I have too much work on my hands and I would not be a…

A dutiful mother is someone who follows every step her child makes...And a good mother is someone whose child wants to follow her.

— Jodi Picoult

“I know. I know. Me? Dutiful daughter? All-round good girl? Owner of an up-and-coming event-planning company? Killer of plants and unwed at thirty? Pulling…

— Sara Desai

It becomes us, therefore, to be contented, and dutiful subjects.

— Jonathan Mayhew

“Responsibility and duty are different things, you can sacrifice your responsibility for your duty but you cannot sacrifice your duty for your responsibility.”

— Amit Kalantri

In point of fact I was a perfectly devoted and dutiful little Catholic—until the day I learned that animals have no souls.

— Susan Kay

Being faithful and dutiful is a precious quality of human beings but it creates disasters if the master is a devil.

— Senoraroy

To have a dutiful family, the father's principle of rule must be love, not fear. His sway must be gentle, or he will have…

— William Cobbett

All my life, even as an actor, I felt like I was really trying to be dutiful, which sometimes got in my way of…

— Fala Chen

We would often rather seem dutiful to others than to succeed in our duties; and often we would rather tell our friends that we…

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

“Ordinary men earns responsibility towards their family, extraordinary men earns duty towards their nation.”

— Amit Kalantri

whatever devotion to something else there was in him had been made impure by church taken as a weekly, dutiful thing.

— Kay Boyle

When I have loving parents, it is not difficult to be dutiful to them. But if I can be dutiful to parents who hate…

— Alex Low

The land belongs to those who work it with their hands.

— Emiliano Zapata

I have always regarded manual labour as creative and looked with respect-and, yes, wonder-at people who work with their hands. It seems to me…

— Pablo Casals

“for they are all the work of his hands?”

— Zondervan