Best Guardian Thoughts
414 Guardian quotes by 239 unique authors
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Secrecy of design, when combined with rapidity of execution, like me column that guided Israel in the deserts, becomes the guardian pillar of light and…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Aerial spirits, by great Jove design'd To be on earth the guardians of mankind: Invisible to mortal eyes they go, And mark our actions, good…
— Hesiod
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Ah, yet, e'er I descend to th' grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have. And a few Friends, and many Books…
— Abraham Cowley
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The belief in potential human virtue underlies the whole idea of the Bill of Rights; the document is a very tough guardian of that belief.
— Roger Rosenblatt
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To the sick man the physician when he enters seems to have three faces, those of a man, a devil, a god. When the physician…
— John Owen
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The artist has to be a guardian of the culture.
— Robert Longo
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The world of pure spirits stretches between the divine nature and the world of human beings; because divine wisdom has ordained that the higher should…
— Thomas Aquinas
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In 1838, Mirabeau B. Lamar, the Second President of the Republic of Texas and the Father of Texas education, declared: 'The cultivated mind is the…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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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,…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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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
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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…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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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,…
— Frances Wright
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Do you not think that sometimes when matters are at the worst with us, when we appear to have done all which we ourselves can…
— James Anthony Froude
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Fortune has been considered the guardian divinity of fools; and, on this score, she has been accused of blindness; but it should rather be adduced…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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If I am to truly become an autonomous woman, then I must take over that role of being my own guardian.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.
— Vaclav Havel
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Kind 'Guardian' readers have been forwarding me round robin Christmas newsletters for years now: lengthy missives full of perfect children, exotic holidays, talented pets and…
— Simon Hoggart
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We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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In no instance have... the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
— James Madison
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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
— James Madison
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I never wanted a Guardian Angel. I didn't ask for one. One was assigned to me.
— Mercedes McCambridge
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I feel that each and every one of us as individuals has a responsibility to one another. None of us would be here without the…
— Alonzo Mourning
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All my books are accidental books - they come from reacting to things and thinking about things and engaging in a real way. They are…
— Arundhati Roy
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I think that someone is watching out for me, God, my guardian angel, I'm not sure who that is, but they really work hard.
— Mattie Stepanek
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We are a continuum. Just as we reach back to our ancestors for our fundamental values, so we, as guardians of that legacy, must reach…
— Paul Tsongas
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