Guardian Quotes

• It is hereby earnestly proposed that the USA would be much better off if that big, sprawling, incoherent, shapeless, slobbering civic idiot in the family of American communities, the City of Los Angeles, could be declared incompetent and placed in charge of a guardian like any individual mental defective.

  

  Westbrook Pegler
  • Community
  • Individual
  • Would

• 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
  • Sometimes
  • Spirit
  • Behinds

• The Hudson's Bay Company has always been the guardian angel of the north.

  

  Ernest Thompson Seton
  • Company
  • Guardian

• My Guardian is the Planet of Silence. Soldier Of Death and Rebirth Sailor Saturn! - Hotaru as Sailor Saturn

  

  Naoko Takeuchi
  • Planets
  • Rebirth
  • Saturn

• Because subjects like literature and art history have no obvious material pay-off, they tend to attract those who look askance at capitalist notions of utility. The idea of doing something purely for the delight of it has always rattled the grey-bearded guardians of the state. Sheer pointlessness has always been a deeply subversive affair.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Art
  • Literature
  • Obvious

• The fact that Edward Snowden didn't approach the New York Times hurt a lot. It meant two things. Morally, it meant that somebody with a big story to tell didn't think we were the place to go, and that's painful. And then it also meant that we got beaten on what was arguably the biggest national security story in many, many years. Not only beaten by the Guardian, because he went to the Guardian, but beaten by the Post, because he went to a writer from the Post. We tried to catch up and did some really good stories that I feel good about. But it was really, really, really painful.

  

  Dean Baquet
  • Hurt
  • Security
  • Painful

• As the guardian of our rights, the Supreme Court makes decisions every year which either protect the individual or leave him at the mercy of more powerful forces in our society.

  

  Herb Kohl
  • Powerful
  • Decision
  • Individual

• The Washington Post is and has been the greatest historic competitor of the New York Times. Half of me, though, the unselfish part of me that is just a journalist, is thrilled. I want newspapers to succeed. Let's take the Guardian, which is a new competitor in the digital age. Does it make me nervous that they compete with us and in fact beat us on the Snowden story? Yes. The part of me that's a competitive journalist and wants to fight and play says: bring them on! It's more fun that way.

  

  Dean Baquet
  • Fun
  • Age
  • Succeed

• We, in the New York Times, have not yet figured out how to grow our international readership. We started a website in China, which the Chinese government has blocked, but it has a pretty healthy readership. The Guardian, for instance, has gotten tremendous growth through its website in the US. We have to figure out how to go after readership in different parts of the world.

  

  Dean Baquet
  • World
  • Different
  • Growth

• Today, as chief Of the guardians of the seas Of the land of the dawn, I gaze up with awe At the rising sun!

  

  Isoroku Yamamoto
  • Today
  • Peace
  • Chiefs

• From the cradle to the grave she is subject to the power and control of man. Father, guardian, or husband, one conveys her like some piece of merchandise over to the other.

  

  Ernestine Rose
  • Father
  • Control
  • Grave

• I think the center ground have got to become the people of change again and not the guardians of the status quo. And that is the weakness it comes to in our campaign. You can see it in your politics, you can see it everywhere.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Weakness
  • Campaigns
  • Guardian

• Some part of me hopes for a guardian angel to protect me and other people who need protection.

  

  Ezra Furman
  • Protection
  • Hopes
  • Guardian

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