Guardian Quotes

The worst of guardians is a cruel ruler. Beware of becoming one of them.

How oft, – be witness, Guardian of our days!… The sky besprinkled o’er with rainbow hues, As if angelic wings had wanton’d there.

I like to believe that I’ve got a lot of guardian warriors sittin’ on my shoulder including my dad.

There is a growing threat to the environment, to the vegetation, animals, water and air. Sacred Scripture hands us the image of Cain who rejects his responsibility: ‘Am I my brother’s keeper?’ The Bible shows the human person as his brother’s keeper and the guardian of creation which has been entrusted to him.

Therefore for Spirits, I am so far from denying their existence that I could easily believe, that not only whole Countries, but particular persons, have their Tutelary and Guardian Angels.

What is it?” she asked. “I’m looking for your wings. You are my guardian angel, aren’t you?” “I’m afraid not,” she replied, her cheeks dimplingwith a wry smile. “There’s too much of the devil in me for that.” “Just how much devil,” I grinned, “are we talking about here?

I think we all do have a guardian angel. I believe they work through us all the time, when we are thoughtful and good and kind to each other.

The judiciary must not take on the coloration of whatever may be popular at the moment. We are guardian of rights, and we have to tell people things they often do not like to hear.

What concerns me is that the Independent is going, and there are job cuts at the Guardian, but the wretched Daily Mail is still rampant, making lots of money by millions of people clicking on pictures of cellulited women. I think that’s sad.

I’ve buried six Guardian Angels who have been shot and killed in the line of duty. I was stalked myself, had a gunman go pow, pow, pow, pow, pow, pow, five hollow point bullets, God save me. What do you think this is? This isn’t Zimmerman. But unfortunately, he’s become the face of Block Watch, Crime Watch.

Dear God, May all the tears I cry, and all the tears I have not cried but hold within, pour forth into Your hands. Please take each painful thought and unhealed wound, and send angels here to me. I long for peace. Amen.

People around me die. They drop like flies. I’ve gone through life leaving a trail of dead bodies behind me. My mother is dead, my guardian is dead, my aunt is dead—because I killed her, and when my real father finds me, he’ll move heaven and earth to make me dead.

We must never forget why we have, and why we need our military. Our armed forces exist solely to ensure our nation is safe, so that each and every one of us can sleep soundly at night, knowing we have ‘guardians at the gate.’

Because he’s the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So we’ll hunt him. Because he can take it. Because he’s not our hero. He’s a silent guardian, a watchful protector. A dark knight.

A guardian angel o’er his life presiding, Doubling his pleasures, and his cares dividing.

The cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy. It is the only dictator that free man acknowledges. It is the only security that free man desires.

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

When you are lonely or frightened, talk to your guardian angel. You can do it out loud or inside your head, your angel can hear you. Ask your angel to be near you, to put his or her hand on your shoulder, to give you courage and protect you.

If anything happened to you, I’d be so destroyed they’d have to strap me to a bed and feed me through a tube. After five or six years, I might be capable of taking care of Rex. In the interim, you should assign a guardian.

One function of the angels is illumination, and the other function is that of being a guardian.

Angels and demons were identical–interchangeable archetypes–all a matter of polarity. The guardian angel who conquered your enemy in battle was perceived by your enemy as a demon destroyer.

One of the annoyances of working for The Guardian is that, obsessed as the organisation is with its digital and social media presence and its own sense of singular importance, editors would militantly try to edit your tweets.

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 both true, Both wise, and both delightful too. And since Love ne’er will from me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as Guardian angels are, Only belov’d and loving me.

To me, Garth, he’s kind of like my guardian angel. It’s like every time I need some help, he’s there.

I don’t know much about death and the sorriest lesson I’ve learned is that words, my most trusted guardians against chaos, offer small comfort in the face of anyone’s dying.

Ever since I was 15, when I did my first movie by myself, where my mom wasn’t there and I had a guardian, I got to know the crew, and I got to be part of a group and a family. I love that part of it, the friendships that you make.

Mob rule and emasculation of the wise’ and ‘who will watch the guardians’?

One is struck in the study of saints, angels and gods by a pattern that seems quaint and harmless. Yet, it is so common that I know there must be a deeper meaning. There always seem to be guardians and spirits of doors, bridges, exits and entranceways.

If only we could see the joy of our guardian angel when he sees us fighting our temptations!

My parents were Northern Ireland Labour party people. We read the ‘Guardian’ and the ‘New Statesman,’ listened to the BBC. The house was full of books. We didn’t get a television until ‘That Was The Week That Was’ started. There was nothing to do but read.

The great guardian principle of all conduct in the church of God is personal responsibility to the Lord.

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.

The framers of the Constitution realized that . . . there needed to be some guardian of the sober second thought, and so they created the Senate to fulfill that high and vitally important duty.

The Guardian,[is] one of the most consistently anti-Catholic newspapers in the world.

Some part of me hopes for a guardian angel to protect me and other people who need protection.

They are not following dharma who resort to violence to achieve their purpose. But those who lead others through nonviolent means, knowing right and wrong, may be called guardians of the dharma. Those who really seek the path to Enlightenment dictate terms to their mind. Then they proceed with strong determination.

Men are monopolists of “stars, garters, buttons and other shining baubles”- unfit to be the guardians of another person’s happiness.

Women are the guardians of morality.

Our union is now complete; our constitution composed, established, and approved. You are now the guardians of your own liberties.

love is undying,of that I feel certain.I mean deep,abiding,cherishing love.The love that gives protection even as you,my guardian angel,gave me protection long after you had gone-and continue to give this very day… A love beyond Death-a love that makes Life alive!

We cannot pass our guardian angel’s bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.

The girl who reveals herself heart and soul to her friend reveals the secrets of the entire sex; for every girl is the guardian of the feminine mysteries.

If the guardian or the mother
Tell the woes of willful waste,
Scorn their counsel and their pother,
You can hang or drown at last.

Liberty is the condition of duty, the guardian of conscience. It grows as conscience grows. The domains of both grow together. Liberty is safety from all hindrances, even sin. So that Liberty ends by being Free Will.

Be ever more convinced that your guardian angel is really present, that he is ever at your side. St. Frances of Rome always saw him standing before her, his arms clasped at his breast, his eyes uplifted to Heaven; but at the slightest failing, he would cover his face as if in shame, and at times, turn his back to her.

Nothing could convince Aunt Nelly to let Vlad stay home for the duration of the school year, which just goes to prove that parents and guardians don’t care if they’re sending you to face bloodthirsty monsters, so long as you get a B in English.

Let us be guardians, not gardeners

Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells. Those who think and those who create with words are the guardians of this home.

I have a thing about angels. I believe in them. I feel like I have a guardian angel. I think everybody has one.

Only in time of fear is government thrown back to its primitive and sole function of self-defense and the many interests of which it is the guardian become subordinate to that.

You seem to forget that I’m Evie’s legal guardian.” “And you seem to forget that there’s absolutely nothing legal about your guardianship, considering all the documents were forged.

Woe to the man who tries to stretch the imagination of man He shall be mocked he shall be scourged by the blinkered guardians of morality.

People really seemed to think of me as a guardian angel. People would bring their children before me for a blessing or something.

I am the guardian of power, not its owner.

All my books are accidental books – they come from reacting to things and thinking about things and engaging in a real way. They are not about, ‘Oh, did it get a good review in the Guardian?’ I don’t care.

Rusbridger’s curious success, especially for a temperamentally remote figure, has been to give a reasonable face to the Guardian’s quite quixotic mission.

Teachers are more than any other group the guardians of civilization.

Denis Healey refused to contribute an article to the ‘Guardian’ about his intentions, and was punished by the electorate – and then all Labour MPs – for his presumption in assuming they already knew everything about him. He became famously the best prime minister we never had. Perhaps.

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 guardian genius of democracy. It is the only dictator that free man acknowledges. It is the only security that free man desires.’

I’ve now got a 35,000-word document of quotes from people who hate me, a lot from the ‘Guardian’ comment threads. Mostly, I’ve managed to get myself into the mindset where the criticism is quite affirming.

While we are guarding the country, we must accept being the guardian of the finest ethics. The country needs it and we must do it.

The God we worship is no respecter of persons, but He is a respecter of men’s rights, and a guardian of them-a fact clearly shown in the heaven-inspired Constitution of our country, and in the Gospel itself, which might be termed the Constitution of Eternity.

When the ‘Guardian’ is commissioning writers to write obituary pieces about you and your career… it doesn’t get much nastier than that. And you’ve just got to go, ‘It doesn’t actually matter.’

Gay men are guardians of the masculine impulse. To have anonymous sex in a dark alleyway is to pay homage to the dream of male freedom. The unknown stranger is a wandering pagan god. The altar, as in pre-history, is anywhere you kneel.

My work will be finished if I succeed in carrying conviction to the human family that every man or woman, however weak in body, is the guardian of his or her self-respect and liberty.

A man does not always choose what his guardian angel intends.

I have written periodically for the Guardian for more than a decade.

If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you. Besides, those voices are merely guardians and demons protecting the real treasure, the first thoughts of the mind.

What makes me angry’is that it wasn’t me who revealed that I had been with Osama Bin Laden. I originally denied being involved with Osama when the London Guardian threatened to ‘out’ me.

I feel like every single person has guardian angels.

Being editor-in-chief of the ‘Guardian’ and ‘Observer’ is an enormous privilege and responsibility, leading a first-class team of journalists revered around the world for outstanding reporting, independent thinking, incisive analysis, and digital innovation.

I am delighted to be named Troll Of The Year 2013 by ‘The Guardian’ – a paper read by people called Theo and women called Polly with body issues.

Follow your dreams, transform your life, take the path that leads to God. Perform your miracles. Cure. Make prophecies. Listen to your guardian angel. Transform yourself. Be a warrior, and be happy as you wage the good fight. Take risks.

Angels have a sense of humor…The angels wants us to enjoy life. Have a good laugh at yourself every now and again for taking life seriously. Then take time to laugh with the angels!

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.

God, why do I give interviews to ‘the Guardian’? They always try to dissect you, and I don’t really think about stuff in the way that you’re asking me these questions.

I shall support the law, for the law gentlemen, is the firm and solid basis of civil society, the guardian of liberty, the protection of the innocent, the terror of the guilty, and the scourge of the wicked.

Dreams are the guardians of sleep and not its disturbers.

I don’t regard that as a Guardian Angle. I really do think, in a sense, that we are our own Guardian Angles. But we don’t listen to ourselves.

Robots are great. I am saying that now so that when a future civilization of robots takes us captive, they will search through the ‘Guardian’ web archive and realise I said, ‘Robots are great,’ and then they’ll choose to save me.

One of the turning points in the look of the Guardian is when we decided Logan Thackeray would be a Guardian as opposed to a Warrior. Logan’s own protective nature and the fact that the humans have been knocked back into defensive positions informed a lot of what the Guardian became.

Our Guardian Angels are our most faithful friends, because they are with us day and night, always and everywhere. We ought often to invoke them.

Arsene Wenger’s mentality has been to bring together footballers who bring happiness in our sport, the type of players I like to watch. I’ve followed him since he was in Japan, and he always was a guardian of the art of football – football with happiness and football played well.

When you are a child of the mountains yourself, you really belong to them. You need them. They become the faithful guardians of your life. If you cannot dwell on their lofty heights all your life, if you are in trouble, you want at least to look at them.

We don’t need police officers who see themselves as warriors. We need police officers who see themselves as guardians and parts of the community. You can’t police a community that you’re not a part of.

Did you follow me from the party?” “Yes” “I didn’t even know you were there.” His dark clothes indicated he must have been on guardian duty at the party. “So you saw the illustrious Janine cause a commotion by dragging me out.” “It wasn’t a commotion. Hardly anyone noticed. I saw because I was watching you.

Honor, I thought. For real: the guardians should have taught it. Because I hadn’t learned it.

I swear I will not dishonor my soul with hatred, but offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature, as a healer of misery, as a messenger of wonder, as an architect of peace.

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 look after the lower, angels execute the divine plan for human salvation: they are our guardians, who free us when hindered and help to bring us home.

In this climate – with belief in guardian angels and creationism becoming commonplace – making fun of religion is as risky as burning a flag in an American Legion hall.

Everyone in Iran is perceived to be a child with a paternal authority vested in the Guardian Council and the Sufi elders. They’re supposed to be grateful. They can never for a moment not be afforded this wonderful protection. The father who will never go away. The father who will never quit caring for them.

I like to be loved by my children, and I quite like the ‘Guardian’ hating me. I like it when I read they want me to die painfully. Then I think I’ve really got under their skin. It’s like annoying a teacher. Once they’ve shown signs of weakness, you really can go for them.

The problem of human suffering is never too much rational thinking, or too high a demand for evidence. But the solutions are. … Reason is nothing less than the guardian of love.

Yog-Sothoth knows the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the key and guardian of the gate. Past, present, future, all are one in Yog-Sothoth.

As actors you have this trait to imitate very easily. I don’t want to imitate anything or limit myself of finding this creature, this woman because I’m looking at magazines and I’m reading comics, and I’m asking people that are avid readers of The Guardians.

Some believe strongly that each Christian may have his own guardian angel assigned to watch over him or her.

The most important relationship the ‘Guardian’ has is with its readers.

The result desired by the state is a wholly different one from that desired by parents, guardians, and pupils.

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.

The original Zal story by Ferdowsi gives a very moving account of an infant who had all odds against him – he was left to die in the wilderness and a giant, benevolent bird rescued him and became his guardian angel. This tale thrilled me; I’ve always wanted to write about it.

What’s going on?” he asked, looking from face to face. “I was having a good dream.” “I need you,” said Lissa. “I hear that from women a lot,” said Adrian. Christian made a gagging sound, but the faintest glimmer of a smile crossed Eddie’s lips, despite his otherwise tough guardian-stance.

At the ‘Guardian,’ we have a special relationship with our readers. This relationship is not just about the news; it’s about a shared sense of purpose and a commitment to understand and illuminate our times.

I have never heard the word brand used so often as I did around The Guardian. Brand was the magical word, particularly as it was uttered by Alan Rusbridger, that would transform the paper and the goal that everyone was working toward.

Today, as chief Of the guardians of the seas Of the land of the dawn, I gaze up with awe At the rising sun!

a good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude

Although you appear in earthly form Your essence is pure Consciousness. You are the fearless guardian of Divine Light.

But of all the views of this law [universal education] none is more important, none more legitimate, than that of rendering the people the safe, as they are the ultimate, guardians of their own liberty.

I love ‘The Guardian’ series. Bianca St. Ives is one of my favorite heroines ever, and the combination of action, suspense, and romance makes her story pure fun to write.

He’s waiting for yu, young queen.’ Shocked, I stared at Seoras. ‘Heath?’ The Warrior’s look was wise and understanding – his voice gentle. ‘Aye, yur Heath probably does await you somewhere in the future, but it is of your Guardian I speak.

Librarians see themselves as the guardians of the First Amendment. You got a thousand Mother Joneses at the barricades! I love the librarians, and I am grateful for them!

The child’s parents are not his makers but his guardians.

Angels are ‘beings of light’ and therefore travel at the speed of light.

The university is the archive of the Western mind, it’s the keeper of the Western culture, … the guardian of our heritage, the teacher of our teachers, … the dwelling place of the free mind.

I like to be loved by my children, and I quite like the Guardian hating me.

We humans, one species of animal amongst millions, have now become the de facto guardians of the planet’s climate stability.

I am, ‘Guardian’ readers keep telling me, a xenophobe. Never mind that I speak French and Spanish, that I love Europe, that I’ve lived a high proportion of my life abroad. The fact that I oppose the political amalgamation of the European Union’s states is ipso facto proof that I dislike foreigners.

Eternal blessings crown my earliest friend,
And round his dwelling guardian saints attend.

I’ve always felt like I had a guardian angel in some of those ways.

‘Guardian Australia’ will connect our Australian audience to our global community and give readers around the world a better understanding of this very significant nation.

You are born with a character; it is given, a gift, as the old stories say, from the guardians upon your birth…Each person enters the world called.

I saw a charity appeal in the Guardian the other day, and it read “Little Zuki has to walk 13 miles a day just to fetch water”. And I couldn’t help thinking, she should move.

The raven once in snowy plumes was drest,
White as the whitest dove’s unsullied breast,
Fair as the guardian of the Capitol,
Soft as the swan; a large and lovely fowl
His tongue, his prating tongue had changed him quite
To sooty blackness from the purest white.

Those tragic comedians, the Chamber of Commerce red hunters, the Women’s Christian Temperance Union smellers, the censors of books, the Klan regulators, the Methodist prowlers, the Baptist guardians of sacred vessels-we have the national mentality of a police lieutenant.

We have thought carefully about how our use of typography, colour, and images can support and enhance ‘Guardian’ journalism. We have introduced a font called Guardian Headline that is simple, confident, and impactful.

“Religions” of the Roman world varied. Most of it was ritual practices. There were periodic occasions when cities honored their guardian deities with sacrifices and ceremonies, to ensure that they stayed happy and kept the city safe.

There will always be some people who think for themselves, even among the self-appointed guardians of the great mass who, after having thrown off the yoke of immaturity themselves, will spread about them the spirit of a reasonable estimate of their own value and of the need for every man to think for himself.

You’re a guardian angel now.”…. I’m your guardian angel,” he said. “I get my very own guardian angel? What, exactly, is your job description?” “Guard your body.” His smile tipped higher. “I take my job seriously, which means I’m going to need to get acquainted with the subject matter on a personal level.

Someday, you will make an excellent guardian ba.” “Thanks,” I muttered. “Can’t wait to be poultry forever.

We’de have to get in and get out the hard way; and if we made a mistake, there was no telling what sort of curse we’de unleash: monster guardians, plagues, fires, exploding donkeys(don’t laugh; they’re bad news).

Nancy’s got a guardian angel. Seven feet plus of muscle and mayhem that goes by the name of Marv.

[N]o country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians of the law and that the law officers are only the machinery for its execution, nothing more.

Never travel faster than your guardian angel can fly.

Mme. Deluzy has said that indifference is a woman’s guardian angel,–a remark not only applicable in France, but all over the world.

Through laziness and cowardice a large part of mankind, even after nature has freed them from alien guidance, gladly remain immature. It is because of laziness and cowardice that it is so easy for others to usurp the role of guardians. It is so comfortable to be a minor!

I don’t write toward a genre, and I try not to make claim to a genre after a book is published. That said, The Guardians isn’t poetry. It’s prose.

Working on an adaptation is not as satisfying, because it’s not your original work: you’re interpreting. With ‘L.A. Confidential,’ I loved the book. In that case, I felt I was guardian of the work, staying as true to the novel as I could. I’ve since met the novelist, and he loves the movie and the script.

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.

After working at the ‘Guardian’ for two decades, I feel I know instinctively why it exists. Most of our journalists and our readers do, too – it’s something to do with holding power to account and upholding liberal values.

You are my Guardian Angel, Maddy,” a voice said, but it was far away from her.

What kind of guardian are you? Shouldn’t you have gone to the bathroom with him?” Isabelle demanded. Jordan looked horrified. “Dudes,” he said, “do not follow other dudes to the bathroom.

Triumphant hours are the Lark’s
Who circles skywards from his home each day:
World’s early riser, with bubbling golden song,
Towards the firmament, guardian of April’s gate.

What gets up my nose is being infantilized by governments, by the BBC, by the Guardian that there is no argument, that all scientists who aren’t cranks and charlatans are agreed on all this, that the consequences are uniformly negative, the issues beyond doubt and the steps to be taken beyond dispute.

The more films we make the more we get to deal with those pre-existing relationships. But when it comes to a movie like Ant-Man or Guardians or certainly Doctor Strange, it’s just bringing to life stuff that’s already been there in the comics and we finally get a chance to do it on the big screen.

As editor, I think we need to act more decisively on what kind of material appears on the ‘Guardian’. Those who argue that this is an affront to freedom of speech miss the point. That freedom counts for little if it is used to silence others.

There is a single main definition of the object of all magical Ritual. It is the uniting of the Microcosm with the Macrocosm. The Supreme and Complete Ritual is therefore the Invocation of the Holy Guardian Angel; or, in the language of Mysticism, Union with God.

Joyce for all his devotion to his art, terrible in its austerity, was a lad born with a song on one side of him, a dance on the other; two gay guardian angels every human ought to have.

As soon as I was old enough to drive, I got a job at a local newspaper. There was someone who influenced me. He wrote a column for The Guardian from this tiny village in India.

Upon the glazen shelves kept watch Matthew and Waldo, guardians of the faith The army of unalterable law.

There is an emerging subgenre of British nonfiction in which journalists from ‘The Guardian’ fearlessly recount their own derring-do in David-and-Goliath battles waged against omnipotent state interests in the pursuit of Big Important Truths.

I wonder what becomes of lost opportunities? Perhaps our guardian angel gathers them up as we drop them, and will give them back to us in the beautiful sometime when we have grown wiser, and learned how to use them rightly.

Dimitri was on a first name basis with one of the most badass guardians around. Of course, Dimitri was pretty badass himself, so I shouldn’t have been surprised.

How happy is that guardian angel who accompanies a soul to Holy Mass!

We should pray to the angels, for they are given to us as guardians.

Darling, when you’re as old as I am, you cherish the very few musicals that have come your way that you know are great classics. You become their guardian.

He has made us the master organizers of the world . . . to overwhelm the forces of reaction throught the earth . . . . This is the divine mission of America . . . . We are trustees of the world’s progress, guardians of its righteous peace. [Progressive]

If I am to truly become an autonomous woman, then I must take over that role of being my own guardian.

Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration.

A guardian is broad-minded and understanding. A guard, on the other hand, is a vigilante, narrow-minded and most of the time despotic.

When I started at the Guardian, though, I couldnt think of anything we saw eye to eye on, except feminism, and even this would soon be arguable as Guardian writers queued up to drool over Eminem.

With eye upraised his master’s looks to scan, The joy, the solace, and the aid of man; The rich man’s guardian, and the poor man’s friend, The only creature faithful to the end.

But the time has come; the revelation has already occurred, and the guardian seers have seen the lightning strike the darkness we call reality. And now we sleep in the brief interval between the lightning and the thunder.

There’s a moment in Sarah Manguso’s The Guardians when she writes, “I try not to make anything up, and I fail every time.” I get giddy when I come across lines like that – when the writer is not only making a meta-move, but one that troubles truth and fiction, the nature of genre itself.

So I feel now very much like a guardian. I’m standing in front of art. I’m standing in front of cinema. I’m standing in front of Black culture. I’m standing in front of the history of America, and I’m protecting it by making art, by protecting our art, and by promoting our art.

The New Deal repudiation of democracy has left the Republican Party alone the guardian of the Ark of the Covenant with its charter of freedom.

I am delighted to be joining ‘Guardian U.S.”s team as a weekly columnist, and to have the chance to address American and global current events on its distinguished platform. ‘Guardian U.S.’ brings the ‘Guardian”s hard-hitting investigative brand to a new focus on American news and opinion.

I’m a wishy-washy ‘Guardian’ reader, but the last thing I want to do is force a political agenda down people’s throats. It’s not central to my work, unlike, say, China Mieville, who’s very politicised.

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 fire to our friends, a cloud of overwhelming and impenetrable darkness to our enemies.

The nutcracker sits under the holiday tree, a guardian of childhood stories. Feed him walnuts and he will crack open a tale.

I didn’t believe in a guardian angel when I was young. I was brought up in the Protestant faith, and the one thing you had over your Catholic friends was that you didn’t have those awful saints chivvying you around.

I think that as the guardian of justice elected by the people it’s our duty to use whatever forms of force, police, army, to make sure that at least the freedom of choice is preserved.

Ask any successful person, and most will tell you that they had a person who believed in them… a teacher, a friend, a parent, a guardian, a sister, a grandmother. It only takes one person, and it doesn’t really matter who it is.

Our state ceremonies have a religious foundation. We have compulsory religious education. And the Church should be a moral guardian. We have in this country a long Christian heritage and Christian culture and we shouldn’t be in too much of a hurry to give that up.

Yes, I believe in guardian angels, because otherwise I must believe that life is a string of death-defying miracles – and I don’t believe in miracles.

I started at ‘The Daily Telegraph’ as a daily news reporter. I moved then to ‘The Guardian,’ and then I moved to New York as the correspondent for ‘The Guardian,’ moved to ‘The Times of London.’ And really, it was the best job you could imagine. You could cover any story you wanted in America.

My mother has become my daughter and I’ve become her guardian.

The twin guardian angels whose eyes and hands and wings had focused protective attention on the souls that lay there no longer faced each other. They stared blindly into a random middle distance. The scroll they held between them proclaiming eternal resurrection was broken in two.

The State must act as the guardian of a millennial future in the face of which the wishes and the selfishness of the individual must appear as nothing and submit.

Cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy.

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

For myself it would be most irksome to be ruled by a bevy of Platonic Guardians, even if I knew how to choose them, which I assuredly do not.

I read the ‘Guardian,’ because it’s a bit like having an argument with a mate. We mostly have the same sensibilities, but where we disagree, it’s infuriating.

The secret of the superiority of state over private education lies in the fact
that in the former the teacher is responsible to society … [T]he result
desired by the state is a wholly different one from that desired by parents,
guardians, and pupils.

The guardian and arbiter of superlative eating, with every meal an unforgettable experience in pleasure, starting with the soup, which he said, ‘must be the agent provocateur of a good dinner.’

If you talked or laughed in church, told lies, had impure thoughts or conversations, you were bad; if you obeyed your parents or guardians, went to confession and communion regularly, said prayers for the dead, you were good.

Come on soldiers! Guardians and agents of the supreme law! Here is a sacrifice of dogs ready for your swords!

The Hudson’s Bay Company has always been the guardian angel of the north.

In listening mood she seemed to stand, The guardian Naiad of the strand.

A good wife is heaven’s last, best gift to man, – his gem of many virtues, his casket of jewels; her voice is sweet music, her smiles his brightest day, her kiss the guardian of his innocence, her arms the pale of his safety.

If I was to be their real teacher and guardian, I must touch their hearts, I must share their joys and sorrows, I must help them to solve the problems that faced them, and I must take along the right channel the surging aspirations of their youth.

In mauve sea-orchids as in her striking earlier book Guardians of the Secret, Lila Zemborain brings into relationship the viscera of the body and the spill of the universe in tense compositions that blur distinctions between lyric and prose poetry, between science and eros.

The E.U. cannot act as guardian of the post-Cold War status quo without risking a collapse of Europe’s current institutional infrastructure.

Rage against the world, if you like, but quietly, or the Guardians will awake.

My Guardian is the Planet of Silence. Soldier Of Death and Rebirth Sailor Saturn! – Hotaru as Sailor Saturn

Skeptics squat by the road like guardians of truth, letting no one pass who doesn’t come up to scratch. They never realize that they can see only what their paradigm tells them to look for. If you judge a person only by how well he plays pool, Mozart won’t pass scrutiny, but the fault is in your lens.

A degree of culture, and assuredly a very high one, is attained when man rises above superstitions and religious notions and fears, and, for instance, no longer believes in guardian angels or in original sin, and has also ceased to talk of the salvation of his soul.

Assuming, as you grow older, that you’re the guardian of the world’s wisdom, even if you haven’t necessarily lived enough to know what’s right and wrong.

When I started at the ‘Guardian,’ though, I couldn’t think of anything we saw eye to eye on, except feminism, and even this would soon be arguable as ‘Guardian’ writers queued up to drool over Eminem.

the boys of the rising generation are to be the men of the next, and the sole guardians of the principles we deliver over to them.

With eye upraised his master’s look to scan, The joy, the solace, and the aid of man: The rich man’s guardian and the poor man’s friend, The only creature faithful to the end.

Dimitri: “Were you really going to attack all of us? Doing that…protecting her like that – it was very brave. Stupid, but still brave. Why did you even try it?” Rose: “Because I’m her guardian.”

I was sad Jon Ronson, who wrote in the Guardian and has made a TV show for Channel 4, took against me.

The Almighty implanted in us these inextinguishable feelings for good and wise purposes. They are the guardians of His image in our heart. They distinguish us from the herd of common animals.

Necessity is a guardian in Nature.

If the transmigration of a soul takes place into a rational being, it simply becomes the soul of that body. But if the soul migrates into a brute beast, it follows the body outside, as a guardian spirit follows a man. For there could never be a rational soul in an irrational being.

You have the gift of a brilliant internal guardian that stands ready to warn you of hazards and guide you through risky situations.

That a guardian should require another guardian to take care of him is ridiculous indeed.

I usually like ‘The Guardian’ and its journalistic bent, but sometimes ‘The Independent.’ And if I’m being totally honest, some weekends I’ll have a ‘News of the Screws’ or a ‘Sunday Spurt.’ You need high and lowbrow.

My mother gave birth to me on the floor of our apartment in Mecca with only my toddler sister to help her because my father was at work and no male guardian was available to take her to a hospital.

As the guardian of our rights, the Supreme Court makes decisions every year which either protect the individual or leave him at the mercy of more powerful forces in our society.

Whatever his private beliefs and religious practice, a president must be the guardian of the laws which ensure America’s religious diversity.

Sometimes love needed a lift from its guardian angels, to get its feet off the ground. But once it made its first early beats toward flight, it had to be trusted to take wing on its own and soar past the highest conceivable heights, into the heavens-and beyond.

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, not our production economy, not even our democratic system of government. For all of these are worthless if we lack the brain power to support and sustain them.

It’s curious that throughout our history together, with no apparent effort, people have been able to think of the cat simultaneously as the guardian spirit of the hearth and home, and as the emblem of freedom, independence, and rootlessness.

Genius everywhere is one. In the Orient and in the Occident the deep thinkers are kin, the poets are cousins, the pioneers of the spirit are the messengers of peace and good will to the world. Their works are the open highways between nations, and they themselves are the ever living guardians and guides.

Mooner was walking around laying his hands on the cars, divining karma. “this is it”, he said, standing by a small khaki-colored jeep.”this car has protective qualities” You mean like a guardian angel?” I mean, like, it has seatbelts

The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us.

Hey, Carlos,” the Professor says when he walks in. “How was REACH?” “It sucked.” “Can you be more specific?” my guardian asks. “It really sucked,” I elaborate, sarcasm dripping from every word.

and yet she was leaving the world as a woman who had love and been loved back. she was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. a mother. a person of consequence at last.

.. we shall not be properly educated ourselves, nor will the guardians whom we are training, until we can recognise the qualities of discipline, courage, generosity, greatness of mind, and others akin to them, as well as their opposites in all their manifestations.

A man’s character is his guardian divinity.

You understand your responsibilities better than guardians twice your age. You’ll do what you have to do to succeed.

I always resented having a guardian and the restrictions of going to school at the studio.

I believe every person has a guardian spirit or angel. They assist us in the transition between life and death and they also help us pick our parents before we are born.
Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

Animals are not resources or property with whom we can do what we please, their lives matter very much, and they should be firmly entrenched in our moral community. Accepting the notion of ‘animal guardian’ to replace ‘pet owner’ will go a long way towards making the lives of our companions much better and richer.

The people are the best guardians of their own rights and it is the duty of their executive to abstain from interfering in or thwarting the sacred exercise of the lawmaking functions of their government.

Your two guardian angels are always with you. The other angels come and go as we need them.

He glanced over at me, a smile twisting his lips. “Hey, no advice, Ghost Girl. Guardians should be seen and not heard.” I flipped him off for the “Ghost Girl” comment but he didn’t notice because Lissa was talking to him again.

Sanctified by their initiatory experiences and furnished with their spirit guardians, the shaman alone among human beings is able to consciously travel into the spiritual worlds as cosmic explorers.