Humans should be the Earth's custodians, not its butchers. Much attention - though not enough - focuses on the existential threat posed by climate change. But humanity's mass destruction of the Earth's wildlife is all too little discussed.

Owen Jones

When I first wrote 'Papa Hemingway,' there were too many people still alive, and the lawyers for Random House didn't want to OK it. But now all that's been filtered away by the passage of all these people. And having the fortune of surviving, I now feel that I am the custodian of what Ernest wanted the world to know about him and these women.

A. E. Hotchner

Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources - and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on in the future.

Alberto Moravia

The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.

Alfred North Whitehead

Not only the Archivist alone but all who work for NARA are designated custodians of America's national memory.

Allen Weinstein

Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.

August Wilson

My mother imparted on me that I must be a good custodian of my father's name and that is what I ask of my children. One should conduct themselves in the correct manner, respect one's elders and do the right thing.

Chris Eubank Sr.

Men and women are custodians of this society, and we both decide what's going to happen for our future. I feel that very, very strongly.

Cillian Murphy

I did grow up poor. My mom managed to get a job as a custodian at our church, and it was really just a favor for her, and my dad's an electrician - just a blue-collar family, and the house was usually falling apart.

Crystal Bowersox

I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence, structure, syntax, these things are driven into us, and my parents, bless them, are great custodians of the English language.

Daniel Day-Lewis

Universities are the custodians not only of the many cultures of man, but of the rational process itself.

Edward Levi

'The Custodian' was my first film, and there were so many lessons to learn in that week. It was really fun, but for me, I look at it as a training film, and I'm not really proud of my work in it.

Essie Davis

Museums are custodians of epiphanies, and these epiphanies enter the central nervous system and deep recesses of the mind.

George Lois

I think when you're working with a character that another writer is acting as - for lack of a better word - custodian of, your obligation as a professional is to not do anything that violates that 'primary' take.

Greg Rucka

Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

We talk about theatre museums filled with old costumes and things. What we also need is a theatre museum of the old routines on videotape. We are only the custodians of those techniques, and they should be preserved.

Jim Dale

I was taught that a lawyer was supposed to be a custodian of the community's legal and ethical sense.

Joe Jamail

It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.

John Kenneth Galbraith

I am privileged to be the heir to huge wealth, and I regard myself as a custodian of that money for the benefit of people who need it more than I do.

John Paul Getty Jr.

As the publisher of FSG and the custodian of its legacy, I have an interested insider's view.

Jonathan Galassi

I believe we should be good custodians of the Earth.

Jonathan Nolan