Quotes About Security

"I look at you and I'm home."

Earlier ages fortified themselves behind the sovereign state, behind protectionism and militarism.

Rock of Ages, cleft for me, let me hide myself in Thee.

To an old man any place that's warm is homeland.

Prosperity's disciples build careful bastions against age and change.

perpetuity in a home is a blanket for the cold years that come with age.

When you lie about your age, the terrorists win.

Throughout the world, terrorists are actively seeking their next recruit. Alarmingly, terrorist organizations are increasingly targeting school-age children as the next generation of terrorists

Well, we certainly need to raise the retirement age. I've told my 19-year-old and my 22-year-old that they're not going to be getting retirement benefits at age 62.

At the age of eight, I discovered that I could write songs. My dad used to take them to the notary and register them so that nobody could steal them from me.

The legacy I want to leave is a child-care system that says that no kid is going to be left alone or left unsafe.

Sociopaths are not afraid of very much, except for physical harm and dying - really primitive, basic kinds of fears. The problem with being alone for a sociopath is boredom.

A great way to be left alone on the subway is to appear to be deep in conversation with a small knife.

It's not living alone if you keep a rifle under the bed.

and sadness clung to mebecause she did not knowhow to be alone.

If you want to go to the mall, you have to take security. But it's always cool. The kids are amazing.

To feel at home in a place, you have to have some prospect of staying there.

An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment.

Then she looked at his eyes and her panic smoothed away. With those eyes watching over her she was never to feel frightened again, not until the very end and that was a long time away. Going into his love was like going into a castle, a thick-walled place. A safe place where no one else could enter. The first feeling of it was so strong that she could only stand quietly and let the warmth wrap her.

the defences where a creek runs

If race or class war divides us into hostile camps, changing political argument into blind hate, one side or the other may overturn the hustings with the rule of the sword. If our economy of freedom fails to distribute wealth as ably as it has created it, the road to dictatorship will be open to any man who can persuasively promise security to all; and a martial government, under whatever charming phrases, will engulf the democratic world.

Until our states become members of a large and effectively protective group they will continue to act like individuals and families in the hunting stage.

Radicalism is a luxury of stability; we may dare to change things only when things lie steady under our hands.

Pagan professors of philosophy, after the death of Hypatia, sought security in Athens, where non-Christian teaching was still relatively and innocuously free. Student life was still lively there, and enjoyed most of the consolations of higher education—fraternities, distinctive garbs, hazing, and a general hilarity.