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Quotes About Protection

As the cubs slept, Peggy licked their burnt-orange coats clean and watched over them diligently. The way she looked at them as they slept, you knew she would do anything to protect them. Even with only one good paw. Even if it meant she would have to sacrifice her own life to keep them safe. Witnessing that kind of unconditional love was a miracle of nature. Moments like those are what made me want to become a vet. Secretly
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Mentre picchiavo quel ragazzo, in realtà avrei voluto piantare una pallottola tra gli occhi di ogni panda in pericolo che si rifiuta di scopare per salvare la propria specie e ogni balena o delfino che molla tutto e va a spiaggiarsi.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
At home, I'm too scared to look in the fridge. Picture dozens of little plastic sandwich bags labeled with cities like Las Vegas and Chicago and Milwaukee where Tyler had to make good his threats to protect chapters of fight club. Inside each bag would be a pair of messy tidbits, frozen solid
~ Chuck Palahniuk
You know, the condom is the glass slipper of our generation. You slip it on when you meet a stranger. You dance all night, then you throw it away. The condom, I mean. Not thestranger.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
ROGER-ROGER. NONE SHALL HARM HER OR THEY WILL BE CONVERTED TO A PLEASING BLOOD MIST.
~ Chuck Wendig
May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house. —George Carlin
~ Chuck Wendig
He must protect the lives and interests of the people, appeal to his fellow citizens' patriotic interests, and, in general, set the welfare of the community above his own
~ Cicero, Marcus Tullius
The softest hearts always have the toughest shields.
~ Claire Cross
Death and his zealous minions—dread, despair, disease—can find you anywhere at all, and the armor plate of youth will no longer protect you.
~ Claire Messud
Nobody can know ... just how heavy a burden trying to protect another human being can be. I was still a child. I couldn't have understood the real meaning of my promise.
~ CLAMP
Listen, child. If you knew that the most precious thing to you…was something that would bring tragedy, what would you do?" "I'd protect it. I'd hold onto it tight and protect it as long as I was alive." "Then be strong for the thing most precious to you. Only then can you realize your destiny.
~ CLAMP
For now, they had simpler concerns. Keeping the children from the roofs at night, the bereaved from crying out too loud, the young in summer from falling in love with the human.
~ Clive Barker
No sword shall touch you. Unless it be mine." — Anonymous, lover's oath
~ Clive Barker
Black hair fell past his neck but just short of the shoulders. His head was protected by a stained Mexican sombrero.
~ Clive Cussler
Rejection is Spirit's protection. What is for you will not go past you.
~ Collette Baron-Reid
Hard work was a fundamental virtue, for hard work didn't allow time for marches or sit-ins. Elwood would not make a commotion of himself by messing with that movie-theater nonsense, she said. "You have made an agreement with Mr. Marconi to work in his store after school. If your boss can't depend on you, you won't be able to keep a job." Duty might protect him, as it had protected her.
~ Colson Whitehead
At a certain point he learned the smarter play was to avoid the things that brought you low.
~ Colson Whitehead
By making a circle of themselves that separated the human spirits within from the degradation without. Noble
~ Colson Whitehead
They were exiles, but Hob provided a type of protection once they settled in. By playing up their strangeness, the way a slave simpered and acted childlike to escape a beating, they evaded the entanglements of the quarter. The walls of Hob made a fortress some nights, rescuing them from the feuds and conspiracies. White men eat you up, but sometimes colored folk eat you up, too. She
~ Colson Whitehead
By making a circle of themselves that separated the human spirits within from the degradation without.
~ Colson Whitehead
As before, home was a beloved barricade. When school, work, the many-headed beast of strangers and villains comprising the world threatened to destroy, home remained, family remained, and the locks would hold, the lullabies would ward off all bogeymen. He was trapped in this house and he couldn't think of where else he'd rather be.
~ Colson Whitehead
A man should have a safe big enough to hold his secrets. Bigger even, so you have room to grow
~ Colson Whitehead
It is safe in here in the eye of the storm.
~ Colson Whitehead
The only thing you need to know about war, son, is: Don't go.
~ Colum McCann