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Quotes About Protection

The born watchdog patrols his beat once in so often during the night. At all times he must sleep with one ear and one eye alert. By day or by night he must discriminate between the visitor whose presence is permitted and the trespasser whose presence is not. He must know what class of undesirables to scare off with a growl and what class needs stronger measures. He must also know to the inch the boundaries of his own master's land.
~ Albert Payson Terhune
If the whole National Guard of New Jersey comes here, with a truckload of shooting-warrants, they aren't going to get Laddie. I promise you that. I don't quite know how we are going to prevent it. But we're going to. That's a pledge. So you're not to worry.
~ Albert Payson Terhune
We had reached the bathing pavilion. There I checked the bag, together with my watch and money, putting the two last-named articles in a big manila envelope and writing my name across the back. I received in exchange a numbered metal tag on a thick rubber band. I followed Bat Shayne's example of putting this band around my neck, feeling just a little like a licensed dog as I did so.
~ Albert Payson Terhune
Now, as the six rushed in, a silver-and-snow catapult landed among them from nowhere in particular, snarling, snapping, slashing. No longer had Thor any use for the finesse which had been taught to him as part of his education as a herder. His master was down. These grunting devils were pressing in, avidly, to rip him to pieces. It was a moment for stark action.
~ Albert Payson Terhune
If more folks were afraid to keep dogs, there'd be easier pickings for them that make their living by what they can find in folks' houses at night.
~ Albert Payson Terhune
Laund was oblivious to the fivefold punishment the very hint of which had hitherto been enough to send him ki-yi-ing under Danny's bed. He was not fighting for himself, but for the child who was at once his ward and his deity. On himself he was taking the torture that otherwise must have been inflicted on Danny. For perhaps the millionth time in the history of mankind and of dog, the Scriptural adage was fulfilled, and perfect love was casting out fear.
~ Albert Payson Terhune
Lad was not even consoled by the knowledge that he was guarding the slumbrous house. He was not guarding it. He had not the very remotest idea what it meant to be a watchdog. In all his five months he had never learned that there is unfriendliness in the world; or that there is anything to guard a house against.
~ Albert Payson Terhune
O heavenly Father, protect and bless all things that have breath: guard them from all evil and let them sleep in peace.
~ Albert Schweitzer
Let us run into a safe harbor.
~ Alcaeus
Hide me from this battle with words / and put out the furies of my elemental body.
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
sempre Dio: coloro che non possono difendersi da sè, che non hanno la forza, sempre han questo Dio da mettere in campo, che se gli avessero parlato. Cosa pretendete con codesta vostra parola. Di farmi...?
~ Alessandro Manzoni
But a person can be protected or kept safe by his class only up to a point.
~ Alessandro Manzoni
Smith answered immediately, writing at midnight on June 22. "We dare not come," he insisted—three times. "Your Excellency promises protection. Yet, at the same time, you have expressed fears that you could not control
~ Alex Beam
The best protection against attacks from others comes from a few people whose opinions you really care about. The yells of a horde of abusive banshees always fade away when you have the support of a few people that you respect.
~ Alex Ferguson
I couldn't take sides against mu players. I had to find solutions other than castigating them in public. Sometimes I had to fine or punish them, of course, but I could never let it out of the dressing room. I would have felt I had betrayed the one constant principle of my time as a manager: to defend. No, not to defend, but to protect them from outside judgments.
~ Alex Ferguson
Maybe it's a way for you to be that knight in shining armor who comes to the rescue—the one who never came to your rescue as a child." Maggie
~ Alex Kava
It is better to be here ready to protect the peace than to take blind shelter across the sea, rushing to respond only after freedom is lost. We've learned that isolationism never was and never will be an acceptable response to tyrannical governments with an expansionist intent.
~ Alex Kershaw
Rest is not something that the world gives us. It's never been a gift. It's never been something you do when you've finished everything else. If you want rest, you have to take it. You have to resist the lure of busyness, make time for rest, take it seriously, and protect it from a world that is intent on stealing it.
~ Alex Soojung-Kim Pang
A man's home is his wife's castle.
~ Alexander Chase
La maison d'un homme est le château de son épouse.
~ Alexander Chase
A novel, should it survive, protects what a missile can't.
~ Alexander Chee
To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people each individual citizen everywhere enjoying the same national rights, privileges, and protection.
~ Alexander Hamilton
Caution and investigation are a necessary armor against error and imposition.
~ Alexander Hamilton
That the gods never concern themselves with the protection of the innocent, only with the punishment of the guilty.
~ Alexander Kent