quotes about Custodians
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Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources - and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on in the future.
-- Alberto Moravia -
Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.
-- August Wilson -
But ask yourself this Eragon: If gods exist, have they been good custodians of alagaesia? Death, sickness, poverty, tyranny and countless other miseries stalk the land. If this is the handiwork of divine beings, then they are to be rebelled against and overthrown, not given obeisance, obedience, and reverance.
-- Christopher Paolini -
Universities are the custodians not only of the many cultures of man, but of the rational process itself.
-- Edward H. LeviSource : Edward H. Levi (2008). “Point of View: Talks on Education”, p.182, University of Chicago Press
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I've never thought of my jewelry as trophies. I'm here to take care of it and to love it, for we are only temporary custodians of beauty.
-- Elizabeth Taylor -
I have been supremely lucky in my life in that I have known great love, and of course I am the temporary custodian of some incredible and beautiful things.
-- Elizabeth Taylor -
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 -
Museums are custodians of epiphanies, and these epiphanies enter the central nervous system and deep recesses of the mind.
-- George Lois -
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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 -
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 -
Parliament is more than procedure - it is the custodian of the nation's freedom.
-- John DiefenbakerSource : John George Diefenbaker (1982). “The Wit & Wisdom of John Diefenbaker”, Hurtig Trade
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America is a friend of freedom everywhere, but a custodian only of our own.
-- John Quincy Adams -
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America must remain, at any cost, the custodian of freedom, human dignity and economic security. The United States must be strong, so that no nation may dare attack.
-- Louis B. Mayer -
God has given a new revelation of himself in modern times and we are the custodians of the message.
-- Mark E. Petersen -
The constitution is the ultimate custodian of social will and its making should be accorded all due diligence.
-- Mwai KibakiSource : Mwai Kibaki (2003). “Building a working nation: speeches by H.E. President Mwai Kibaki : December 2002 - July 2003”
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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 -