Toward Quotes

America is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and frequently punitive toward its children.

I'm hard on myself, so I'm working on shifting perspective toward self-acceptance, with all my flaws and weaknesses.

I don't think things are moving toward an omega point; I think they're moving toward more diversity.

Wherever the citizen becomes indifferent to his fellows, so will the husband be to his wife, and the father of a family toward the members of his household.

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

You never make all things for all people and can't always pander to the broadest denominator. I keep an eye toward doing the themes that interest me. Do they move me? Interest me? Make me think? When I run across something that is provocative in an unsettling way, it appeals to me.

An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.

Your goal should be to pay off your credit card bills in full at the end of each month and set aside money toward your emergency savings.

If you wish to strengthen your confidence in God still more, often recall the loving way in which He has acted toward you, and how mercifully He has tried to bring you out of your sinful life, to break your attachment to the things of earth and draw you to His love.

We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.

Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure.

If I did not have for him the warm affection a son feels toward a less austere and preoccupied father, I at least had an immense respect for him, and a great admiration.

There are certain people within the new government who have a slightly disturbing tendency toward authoritarianism, but there are so many checks and balances that in that way their noises are just noises.

The abortion license has not brought freedom and security to women. Rather, it has ushered in a new era of irresponsibility toward women and children, one that now begins before birth.

It was not till toward the end of the thirteenth century that the prose romances began to appear.

Such problems are not solved in one day but there is a great step toward peace and security in the region.

Get people back into the kitchen and combat the trend toward processed food and fast food.

The Muslims refuse our culture and try to impose their culture on us. I reject them, and this is not only my duty toward my culture-it is toward my values, my principles, my civilization.

If we do not change our negative habits toward climate change, we can count on worldwide disruptions in food production, resulting in mass migration, refugee crises and increased conflict over scarce natural resources like water and farm land. This is a recipe for major security problems.

A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer.

I can't think of anything specific growing up that pointed me toward NASA at all. I was interested in the Moon landings just about the same as everyone else of my generation. But I never really thought about being an astronaut or working in space myself.

Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.

As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less, Who goes to bed with whom.

I think we do better as a country when we go step by step toward a goal, and the goal in this case should be reducing health care costs.

Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward others.

It so happened that my goals kind of matched my career progression toward becoming an astronaut.

A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.

Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining.

One of our theories is that one can offset this excessive compulsion toward the spectacular with a return to simplicity.

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.