Quotes About Guardianship

Watch over Honoria, will you? See that she doesn't marry an idiot.

A crow may put on human shape or crow shape, but we remain crows," he replied firmly. "Hawks, too, are the same, whether they are born in human nests or hawk ones. The nestlings must always be protected. Since you have chosen to protect these, I and mine will protect you.

For starters, you're the only one who can hear or see me. Like I said, you're my only concern. I won't reveal myself to anyone else.

I would never hurt you," she said. "I can keep you safe, but to do so, I need your permission. Let me protect you.

He would ask nothing else from life if he would be allowed to protect and cherish her for the rest of his.

the racial divides in the United States will not be overcome until lynchings of all kinds are as painful to nonblacks as they are to blacks, until each of us become guardians of the sufferings history has bequeathed us.

They would do whatever it takes to keep their child safe.", FADE by Kailin Gow

Girls have white wings. The wings with which to protect their loved ones. I'm going to embrace you with those wings.

Adults always underestimate kids. They get all protective because they think we're babies.

Men protect things they find important," Galladon said with a shrug. "If you object, you shouldn't have made yourself so irreplaceable.Kolo?" -Brandon Sanderson (Elantris)

You can't be in Bridge Four. We're bodyguards for your own family. What are you going to do? Guard yourself?

Remembering the fallen was important, but working to protect the living was more so.

Sólo después de que florezca el roble, que es el último en primavera, despierta el fresno. Me lo imagino como el pastor de los demás árboles, vigilando que las hojas de todos estén verdes antes de florecer él.

We should treat our minds, that is, ourselves, as innocent and ingenuous children, whose guardians we are, and be careful what objects and what subjects we thrust on their attention. Read not the Times. Read the Eternities.. Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

If I were to ask any parent, 'Do you love your kid?' the answer would unequivocally be, 'Yes.' If I went on to ask, 'What would you do to protect your kid from harm's way?' any rational parent would answer without skipping a beat, 'Anything.'

In Saudi Arabia - recognized as one of the worst violators of women's rights - women outnumber men on university campuses and yet are treated like minors who need a male guardian's permission to do the most basic things.

There is no such thing as a carefree childhood, only a childhood that shifts the burden of care onto someone else. [Mom] is that someone else.

I have no neighbors. I live in a small town where everybody is very protective of me.

Actions that sometimes seem mean aren't. Rather they are done by the ones we love in order to protect us without our knowing it. (Acheron)

It occurred to her that the best thing to do was to go back home and wait for the two deputies to return and hand the boy over to them.

Upstairs, in what had been until then the cash office, Young Sam slept peacefully in a makeshift bed. One day, Vimes hoped, he would be able to tell him that on one special night he'd been guarded by four troll watchmen. They'd been off duty but volunteered to come in for this, and were just itching for some dwarfs to try anything. Sam hoped the boy would be impressed; the most other kids could hope for was angels.

My girl mates are my minders. They stop people kissing me in clubs.

But you were Mine. My child. And I would not give you up.

And if I order you to stay?" I asked, after a few moments. Pritkin didn't say anything. I looked up but I couldn't see him very well. He'd leaned forward, out of the sign's bloody light, and only a little filtered in from the lounge. But when he finally answered, his voice was calm. "I would stay. And protect you as best I can.