Quotes About Protection

Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way.

The Lord bless thee, and keep thee:The Lord make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee:The Lord lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.

May no portent of evil be attached to the words I say.

Original Poems for Infant Minds My MotherWho ran to help me when I fell,And would some pretty story tell,Or kiss the place to make it wellMy Mother.

The best defense against the atom bomb is not to be there when it goes off.

Habeas corpus [You are to produce the person].

improvisamos un techo para protegernos de los murciélagos que andan por ahí hablando con voz de gente

There is a profound middle-class nostalgia for the days of British protection....

We can only protect liberty by making it relevant to the modern world.

You falsely think that your fears protect you, your beliefs have made you what you are and your attachments make your life exciting and secure. You fail to see that they are actually a screen between you and life's symphony.

Seek her patronage and ask for her intercession before you start out on this way.

To men like that, time was a surfeit, a barrel they watched slowly drain. When really, he thinks, it's a glowing puddle you carry in your hands; you should spend all your energy protecting it. Fighting for it. Working so hard not to spill one single drop.

But books, like people, die. They die in fires or floods or in the mouths of worms or at the whims of tyrants. If they are not safeguarded, they go out of the world. And when a book goes out of the world, the memory dies a second death.

Sometimes the eye of a hurricane is the safest place to be.

When really, he thinks, it's a glowing puddle you carry in your hands; you should spend all your energy protecting it. Fighting for it. Working so hard not to spill one single drop.

That's how he feels right now, he thinks, kneeling beside her, rinsing her hair: as though his love for his daughter will outstrip the limits of his body. The walls could fall away, even the whole city, and the brightness of that feeling would not wane.

Because of the diamond in your coat pocket. Because I left it here to protect you. All it has done is put me in more danger. Then why hasn't the house been hit? Why hasn't it caught fire? It's a rock, Papa. A pebble. There is only luck, bad or good. Chance and physics. Remember? You are alive. I am only alive because I have not yet died.

Does she grieve over his absence? Or has she calcified her feelings, protected herself, as he is learning to do?

I'm scared, Papa." "Keep hold of me.

Malouins send up oaths: Lord God safeguard this

Between 365 million and one billion birds die just from crashing into windows in the United States each year.

Prosperity depends on ferocity. The only things that keep your precious grandmothers in their tea and cookies are the fists at the end of your arms.

That's how it feels right now, he thinks, kneeling beside her, rinsing her hair: as though his love for his daughter will outstrip the limits of his body. The walls could fall away, even the whole city, and the brightness of that feeling would not wane.

It is the obliviousness of our children that saves us.