Community Quote by Mary Gordon

The advent of the Christian God, as the maximum god attained so far, was therefore accompanied by the maximum feeling of guilty indebtedness on…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

My favorite thing to do is put my headphones on and cruise around the old neighborhoods.

— Mark Duplass

“That's how long it had been since thirty-five year-old Frank DeLuca had been home. It was strange how little had changed in the old…

— Lucinda DuBois

“No, nothing much had changed in the old neighborhood. She was still just an actress in someone else’s play.”

— Genevieve Dewey

Don't hang out in your old neighborhood with your new cars and flash it to guys who don't have that. The only thing you're…

— Ja Rule

In my old neighborhood, a boy stopped playing when he began to lose his pulse. And then he became the referee.

— Bill Cosby

“Here I am, proud as Greek god, and yet standing debtor to this blockhead for a bone to stand on! Cursed be that mortal…

— Herman Melville

A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude.

— Ruth Benedict

“Parenting is the greatest pay it forward system on earth. We don't owe our parents anything. We owe our children everything. The same was…

— Dan Pearce

I felt a great sense of indebtedness and responsibility to use the help that other people had given me to in turn help others…

— Brooke Ellison

Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

People ask how I can be a conservative and still want higher taxes. It makes my head spin, and I guess it shows how…

— Ben Stein

Let us candidly confess our indebtedness to the needle. How many hours of sorrow has it softened, how many bitter irritations calmed, how many…

— Caroline Wells Healey Dall

We could curtail private spending by several trillion dollars a year without requiring painful sacrifices from anyone. That would be more than enough to…

— Robert H. Frank

I am determined to elect a president of our choosing this year and one who will be deeply indebted, and who will recognize his…

— Howard Hughes