Safe Keeping Quotes

• My conviction of the necessity of further legislative provisions for the safe-keeping and disbursement of the public moneys and my opinion in regard to the measures best adapted to the accomplishment of those objects have been already submitted to you.

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  Martin Van Buren

  Safe Keeping   Accomplishment   Opinion  

  United States. President (1837-1841 : Van Buren), Martin Van Buren (1838). “Message from the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress: At the Commencement of the Third Session of the Twenty-fifth Congress”, p.10

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• Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.

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  George Eliot

  Best Friend   Friendship   Relationship  

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• I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again

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  Jean Baudrillard

  Safe Keeping   Banking   Bankers  

  Jean Baudrillard (1989). “America”, p.61, Verso

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• Six books… my mother didn’t want books falling into my hands. It never occurred to her that I fell into the books – that I put myself inside them for safe keeping.

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  Jeanette Winterson

  Mother   Book   Fall  

  Jeanette Winterson (2011). “Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?”, p.36, Random House

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• It is done... the precious portrait placed in the hands of the gentlemen for safe keeping.

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  Dolley Madison

  Safe Keeping   Hands   Gentleman  

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• You could carve out the inside of a brick and hide your money in it for safe keeping. It’s certainly safer than keeping it in the bank!

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  Nicole McKay

  Safe Keeping   Safe   Bricks  

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• I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?

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  Jean Baudrillard

  Safe Keeping   Bankers   Banking  

  Jean Baudrillard (1989). “America”, p.61, Verso

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• We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

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  Midge Decter

  Strong   Growing Up   Maturity  

  Midge Decter (1975). “Liberal parents, radical children”, Coward McCann

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• A poem is a box, a thing, to put other things in. For safe keeping.

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  Marianne Boruch

  Safe Keeping   Safe   Boxes  

  Marianne Boruch (2017). “The Little Death of Self: Nine Essays Toward Poetry”, p.54, University of Michigan Press

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