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Quotes About Protection

The only reason my daughter has not come home is because someone is keeping her." Keeping her.
~ Karin Slaughter
Helen didn't hold back. "I told your father that Paul was like a hermit crab. They're scavengers. They don't have the ability to make their own shells, so they cast around until they find abandoned shells, and then they move in.
~ Karin Slaughter
The only time you were safe was when you were dead.
~ Kate Atkinson
No woman was ever truly safe. It didn't matter if you were as tough as Sigourney Weaver in Alien Resurrection or Linda Hamilton in Terminator 2 because wherever you went there were men.
~ Kate Atkinson
She remembered holding Pamela's babies – remembered Teddy and Jimmy, too – how overwhelming the feelings of love and terror, the desperate desire to protect. How much stronger would those feelings be if it were her own child? Perhaps too strong to bear. Over
~ Kate Atkinson
What can that man fear who takes care to please a Being that is able to crush all his adversaries?
~ Joseph Addison
John Henry Lloyd is the man I gave the credit to for polishing my skills. He taught me how to play third base and how to protect myself. John taught me more baseball than anyone else.
~ Judy Johnson
The beautiful are never desolate; But some one alway loves them--God or man. If man abandons, God himself takes them.
~ Philip James Bailey
Men are expendable; women and children are not. A tribe or a nation can lose a high percentage of its men and still pick up the pieces and go on ... as long as the women and children are saved.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Probably the last man who knew how it worked had been tortured to death years before. Or as soon as it was installed. Killing the creator was a traditional method of patent-protection.
~ Terry Pratchett
Why do you wear a mask and hood?" I think everybody will in the near future," was the man in black's reply. "They're terribly comfortable.
~ William Goldman
Fear is a cloak which old men huddle about their love, as if to keep it warm.
~ William Wordsworth
There ought to be a man with a hammer behind the door of every happy man.
~ Anton Chekhov
All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws
~ Voltaire
The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
A man's head is his castle.
~ Joseph Heller
A sheep in the midst of wolves is safe compared with the Christian in the midst of ungodly men.
~ Charles Spurgeon
There is a dog in every man.
~ Linda Hamilton
A good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and his affairs are not neglected by the gods.
~ Plato
I know it's hard for you to trust me. If I ever find the man who did this to you, who made you so frightened, I'll kill him with my bare hands. But you can trust me.
~ Juliet Marillier
The best protection against rape, stalking, and domestic violence is to raise men who both understand that women are different, and would never dare take advantage of this difference.
~ Wendy Shalit
Naught can deform the human race Like to the armor's iron brace.
~ William Blake
He was being about as protective as a can-opener.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night
Our men and women in uniform deserve the best intelligence possible to help them protect America.
~ Chris Cannon