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And above all, you must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best by its paint and panelling…the question should never be: ‘Do I like that kind of service?’ but ‘Are these doctrines true: Is holiness there? Does my conscience move me towards this? Is my reluctance to move to this door due to my pride, or my mere taste, or my personal dislike for this particular door-keeper?

C. S. Lewis

Moving, Pride, Doors

C. S. Lewis (2009). “Mere Christianity”, p.16, Harper Collins

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What you burnt, broke, and tore is still in my hands. I am the keeper of fragile things and I have kept of you what is indissoluble.

Anais Nin

Hands, Broke, Fragile Things

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He likes you, too." Finn repeated. "And don't tell me to shut up." "Shut up!" -Kingdom Keepers, Shell Game

Ridley Pearson

Games, Shells, Kingdoms

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Jordan couldn’t keep the smile off her face. “Yeah, I like this guy. He rescued me from a crazed man with a gun, he makes me laugh, and he calls his mother Ma. I’d say he’s a keeper.

Julie James

Mother, Men, Gun

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Advice to Young Journal Keepers. Be lenient with yourself. Conceal your worst faults, leave out your most shameful thoughts, actions, and temptations. Give yourself all the good and interesting qualities you want and haven't got. If you should die young, what comfort would it be to your relatives to read the truth and have to say: It is not a pearl we have lost, but a swine?

Rosamond Lehmann

Giving, Interesting, Advice

Rosamond Lehmann (2012). “Invitation To The Waltz”, p.55, Hachette UK

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A republican form of government, without intelligence in the people, must be, on a vast scale, what a mad-house, without superintendent or keepers, would be on a small one.

Horace Mann

Government, People, Mad

Horace Mann (1868). “Annual reports on education (ed. by mrs. M. Mann).”, p.687

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Don't visualize beating the keeper, visualize destroying the keeper.

Steven Gerrard

Motivational, Soccer, Creative Visualization

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We cannot abdicate our conscience to an organization, nor to a government. 'Am I my brother's keeper?' Most certainly I am! I cannot escape my responsibility by saying the State will do all that is necessary. It is a tragedy that nowadays so many think and feel otherwise.

Albert Schweitzer

Brother, Responsibility, Thinking

Albert Schweitzer, Charles Rhind Joy (1947). “Albert Schweitzer: An Anthology”, Boston : Beacon Press

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