Quotes About Safety

We have to learn to remind the other parents who think we're being careless when we loosen our grip that we are actually trying to teach our children how to get along in the world, and that we believe this is our job. A child who can fend for himself is a lot safer than one forever coddled, because the coddled child will not have Mom or Dad around all the time, even though they act as if he will.

But our idea is that the wolves should be fed and the sheep kept safe.

I called Kim's house the moment I got home. "I've got your necklace, I told her. Kim was thrilled. Mila, on the other hand, was not. She didn't understand why I didn't return to Kim's house. Now I have to walk home alone, Mila complained. No! Don't, I warned her. Call your father. Get a ride. But do not—I repeat, DO NOT—walk home alone. It's too dangerous.

you're going to have a wreck in a truck and someone comes along and offers you a ride in a truck, then do not accept it.

My mother, for instance, thought-or rather, knew-that it was dangerous to drive an automobile without gasoline: it fried the valves, or something. 'Now don't you dare drive all over town without gasoline!' she would say to us when we started off (31).

Cross the river in a crowd and the crocodile won't eat you. ~ African Proverb

An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done

each found her greatest safety in silence…

If I was wrong in yielding to persuasion once, remember that it was to persuasion exerted on the side of safety, not of risk

It is a most repulsive quality, indeed,' said he. 'Oftentimes very convenient, no doubt, but never pleasing. There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.' 'Not till the reserve ceases towards oneself; and then the attraction may be the greater.

You should have distinguished,' replied Anne. 'You should not have suspected me now; the case so different, and my age so different. If I was wrong in yielding to persuasion once, remember that it was to persuasion exerted on the side of safety, not of risk. When I yielded, I thought it was to duty; but no duty could be called in aid here.

it was a misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely.

There is so much of gratitude or vanity in almost every attachment, that it is not safe to leave any to itself.

it was the misfortune of poetry to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely;

Every thing was safe enough and she smiled over the many anxious feelings she had wasted on the subject.

He took me to visit the safe house he had created for young people who were affected by drugs, alcohol, and violence in their homes.

Fantasies are absolutely safe, as long as you never try to make them a reality.

She had married him because she felt sage, because she'd had enough pain to last her a lifetime, and because although he had many faults, faults she was aware of before she married him, she knew he wouldn't hurt her. She knew because there was no passion, and the only time she had felt passion, it had come with a price.

She can't explain why she is choked up. She isn't entirely sure, other than the sweetness of Patrick's familiarity, an aching nostalgia for her youth, a reminder of all that is good, and solid, and stable. All that she once had. All that she has lost. Patrick has grown into a big man. Solid. Imposing. His embrace is all-enveloping, tight, stable. Like being held by a bear. Safe, she thinks. I am safe. And almost immediately after: I have come home.

The bedrock attribute of a successful city district is that a person must feel personally safe and secure on the street among all these strangers.

Second, there must be eyes upon the street, eyes belonging to those we might call the natural proprietors of the street. The buildings on a street equipped to handle strangers and to insure the safety of both residents and strangers, must be oriented to the street. They cannot turn their backs or blank sides on it and leave it blind.

Antras b?das yra sl?ptis transporto priemon?se. Taip daroma stambi?j? gyv?n? rezervatuose Afrikoje, kur turistai ?sp?jami nieku gyvu neišlipti iš mašin?, kol nepasieks viešbu?io. Taip pat elgiamasi ir Los Andžele.

The safety of the street works best, most casually, and with least frequent taint of hostility or suspicion precisely where people are using and most enjoying the city streets voluntarily and are least conscious, normally, that they are policing.

Do not touch her!