Guardian Quotes

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius. (Joseph Addison)
The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty. View quote
James Madison
Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things. View quote
Cicero
Conscience is the guardian in the individual of the rules which the community has evolved for its own preservation. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
I have more dumb luck thank anybody I know. There must be a convey of guardian angels working twenty-four hours a day looking after me[...] Like the night I first got to Nashville that I laid down in the middle of Broadway, waiting to get run over. It didn't happen [...] I could swear they were keeping me alive just to see what I'd get next, I'm glad they feel that way. I'm trying to help them a little more this days. View quote
Willie Nelson
Something you want badly enough can always be gained. No matter how fierce the enemy, how remote the beautiful lady, or how carefully guarded the treasure, there is always a means to the goal for the earnest seeker. The unseen help of the guardian gods of heaven and earth assure fulfillment. View quote
Dōgen
More than ten million women march to work every morning side by side with the men. Steadily the importance of women is gaining notonly in the routine tasks of industry but in executive responsibility. I include also the woman who stays at home as the guardian of the welfare of the family. She is a partner in the job and wages. Women constitute a part of our industrial achievement. View quote
Herbert Hoover
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. View quote
Helen Keller
I'm referred to, I see, as 'the biggest banker in modern publishing'. Now there's a line that needed the celebrated Guardian proof-reading. View quote
Terry Pratchett
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. View quote
Dafydd ap Gwilym
The legislator is an indispensable guardian of our freedom. It is true that great executives have played a powerful role in the development of civilization, but such leaders appear sporadically, by chance. They do not always appear when they are most needed. The great executives have given inspiration and push to the advancement of human society, but it is the legislator who has given stability and continuity to that slow and painful progress. (J. William Fulbright)
Necessity is the mistress and guardian of Nature. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude. View quote
Rainer Maria Rilke
We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs. View quote
Augustine of Hippo
The law was our guardian until Christ came, in order that we might be justified by faith. But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian. View quote
Paul
Someday, you will make an excellent guardian ba.” "Thanks,” I muttered. "Can't wait to be poultry forever. View quote
Rick Riordan
My Guardian is the Planet of Silence. Soldier Of Death and Rebirth Sailor Saturn! - Hotaru as Sailor Saturn. View quote
Naoko Takeuchi
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. View quote
P. C. Cast
I was once hired to write a column for 'The Guardian' and then got fired before I'd submitted my first one. That was unusual. Most newspapers wait until I've written at least one piece for them before firing me. View quote
Toby Young
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. View quote
Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
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. (Curtis Sliwa)
I never wanted a Guardian Angel. I didn't ask for one. One was assigned to me. View quote
Mercedes McCambridge
My mother has become my daughter and I've become her guardian. View quote
Phillip Lim
Women of child-bearing age steadily run out of eggs by the continuous process of cell death. While reading a copy of the Guardian carefully from cover to cover, a normal woman will have lost on average two eggs - while, typically, a normal man will have made 70,000 new sperm. View quote
Robert Winston
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. View quote
Roma Downey