#guardians

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 ahead to our children and their children. And we do so with a sense of sacredness in that reaching. ↗

— Paul Tsongas

#ancestors #back #children #continuum #fundamental

Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

#guardians #i #i wonder #in fact #life

The bronze powder business, however, no longer required my personal attention, and was well managed by those I had chosen as the guardians of a secret, which was long and honourably kept. ↗

— Henry Bessemer

#bronze #business #chosen #guardians #had

In no instance have... the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people. ↗

— James Madison

#churches #guardians #instance #liberties #people

Guardians are necessary for children and abnormal adults, because they cannot make responsible choices for themselves. ↗

— Tom G. Palmer

#because #cannot #children #choices #guardians

The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth. ↗

— Agnes Repplier

#mirth #rights #should #thinkers #world

We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#did #else #gate #guardians

To understand pretending is to conquer all barriers of time and space. ↗

— William Joyce

#nicholas-st-north #north #ombric #pretending #rise-of-the-guardians

The possibilities were endless. Battles would be fought. Wonders revealed. Many journeys. Many lands. Many joys. Many sorrows. But stories all... ↗

— William Joyce

#imagination #journeys #joy #lands #nicholas-st-north

to understand pretending," Ombric was fond of saying, "is to conquer all barriers of time and space. ↗

— William Joyce

#imagination #imagination