Responsibility Quotes

"Day care poses no risk for children, provided that it is high quality…. Poor quality day care is risky for children everywhere.. .. The cost of poor quality day care is measured in children's lives. High quality day care costs only money."

- Sandra Scarr

"If it is important to you, you will find a way. If not, you'll find an excuse."

- Ryan Blair

"If agriculture goes wrong, nothing else will have a chance to go right."

- M. S. Swaminathan

"Agriculture is the backbone of the livelihood security system of nearly 700 million people in the country and we need to build our food security on the foundation of home grown food."

- M. S. Swaminathan

"I have always said there is only one thing that can bring our nation down - our dependence on foreign countries for food and energy. Agriculture is the backbone of our economy."

- John Salazar

"Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get."

- H. Jackson Brown

"Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of humanity."

- Daniel Webster

"He even knew the reason why: because enough men had gone off to war saying the time for gardening was when the war was over; whereas there must be men to stay behind and keep gardening alive, or at least the idea of gardening; because once that cord was broken, the earth would grow hard and forget her children. That was why."

- J.M. Coetzee

"You are an example. Whether you are a good example or not is up to you."

- Steve Ferrante

"Real fatherhood means love and commitment and sacrifice and a willingness to share responsibility and not walking away from one's children."

- William Bennett

"I don't want to look back and say, 'Yeah, I was really successful, but I failed at fatherhood because I wasn't there."

- Zac Brown

"A man's worth is measured by how he parents his children. What he gives them, what he keeps away from them, the lessons he teaches, and the lessons he allows them to learn on their own."

- Lisa Rogers

"Because it's your responsibility."

- Nala

"Motherhood is a choice you make every day to put someone else's happiness and well-being ahead of your own, to teach the hard lessons, to do the right thing even when you're not sure what the right thing is, … and to forgive yourself over and over again for doing everything wrong."

- Donna Ball