Parentlike Quotes & Sayings

But are we even capable of maintaining a Republic anymore? Are there enough citizens willing to do the hard work that self-rule requires, or have we become a people who would rather be cared for, fed, clothed, housed, and told what's best for us by a parentlike state? Unfortunately, the evidence suggests the latter. — Glenn Beck

I think you've got good people and bad people in everything you do. If you start making a big deal of it, then it's a problem. It's like in life. We've got bad doctors and lawyers. We've got bad priests! We don't target every priest and say he's bad. You have to go to church and you have to go see some doctors. Some people have to be good. — Master P

But my eagerness to sacrifice little children in order to save mankind is wearing thin. — Orson Scott Card

You get a different kick out of all aspects of filmmaking. — Guy Ritchie

I cannot consent to take the position that the door of hope - the door of opportunity - is to be shut upon any man, no matter how worthy, purely upon the grounds of race or color. Such an attitude would, according to my convictions, be fundamentally wrong. — Theodore Roosevelt

Libraries really are the gates to the future. So it is unfortunate that, round the world, we observe local authorities seizing the opportunity to close libraries as an easy way to save money, without realising that they are stealing from the future to pay for today. They are closing the gates that should be open. — Neil Gaiman

Agile does not mean laissez-faire, flexibility and freedom are based on the well-defined principles. — Pearl Zhu

When I create a fantasy world, I want it all. — Ruth Cardello

Seeing occurs, of course, through stopping thought. Thought is the fog. When thought stops in meditation, at any point, when there's no thought, we see the other shore. — Frederick Lenz

You cannot separate charity and religion. — Charles Caleb Colton

You know when i was a little kid in oregon i didn't feel that i was and american at all, with all that suburban ideal and sex repression and general dreary newspaper gray censorship of all our real human values but and when i discovered buddhism and all i suddenly felt that i had lived in a previous lifetime innumerable ages ago and now because of the faults and sins in that lifetime i was being degraded to a more grievous domain of existence and my karma was to be born in america where nobody has any fun or believes in anything, especially freedom. — Jack Kerouac

Most people lie and let life play upon them like the tepid discharges of a douche-bag. — Lawrence Durrell

It was a night when London was ringed and stabbed with fire. — Ernie Pyle

I don't know what I'm doing, or where I'm going, but I do know that I want to do whatever it is and get there soon. — J.A. Redmerski