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Quotes About Guardianship

Create your Gods and they will watch over you!
~ Warren Ellis
See that you don't look down on one of these little ones, because I tell you that in heaven their angels continually view the face of My Father in heaven" (Matthew 18:10).
~ Wayne W. Dyer
For we alone are the keepers of the letters that set us free.
~ Charles Martin
They would catch her. They would make sure she was all right. That's what grown-ups did. They looked after you. They—
~ Charlie Higson
Money is like a child—rarely unaccompanied. When it disappears, look to those who were supposed to be keeping an eye on it while you were at the grocery store. You might also look for someone who has a lot of extra children sitting around, with long, suspicious explanations for how they got there.
~ Lemony Snicket
Figuratively, they escaped from Cout Olaf and their miserable existence. They did not literally escape, because they were still in his house and vulnerable to Olaf's evil in loco parentis ways.
~ Lemony Snicket
Mr. Poe, who led the way, didn't seem to notice the hedges at all, possibly because he was busy coaching the children on how to behave. 'Now, Klaus, don't ask too many questions right away. Violet, what happened to the ribbon in your hair? I thought you looked very distinguished in it. And somebody please make sure Sunny doesn't bite Dr. Montgomery. That wouldn't be a good first impression.
~ Lemony Snicket
The siblings wished that if Mr. Poe were really jealous of them he would attend Prufrock Preparatory School himself, and they could work at the bank.
~ Lemony Snicket
It is not enough in this world to be kindhearted, particularly if you are responsible for keeping children out of danger.
~ Lemony Snicket
I am sorry to say that Mr. Poe had not done a very good job so far, and that the Baudelaires had learned that the only thing they could rely on with Mr. Poe was that he always had a cough.
~ Lemony Snicket
Tapi di dunia ini baik hati saja tidak cukup, apalagi kalau orang harus menjaga anak-anak agar terhindar dari bahaya.
~ Lemony Snicket
Mr. Poe was kindhearted, but it is not enough in this world to be kindhearted, particularly if you are responsible for keeping children out of danger.
~ Lemony Snicket
Poe was kindhearted, but it is not enough in this world to be kindhearted, particularly if you are responsible for keeping children out of danger.
~ Lemony Snicket
Don't you see?' he asked. 'I'm not just the island's facilitator. I'm the island's parent. I keep this library far away from the people under my care, so that they will never be disturbed by the world's terrible secrets.
~ Lemony Snicket
As a brother, a landlord, a master, she considered how many people's happiness were in his guardianship! -- How much of pleasure or pain it was in his power to bestow! -- How much of good or evil must be done by him!
~ Jane Austen
If anything happened to you, I'd be so destroyed they'd have to strap me to a bed and feed me through a tube. After five or six years, I might be capable of taking care of Rex. In the interim, you should assign a guardian.
~ Janet Evanovich
I went out every single night so I was never alone with my stepfather. At 12, I stopped going on holiday with them. The times I was alone with him I always made sure I was all covered up.
~ Christine Keeler
Sarah Byrnes was home with Lemery and safe from her father. I knew i didnt have to protect her anymore now that she is with someone I trust.
~ Chris Crutcher
the ears of the prince. His guardianship over
~ Henryk Sienkiewicz
As the boy entered his teens, abu-Talib began to rely on him more, taking him with him as he went about his business.
~ Lesley Hazleton
We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
~ Jean Cocteau
There's no such thing as a limited victory. You must protect what you have won. You must take is seriously.
~ Jeanette Winterson
We stand guard over works of art, but species representing the work of aeons are stolen from under our noses
~ Aldo Leopold
I was a wife and mother, blameless in moral life, with a deep sense of duty and a proud self-respect; it was while I was this that doubt struck me, and while I was in the guarded circle of the home, with no dream of outside work or outside liberty, that I lost all faith in Christianity.
~ Annie Besant