Quotes about Protection
So boasting of her capacity to surround and protect, there was scarcely a shell of herself left for her to know herself by; all was so lavished and spent; and James, as he stood stiff between her knees, felt her rise in a rosy-flowered fruit tree laid with leaves and dancing boughs into which the beak of brass, the arid scimitar of his father, the egotistical man, plunged and smote, demanding sympathy.
— Virginia Woolf
Father, I leave them in your hands, for mine are far too small and weak. You are God, and I thank you.
— Lauraine Snelling
God tempers the wind, said Maria, to the shorn lamb.
— Laurence Sterne
Even the blind men's dogs appeared to know him; and when they saw him coming on, would tug their owners into doorways and up courts; and then would wag their tails as though they said, 'No eye at all is better than an evil eye, dark master!
— Charles Dickens
I wished that I had some other guardian of minor abilities.
— Charles Dickens
Through all my punishments, disgraces, fasts, and vigils, and other penitential performances, I had nursed this assurance; and to my communing so much with it, in a solitary and unprotected way, I in great part refer the fact that I was morally timid and very sensitive.
— Charles Dickens
If you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England - you couldn't have a person who would be more protective than my mother was for me. Which meant really that I could dare to do all sorts of things.
— Maya Angelou
At the heart of mature masculinity is a sense of benevolent responsibility to lead, provide for, and protect women in ways appropriate to man's differing relationships.
— John Piper
I've pushed several women in front of violent situations. My rule is save myself first.
— Kevin Hart
If what passed as nonviolence does not enable people to protect the honour of women, or if it does not enable women to protect their own honour, it is not nonviolence.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Fortify your mind, bullet proof your heart, strengthen your soul.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
When the storm comes it is your soulmate who pulls out the umbrella and shelters you until the rainbow comes.
— Matshona Dhliwayo