Quotes About Protection

Houses are cellular walls; they keep our problems from bleeding into everyone else's.

It was nice not having to be the one in control, for a little while. It was nice to be the one who was protected, instead of the one who'd been protecting eveyone else.

Maybe that's what we do to the people we love: take shots in the dark and realize too late that we've wounded the people we are trying to protect.

Everyone has a story; everyone hides his past as a means of self-preservation. Some just do it better, and more thoroughly, than others.

The best way to prevent a heartache was to cushion the coming blow.

Keeping a secret isn't always lying. Sometimes it's the only way to protect the person you love.

I have no idea what Andrew might have done, and I do not ask. She believes that I can fix this, and like always, that's enough to make me think that I can. I'll take care of it,: I say, when what I really mean is: I'll take care of you.

Parenthood was like awakening to find a soap bubble in the cup of your palm, and being told you had to carry it while you parachuted from a dizzying height, climbed a mountain range, battled on the front lines. All you wanted to do was tuck it away, safe from natural disasters and violence and prejudice and sarcasm, but that was not an option. You lived in daily fear of watching it burst, of breaking it yourself. Somehow you knew that if it disappeared, you would, too.

Being a good mother, it seemed to me, meant you ran the risk of losing your child.

When you are pregnant, you can think of nothing but having your own body to yourself again; yet after giving birth you realize that the biggest part of you is now somehow external, subject to all sorts of dangers and disappearance, so you spend the rest of your lifet rying to figure out how to keep her close enough for for comfort.

OSHA's lack of law enforcement has made the USA a dangerous place to work.

Truly we have had enough experience with sufferance and protection which could be revoked at will. Consequently, the only reasonable Course of action is to work for publicly legalized guarantees.

Let go of what you can no longer keep. Protect what's still worth keeping. Believe in love most of all.

It shelters and protects us From a dark or sunny sky And like a tree - it's beauty grows As each day passes by.

May the roof above you never fall in and may you both never fall out.

Fasting is a shield with which a servant protects himself from the fire.

To avoid disappointment, being lied to & cheated on...she puts up a wall to protect herself.

Angry feelings serve as an "early warning system" telling us we're in danger of being injured or controlled.

Being fat isn't so bad.. fat people are harder to kidnap!!

No sensible person ever opens the door of his house without knowing who is knocking.

It's great to earn, but don't leave it behind for someone else to burn.

Guard your heart above all else for it determines the course of your life.

Never give anyone the advantage of seeing you weak. One day they will use it against you.

I've learned the best way to prevent your heart from getting broken, is to act like you don't have one.