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Quotes About Guardianship

I feel very responsible for my brother, and I try and protect him every chance I get.
~ Charlie Tahan
It's very different to have this kid that I'm truly responsible for.
~ Laura Lippman
A child may not be subjected to physical punishment or other injurious or humiliating treatment. PARENTHOOD AND GUARDIANSHIP CODE, SWEDEN 1979
~ Philip Greven
The dog lives here, Pete. You're just visiting.
~ Marge Schott
Man is not the lord of beings. Man is the shepherd of Being.
~ Martin Heidegger
Animals are on earth to protect mankind. When you gather a bunch of them together like this, you create a safe haven. Nothing can touch you here.
~ Jonathan Carroll
Unless this boy is claimed by the one who gave him to me, I'll die rather than let anyone else take him away.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
The U.S. system of court-appointed guardians originally was intended to protect the vulnerable elderly and incapacitated, but in some cases, it has become a money-making scheme for a network of unscrupulous lawyers, judges and care providers, who sell the assets of their charges and control their lives without their consent.
~ Miranda Devine
People wanted to make products based on our child's name, and you don't want anybody trying to benefit off your baby's name.
~ Jay-Z
my aunt Neva was the guardian and gardener of the metaphors that became me. She saw to it that I was fed all the best fairy tales, poetry, cinema, and theater, so that I was continually in a fever about life and eager to write it all down.
~ Ray Bradbury
We heard bandits return several nights after that, but they never again entered the house. It wasn't until after the war that I learned why. I had suspected the Jaffray's gardener; he was Boegis, and he knew the layout of the house. When I asked him why they had never entered the house again, he answered incredulously, "Because of those people you had there - those people in white who stood about the house." The Lord had put His angels around us. He had delivered.
~ Darlene Deibler Rose
Adopting a pet is like taking the responsibility of a baby.
~ Farah Khan
I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
The cardinal virtue of a teacher (is) to protect the pupil from his own influence
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have to make it my job to be careful with my family.
~ Liam Neeson
Children are not in a position to assess risk and safety; it must be done for them, and it must be done carefully.
~ Siri Hustvedt
When it comes to the safety of our children, we need to take an abundance of caution.
~ Ned Lamont
People can be incredibly proprietary about Superman. They think that the character belongs to them.
~ Elvis Mitchell
The random, the unscreened, allows you to find what you don't know you are looking for, and you don't know a place until it surprises you. Walking is one way of maintaining a bulwark against this erosion of the mind, the body, the landscape, and the city, and every walker is a guard on patrol to protect ineffable.
~ Rebecca Solnit
The girl is not yours, or mine, or anyone's. But for now, she travels under my protection, and let him who lays a hand on her answer to me.
~ Juliet Marillier
He did not smile. 'We are the keepers of the world's greatest treasures. Does that mean nothing to you?' My children are my greatest treasures,' she said. 'Stone no matter how old, means nothing to me when compared to their welfare.
~ Karen Essex
The only reason my daughter has not come home is because someone is keeping her." Keeping her.
~ Karin Slaughter
If history remembers me at all, in any way, I hope it will be as a man who loved the Land of Israel and watched over it in every way he could, all his life.
~ Yitzhak Shamir
The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator. Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.
~ Alan Paton