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  • Thousands of years ago the question was asked: "Am I my brother's keeper?" That question has never yet been answered in a way that is satisfactory to civilized society.

    Brother   Years   Way  
    "The Issue". Eugene V. Debs' speech in Girard, Kansas, May 23, 1908.
  • The monstrosity of bureaucracy, I thought: always the pint-pot judging the gallon, the scribe's, the door-keeper's world. Always the stupidity of people who feel certain about things they never try to find out. A world that educates people to be ignorant - that is what this world of ours is.

    Doors   Judging   People  
    Freya Stark (1964). “The Journey's Echo: Selections”
  • Although I may not be my brother's keeper, I am my brother's brother, and 'because I have been given much, I too must give.'

  • I don't think I would have minded you being the keeper of my secrets.

  • Ah, children, pity level-crossing keepers, pity lock-keepers - pity lighthouse-keepers - pity all the keepers of this world (pity even school teachers), caught between their conscience and the bleak horizon.

    Graham Swift (1991). “Waterland”, Simon & Schuster
  • There is always a chance that he who sets himself up as his brother's keeper will end up by being his jail-keeper.

    Brother   Jail   Chance  
    Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”
  • While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.

  • Let me introduce myself. My name is, uh, Kangaroo... Kangaroo - Captain Kangaroo ... I'm the keeper here of the Treasure House.

    Names   House   Kangaroos  
    "Fictional character: Captain Kangaroo". TV Series "Captain Kangaroo", October 3, 1955.
  • In every generation there is a vault-keeper, one who guards the links fiercely and knows they are more precious than rubies.

  • I think that every enduring story that has expressions over multiple periods, that role of being the keeper of the integrity of the vision is a very important role.

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  • We children of schizophrenics are the great secret keepers, the ones who don't want you to think that anything is wrong.

    Mira Bartok (2011). “The Memory Palace”, p.5, Simon and Schuster
  • Reading is the gateway to so many things that helps makes it possible for seven billion people to live together on one planet. Literature is the great extra-somatic keeper of our knowledge of what it is to be human. Reading elevates us. We read to be our best selves.

    Reading   Self   People  
  • Trees have from time immemorial been closely associated with magic. These stout members of the vegetable kingdom may stand for as long as a thousand years, and tower far above our mortal heads. As such they are symbols and keepers of unlimited power, longevity, and timelessness. An untouched forest, studded with trees of all ages, sizes and types, is more than a mysterious, magical place - it is one of the energy reservoirs of nature. Within its boundaries stand ancient and new sentinels, guardians of the universal force which has manifested on the the Earth. . . .

    Vegetables   Years   Long  
  • I believe that everyone is the keeper of a dream – and by tuning into one another’s secret hopes, we can become better friends, better partners, better parents, and better lovers.

  • We've drifted away from being fishers of men to being keepers of the aquarium.

    Men   Aquariums   Keepers  
  • Librarians are not just gatekeepers to knowledge, they are what the American Indians used to call their special sages who preserved the oral legends of a tribe: dream keepers.

    Dream   Special   Legends  
  • Good taste" is a virtue of the keepers of museums. If you scorn bad taste, you will have neither painting nor dancing, neither palaces nor gardens.

  • American life is builded ... upon that fundamental philosophy announced by the Savior nineteen centuries ago ... [It] can not survive with the defense of Cain, "Am I my brother's keeper?

  • Most of us are called on to perform tasks far beyond what we can do. Our capabilities seldom match our aspirations, and we are often woefully unprepared. To this extent, we are all Assistant Pig-Keepers at heart.

    Heart   Pigs   Tasks  
    Lloyd Alexander (2013). “The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.179, Macmillan
  • If you want to take the meaning of the word integrity and reduce it to its simplest terms, you'd conclude that a man of integrity is a promise keeper. When he gives you his word. You can take it to the bank. His word is good.

    Honesty   Integrity   Men  
  • Under normal circumstances, if the centerpiece of a president's campaign is helping the disadvantaged and we are our brother's keeper, the idea that this same guy has an actual brother living in third-world poverty without any help from Obama, this would have been on the cover of 'The New York Times.' But none of them are touching it.

    "Filmgoers flock to anti-Obama doc" by Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. August 24, 2012.
  • No matter what has happened, you're not a pig-boy; you're an Assistant Pig Keeper!

    Boys   Pigs   Matter  
    Lloyd Alexander (2006). “The Black Cauldron”, p.155, Macmillan
  • ...she needed to confirm its presence. Like the keeper of the lighthouse and the prisoner, she regarded it as a mooring, a checkpoint, some stable visual object that assured her that the world was still there; that this was like and not a dream. That she was alive somewhere, inside, which she acknowledged to be true only because a thing she knew intimately was out there, outside of herself.

    Dream   Alive   World  
    Toni Morrison (1987). “Sula”
  • It is that fundamental belief, it is that fundamental belief, I am my brother’s keeper, I am my sister’s keeper that makes this country work. It’s what allows us to pursue our individual dreams and yet still come together as one American family. E pluribus unum. Out of many, one.

    Dream   Country   Brother  
    2004 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 27 July 2004, Fleet Center, Boston
  • Good keepers sniff out attacks whether with the feet or a throw out.

    Feet   Keepers  
    "Wandering With USA Goalkeeper Tim Howard" by Alan Black, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 19, 2011.
  • And what is true of a shop-keeper is true of a shop-keeping nation.

    Keepers   Shops   Nations  
    A Letter from a Merchant in London to his Nephew in North America (1766) See Napoleon 5; Adam Smith 7
  • Lily and James only made you Secret-Keeper because I suggested it,” Black hissed, so venomously that Pettigrew took a step backward. “I thought it was the perfect plan... a bluff... Voldemort would be sure to come after me, would never dream they’d use a weak, talentless thing like you... It must have been the finest moment of your miserable life, telling Voldemort you could hand him the Potters.

    Dream   Hands   Perfect  
  • For my own part I would as soon be descended from that heroic little monkey, who braved his dreaded enemy in order to save the life of his keeper; or from that old baboon, who, descending from the mountains, carried away in triumph his young comrade from a crowd of astonished dogs-as from a savage who delights to torture his enemies, offers up bloody sacrifices, practices infanticide without remorse, treats his wives like slaves, knows no decency, and is haunted by the grossest superstitions.

    Dog   Sacrifice   Order  
    The Descent of Man ch. 21 (1871)
  • You aren't a bit romantic, are you?" he asked, amused. She sat back and stared at him. She was beginning to think that Neal required a keeper. He seemed to have the craziest ideas. "Romance? Isn't that love stuff?" She asked finally. "It's more than just love. It's color, and-and fire. You don't want things magnificent and filled with-with grandeur," he said, trying to make her understand. "You know, drama. Importance. Transcendent Passion." "I just want to be a knight," Kel retorted, putting her used tableware on her tray. "Eat your vegetables. They're good for you.

    Tamora Pierce (2007). “First Test: Book 1 of the Protector of the Small Quartet”, p.59, Random House Books for Young Readers
  • Pride requires very costly food-its keeper's happiness.

    Pride   Keepers  
    Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.459
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