Quotes About Protection

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

There's something to be said for being someone's safety zone. Even if, sometimes, it means a kick or a punch or a rush of angry words.

He knows what will upset me before it even happens and like a superhero, bends the track of the runaway train before it strikes.

The reason you hold on to someone too tightly isn't always to protect them—sometimes it's to protect yourself.

Jack could feel the fissures beginning even now, the hard shell he'd promised to keep in place so that no one, ever, would get close enough to hurt him again.

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

There are two reasons to not tell the truth -- because lying will get you what you want, and because lying will keep someone from getting hurt.

Amnesia was one way for the mind to protect itself from reliving something that would otherwise break you apart.

You could lose track of someone when you blinked, Alex realized. She vowed not to let that happen to her and her daughter. Because when it came down to it, being a judge didn't matter nearly as much as being a mother. When Alex's clerk had told her the news about the World Trade Center, her first thought had not been for her constituents . . . only for Josie.

In the wild, a female elephant would not separate from her male calf until he was ten to thirteen years old.

On the other side of the curtain, two separate wars were being fought. One was to save the life of a women who'd been beaten to near death by her husband. The other was to allow her child to have any kind of a life at all.

There it was, shiny and silver, pinned to the requisite position on his chest-a shield that covered his heart but had not been able to protect it.

He taught me that if a body is easily crushed, it develops a weapon to prevent that from happening.

Your name, Minka. Short for Wilhelmina. You know what it means? Chosen protection.

All mothers worry, but Black mothers, we have to worry a little bit more. "Even walking can be dangerous. Just being can be dangerous, if you are in the wrong place at the wrong time.

If you take away anything from this novel, I hope it is an awareness of the cognitive and emotional intelligence of these beautiful animals—and the understanding that it is up to all of us to protect them.

Chosen protection.

Better safe than sorry!

I mean, when the world comes for your children, with the knives out, it's your job to stand in the way.

If a member of the military can be killed and left in the road, in front of his own house, then who will be safe in this country?

Hallowed be thy name, oh Lord -- and shotgun do your stuff

season our cast iron cookware to keep it from rusting and to prevent food from sticking to it. To do this, coat the pan with a thin layer of oil and then heat it. The oil will react with oxygen to form a tough, smooth, impervious layer.

Imagine the protective effects of eating adequate amounts of the top three super food groups together—cruciferous greens, mushrooms, and onions—almost daily.

The insight provided by the research is simple: As long as Americans continue to practice nutritional indifference, they will suffer the consequences. Don't expect any significant protection from marginal changes.