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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty. -- James Madison
I never wanted a Guardian Angel. I didn't ask for one. One was assigned to me. -- Mercedes McCambridge
If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius. -- Joseph Addison
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. -- Roma Downey
I get up, go and get a coffee, and go do the crossword - I'm loyal to one particular paper, the 'Guardian' - and that's my idea of a perfect morning. -- Laura Marling
God, why do I give interviews to 'the Guardian'? They always try to dissect you, and I don't really think about stuff in the way that you're asking me these questions. -- Jamie Oliver
When I started at the 'Guardian,' though, I couldn't think of anything we saw eye to eye on, except feminism, and even this would soon be arguable as 'Guardian' writers queued up to drool over Eminem. -- Julie Burchill
All my books are accidental books - they come from reacting to things and thinking about things and engaging in a real way. They are not about, 'Oh, did it get a good review in the Guardian?' I don't care. -- Arundhati Roy
I regret trusting The Guardian. I didn't want to do an interview, but the journalist was persistent. [The writer] was masked as a fan, but was hiding sinister ambitions and angles. Maybe he's actually the boring one looking for something interesting to write about. -- Lana Del Rey
When I was a child I thought I saw an angel. It had wings and kinda looked like my sister. I opened the door so some light could come into the room, and it sort of faded away. My mother said it was probably my Guardian Angel. -- Denzel Washington
Kind 'Guardian' readers have been forwarding me round robin Christmas newsletters for years now: lengthy missives full of perfect children, exotic holidays, talented pets and endless, tedious detail. The notes that accompanied them revealed they had inspired in the original recipients everything from mild irritation to absolute rage. -- Simon Hoggart
Guardian angels guide the steps of idiots. -- Nancy Farmer
Dammit, Jim. I'm a Guardian, not a doctor. -- Katie MacAlister
No human could withstand a Guardian's warning glare. -- Andrea Cremer
A Guardian is only as strong as its Muse. -- Susie M. Hanley
A rotten apple in the Guardian Angels stigmatizes us all over the world. -- Curtis Sliwa
The Holy Guardian Angel is the spiritual Sun of the Soul of the Adept. -- Aleister Crowley
The Guardian's 'Word of Mouth' blog bridges the gap between blogging and serious food journalism. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
I like to be loved by my children, and I quite like the Guardian hating me. -- Jeremy Clarkson
You are my Guardian Angel, Maddy," a voice said, but it was far away from her. -- Scott Speer
My Guardian is the Planet of Silence. Soldier Of Death and Rebirth Sailor Saturn! - Hotaru as Sailor Saturn -- Naoko Takeuchi
Guardian Belikov is the princess's guardian now, said Kirova, Her sanctioned guardian.You got cheap foreign labour to protect Lissa? -- Richelle Mead
Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get---people,storms, guardian angels, or sheep.... -- John Muir
I was sad Jon Ronson, who wrote in the Guardian and has made a TV show for Channel 4, took against me. -- Jonathan King
So the nature required to make a really noble Guardian of our commonwealth will be swift and strong, spirited, and philosophic. -- Plato
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. -- Terry Pratchett
How oft,"?be witness, Guardian of our days!... The sky besprinkled o'er with rainbow hues, As if angelic wings had wanton'd there;... -- Robert Montgomery
Be the best Guardian you can be. Save lots of people. And every time you save someone, think of me." -Maddy -- Scott Speer
The sign of a true Guardian is to guide a child with integrity and to leave the student with the wisdom of choice. -- Peter SMith Talking Cures
Lucy Fry and I became very good friends on the setâ?¦I called her â??Royal Hignessâ?? & she answered, â??Yes, my Guardian. -- Danila Kozlovsky
Sometimes I think I must have a Guardian Idiot. A little invisible spirit just behind my shoulder, looking out for me...only he's an imbecile. -- Spider Robinson
Every one was born with a guardian angel.Guardian angels brightens our journey of life with divine love,protection,peace, healing,grace,strength and miracles. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Our Guardian Angels are our most faithful friends, because they are with us day and night, always and everywhere. We ought often to invoke them. -- John Vianney
The Guardian,' with its deep journalistic traditions, is careful about context and explanation. It sees itself as a gatekeeper, and it worries about consequences. -- Graydon Carter
The Devil writes down our sins - our Guardian Angel all our merits. Labor that the Guardian Angel's book may be full, and the Devil's empty. -- John Vianney
When they know what makes you cry, they know what hurts you most. Don't give your enemies that. Solin, character in The Guardian by Sherrilyn Kenyon -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
When they know what makes you cry, they know what hurts you most. Don't give your enemies that." Solin, character in The Guardian by Sherrilyn Kenyon -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I say making movies is like eating a sandwich of shit. Sometimes you get more bread, sometimes less bread, but you always get shit. (Guardian interview 2006) -- Guillermo del Toro
If We Are The Guardian Of The Flame Of Humanity...Then We Must Care For All Of It's Children. For In It's Spirit...They Are All Sacred! -- Timothy Pina
I was thinking of applying to the 'Guardian' for a job after university. Yeah, I wanted to be one of the people who writes stories in G2. -- Jamie Cullum
I told you; I am Arianna, the Siren, your Guardian, and how is a Guardian supposed to do her job if she is clueless about the Guardianee? -- Erica Sehyun Song
I don't regard that as a Guardian Angle. I really do think, in a sense, that we are our own Guardian Angles. But we don't listen to ourselves. -- Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki
Make no mistake, Marin...a Dragon Guardian may not always be the one sitting upon the throne, but he or she is the protector of the entire realm. -- Aida Jacobs
May the light of the Guardian dwell in you always, and may you be a source of light in those places where shadows gather. (Mariah Templeton, Earth's Watcher to Ben) -- Dianne Astle
Therefore for Spirits, I am so far from denying their existence that I could easily believe, that not only whole Countries, but particular persons, have their Tutelary and Guardian Angels. -- Thomas Browne
I am not enough in myself; I can barely make it through buying milk and school supplies. Thank goodness there is a Guardian to come before me and throw off the dark. -- Anna White
When the 'Guardian' is commissioning writers to write obituary pieces about you and your career... it doesn't get much nastier than that. And you've just got to go, 'It doesn't actually matter.' -- James Corden
What makes me angry'is that it wasn't me who revealed that I had been with Osama Bin Laden. I originally denied being involved with Osama when the London Guardian threatened to 'out' me. -- Kola Boof
I saw a charity appeal in the Guardian the other day, and it read "Little Zuki has to walk 13 miles a day just to fetch water". And I couldn't help thinking, she should move. -- Jimmy Carr
When you see sparkling lights with no physical origin and no medical eye issues, it means that you are seeing Angel Lights, which are the energies of your Guardian Angels and Archangels moving around you. -- Doreen Virtue
When I started at the Guardian, though, I couldnt think of anything we saw eye to eye on, except feminism, and even this would soon be arguable as Guardian writers queued up to drool over Eminem. -- Julie Burchill
As soon as I was old enough to drive, I got a job at a local newspaper. There was someone who influenced me. He wrote a column for The Guardian from this tiny village in India. -- Nicholas D. Kristof
And you, being a good man, can pass it as such, and forgive and pity the dreamer, and be lenient and encouraging when he wakes? --RickIndeed I can. What am I but another dreamer, Rick? --Guardian -- Charles Dickens
I thought I had been a suffragist before I became a Poor Law Guardian, but now I began to think about the vote in women's hands not only as a right but as a desperate necessity. -- Emmeline Pankhurst
You don't get shouted at at the 'Guardian.' Nobody bullies you at the paper; nobody tells you what to write. Now, I love working in that atmosphere; I am free to research and write what I want. -- Nick Davies
Memory is fiction . . . All memory is a way of reconstructing the past. . . The act of narrating a memory is the act of creating fiction. [Armitstead, ClaireDamon Galgut talks about his novel In a Strange Room. The Guardian. 10 September 2010.] -- Damon Galgut
Listen to what you have written. A dud rhythm in a passage of dialogue may show that you don't yet understand the characters well enough to write in their voices."[Ten rules for writing fiction (The Guardian, 20 February 2010)] -- Helen Dunmore
Memory is fiction . . . All memory is a way of reconstructing the past. . . The act of narrating a memory is the act of creating fiction. [Armitstead, ClaireDamon Galgut talks about his novel In a Strange Room." The Guardian. 10 September 2010.]" -- Damon Galgut
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. -- Toby Young
There were always plenty of newspapers in the house. The Times, Guardian, Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail were all regular fixtures on the coffee table. I used to enjoy reading The Times editorial pages and the Daily Mail sports pages. -- Lionel Barber
There were always plenty of newspapers in the house. 'The Times', 'Guardian', 'Daily Telegraph' and 'Daily Mail' were all regular fixtures on the coffee table. I used to enjoy reading 'The Times' editorial pages and the 'Daily Mail' sports pages. -- Lionel Barber
I think that overall, ultimately the impact of advertisers calling the shots is a more cloying, complacent culture. For example, it was just announced that Unilever is branding environmental content at The Guardian. How radical or pointed can that content be? -- Astra Taylor
Guardian angels are perhaps the most popular kind, probably because we all know how fragile life can be. We desperately need protection from unexpected circumstances and unseen dangers. Just the thought of good angels hovering around us gives people a feeling of safety! -- Gary Kinnaman
Read widely and with discrimination. Bad writing is contagious.[Ten rules for writing fiction, The Guardian, 20 February 2010 (with Diana Athill, Margaret Atwood, Roddy Doyle, Helen Dunmore, Geoff Dyer, Anne Enright, Richard Ford, Jonathan Franzen, Esther Freud, Neil Gaiman, David Hare, and AL Kennedy)] -- P. D. James
What concerns me is that the Independent is going, and there are job cuts at the Guardian, but the wretched Daily Mail is still rampant, making lots of money by millions of people clicking on pictures of cellulited women. I think that's sad. -- Alastair Campbell
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. -- P. C. Cast
I believe we have an obligation to read for pleasure, in private and in public places. If we read for pleasure, if others see us reading, then we learn, we exercise our imaginations. We show others that reading is a good thing."[The Guardian, 15 October 2013] -- Neil Gaiman
Guardian angels of the home - Rose and soft green Healing angels - Deep sapphire blue Angels of maternity and birth - Sky blue Ceremonial angels - White Angels of music - White Nature angels - Apple green Angels of beauty and art - Yellow.... -- Geoffrey Hodson
There is a single main definition of the object of all magical Ritual. It is the uniting of the Microcosm with the Macrocosm. The Supreme and Complete Ritual is therefore the Invocation of the Holy Guardian Angel; or, in the language of Mysticism, Union with God. -- Aleister Crowley
In a film muddied by fictional detail, the new Spielberg production 'Fifth Estate''s portrayal of the 'Guardian''s work with Wikileaks is accurate in describing the running dispute between journalists who wanted to redact documents to make them safe and Julian Assange, who wanted no such restraint. -- Nick Davies
The New York Times and The Guardian came out and said, "Hey, clemency for Snowden." But for me, the key - and I've said this from the beginning: it's not about me. I don't care if I get clemency. I don't care what happens to me. -- Edward Snowden
My parents were Northern Ireland Labour party people. We read the 'Guardian' and the 'New Statesman,' listened to the BBC. The house was full of books. We didn't get a television until 'That Was The Week That Was' started. There was nothing to do but read. -- Tom Paulin
But hatred and rage solve nothing. Like a might fire, they quickly consume whatever is fed them.Yet it can't last. Soon enough, they devour all around them and burn out, leaving nothing but a hollowed shell no longer capable of feeling anything at all. (First Guardian) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
If you call them a sin against nature again, I will end you. Ethan's hand was on his dagger's hiltLook who's a born-again Guardian evangelist now. Connor laughedWhat's up with that? A blush slid up Ethan's neckNothing. They're our allies. That's all. Sure it is. Conner said. -- Andrea Cremer
A so-called news organization called the Denver Guardian - which, by the way, doesn't exist - wrote an article and pushed it on social media that said that the pope had endorsed Donald Trump. That's the perfect definition of fake news. It was intentionally designed to deceive. -- Vivian Schiller
It always confused me how Smalley managed to keep enrolment limited only to Guardian bloodlines. I don't know, maybe she put some charm up that made people think about dead puppies every time they stepped on campus. That's what I would have done, anyway, if I were headmistress. -- Cecily White
Denis Healey refused to contribute an article to the 'Guardian' about his intentions, and was punished by the electorate - and then all Labour MPs - for his presumption in assuming they already knew everything about him. He became famously the best prime minister we never had. Perhaps. -- Simon Hoggart
I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for me to look at it, to find out about it, to discover who I might be inside it.[Patrick Ness slams library cuts (The Guardian, 23 June 2011)] -- Patrick Ness
His Greatness the King Pteppicymon XXVIII, Lord of the Heavens, Charioteer of the Wagon of the Sun, Steersman of the Barque of the Sun, Guardian of the Secret Knowledge, Lord of the Horizon, Keeper of the Way, the Flail of Mercy, the High Born One, the Never Dying King. -- Terry Pratchett
I am delighted to be joining 'Guardian U.S.'s team as a weekly columnist, and to have the chance to address American and global current events on its distinguished platform. 'Guardian U.S.' brings the 'Guardian's hard-hitting investigative brand to a new focus on American news and opinion. -- Naomi Wolf
A man's character is his guardian divinity. -- Heraclitus
Never travel faster than your guardian angel can fly. -- Mother Teresa
Perchance the chemist is already damned and the guardian the blackest. -- L. Wolfe Gilbert
The worst of guardians is a cruel ruler. Beware of becoming one of them. -- Muhammad
That a guardian should require another guardian to take care of him is ridiculous indeed. -- Plato
a good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude -- Rainer Maria Rilke
We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs. -- Saint Augustine
I wanted to get an angel wings tatooed on my back, as a guardian thing. -- Kirsten Dunst
I like to believe that I've got a lot of guardian warriors sittin' on my shoulder including my dad. -- Patrick Swayze
Although you appear in earthly form Your essence is pure Consciousness. You are the fearless guardian of Divine Light. -- Rumi
When I look back on my life, I wonder how I survived - my mother said I had a guardian angel. -- Micky Dolenz
If I am to truly become an autonomous woman, then I must take over that role of being my own guardian. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us. -- Jean Paul
I think that someone is watching out for me, God, my guardian angel, I'm not sure who that is, but they really work hard. -- Mattie Stepanek
In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
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. -- Creighton Abrams
St. Joseph was a just man, a tireless worker, the upright guardian of those entrusted to his care. May he always guard, protect and enlighten families. -- Pope John Paul II
Sanctified by their initiatory experiences and furnished with their spirit guardians, the shaman alone among human beings is able to consciously travel into the spiritual worlds as cosmic explorers. -- Hank Wesselman
So valuable to heaven is the dignity of the human soul that every member of the human race has a guardian angel from the moment the person begins to be. -- St. Jerome
I believe every person has a guardian spirit or angel. They assist us in the transition between life and death and they also help us pick our parents before we are born. -- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
With such evidence, as well as the sealed doorway between the two guardian statues of the King, the mystery gradually dawned upon us. We were but in the anterior portion of a tomb. -- Howard Carter
When we find something new at Giza, we announce it to the world. The Sphinx and the Pyramids are world treasures. We are the guardian's of these treasures, but they belong to the world. -- Zahi Hawass
The judiciary must not take on the coloration of whatever may be popular at the moment. We are guardian of rights, and we have to tell people things they often do not like to hear. -- Rose Bird
Mooner was walking around laying his hands on the cars, divining karma. "this is it", he said, standing by a small khaki-colored jeep."this car has protective qualities" You mean like a guardian angel?" I mean, like, it has seatbelts -- Janet Evanovich
Ask any successful person, and most will tell you that they had a person who believed in them... a teacher, a friend, a parent, a guardian, a sister, a grandmother. It only takes one person, and it doesn't really matter who it is. -- Sean Covey
Through laziness and cowardice a large part of mankind, even after nature has freed them from alien guidance, gladly remain immature. It is because of laziness and cowardice that it is so easy for others to usurp the role of guardians. It is so comfortable to be a minor! -- Immanuel Kant
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. -- Robert Winston
When you are praying alone, and your spirit is dejected, and you are wearied and oppressed by your loneliness, remember then, as always, that God the Trinity looks upon you with eyes brighter than the sun; also all the angels, your own Guardian Angel, and all the Saints of God. -- John of Kronstadt
Necessity is a guardian in Nature. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy, -- Mirabeau B. Lamar
Never drive faster than your guardian angel can fly. -- Abubakar Said
I feel like every single person has guardian angels. -- Doreen Virtue
I think I'm more of a guardian angel girl. -- Becca Fitzpatrick
Reason is nothing less than the guardian of love -- Sam Harris
I am the guardian of power, not its owner. -- Vicente Fox
The artist has to be a guardian of the culture. -- Robert Longo
Poetry has been the guardian angel of humanity in all ages. -- Alphonse de Lamartine
Long live impudence. It was my guardian angel in this world. -- Albert Einstein
A man does not always choose what his guardian angel intends. -- Thomas Aquinas

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