"You have given me a great responsibility: to……" — Jimmy Carter

You have given me a great responsibility: to stay close to you,… - Jimmy Carter

"You have given me a great responsibility: to stay close to you, to be worthy of you and to exemplify what you are."

— Jimmy Carter

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299 Quotes by Jimmy Carter

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Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things - he never said that…
You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you…
We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.
War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good.…
We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.
We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our…
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.
If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming.
I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.
A fundamentalist can't bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself…

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It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much… — Neil Armstrong
I have always drawn strength from being close to home. — Arthur Ashe
From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any… — Isaac Asimov
Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone… — David Attenborough
Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and… — Margaret Atwood
Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens,… — Diane Ackerman
What friends or kindred can be so close and intimate as the powers of our soul, which, whether we will… — Teresa of Avila
A man's illness is his private territory and, no matter how much he loves you and how close you are,… — Lauren Bacall
I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way… — Richard Bach
Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you… — Francis Bacon
Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture… — Anita Baker
I'm not an actor that tends to care. I don't ask 'Is this a close up? Is this a master?… — Christian Bale

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