Quotes About Protection

Identity is a posture that we steal and assemble as a protective coating, but it's also a ski mask, camouflage and protection from the cold.

Ridicule was a better defense than truth.

A veces la ignorancia es una especie de salvaguarda.

Without law, who will protect the mother and child who are tomorrow's strength? Who will protect the geniuses of the mind, the inventor, the artist who enriches the world but has not the power of money or physical ability to defend himself? Who will protect the wise who are old, and might fall victim to the powerful and foolish? Indeed who will protect the strong from themselves?

What was freedom worth without safety from injustice, violence and hunger? Freedom to do what?

everyone depended upon the goodwill of others, on their skills or their patronage, their friendship or their protection. It was only that some forms of dependence were more obvious than others, not any more real.

You can't fight their battles for them, only give them armor." Who

Sometimes fear is a warning. It's like someone putting a hand on your shoulder and saying Go No Farther.

She protected me. We had the souls of each other. We loved in some realm where the natural and the preternatural meant nothing.

I prayed for it, Andrei. I prayed they wouldn't get you for their filthy catacombs, their dark earthen cells. Well, so my prayer is answered! Go with God, Andrei. Go with God. Go with God!

A firm hand was placed against my chest to steady me and to hold me back.

But you covered yourself with a concealing bulk, didn't you? To hide from whom?

They enclosed me again with all their tenderness, seeking to keep me warm.

His expression was concerned and protective, and I felt such an overwhelming need of him and love for him that I was about to cry. I held it back.

Mozart was always my happy guardian, the Little Genius, I called him

How will you protect the Sacred Core if you have no strength to fight those who oppose you?

Every spellbinder has a signature," I said. "Once I learn to recognize that signature, I become immune. They can't make it happen to me after that." I

We'll get you out, don't cry, you're ours now. We have you.

We mean you no harm. We are scholars. We offer understanding. We offer shelter. We watch and we are always there.

Ah, the marvel of queens. Even in ancient times he had heard talk of queens protecting their kingdoms, while kings go forth to conquer new ones, of queens protecting their power, while kings seek more. And in modern times, he had heard tell of a great queen, Elizabeth of England, who had followed this very path, protecting her great kingdom and its far-flung colonies, but never initiating a war to gain increased power or land.

We have a guardian angel, and who cares if he's a fallen one?

He was human, he was warm and strong and ready to kill to keep her safe. What more could a girl want in a man?

She should feel sick. Horrified, stunned. But the horrible truth was, she felt fine. He killed. He killed to protect her. And some ancient, atavistic streak inside her wanted to preen and purr. She was one sick puppy.

Leave her alone, Killoran. I promised her you meant no ill will. And did she believe you? Not for a moment. Killoran looked back at her. Wise girl, he murmured. But for now, she's safe. I promise to keep my marauding hands off her fair young body. For the time being.