Protection Quotes

I have been through the OSHA system twice and I can confirm that I did not have the right to a safe workplace or whistle-blower protection on either occasion.

~ Steven Magee

Jehowah-Jireh is my provider, redeemer and defender.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Sydney, look at me.' He rested his hands on the car roof and leaned in. 'No one is going to hurt you. Do you know why?' She shook her head, and Victor smiled. 'Because I'll hurt them first.

~ V.e. Schwab

The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

~ Maya Angelou

olivia reminds me of a bird sometimes, how her feathers get all ruffled when she's mad. and when she's fragile like this, she's a little lost bird looking for its nest.

~ R.j. Palacio

He will protect me if it is his will. It is not up to me whether I live or die. Either way, Heaven is what'll wait for me - the light at the end of the tunnel.

~ K. Weikel

Youth is no protection; in the end, life scars us all.

~ C.w. Gortner

No man can protect you like your father, No women can love you like your mother.

~ Pradeepa Pandiyan

Who was there to guard youth from pain and death - youth who could not, who had never been able to, guard itself? Did they know too little? Or was it that they knew too much, and therefore thought they knew it all?

~ Agatha Christie

A photograph of a disposable diaper floating in the arctic miles away from human habitat fueled my daily determination to save at least one disposable diaper from being used and created. One cloth diaper after another, days accumulated into years and now our next child is using the cloth diapers we bought for our firstborn.

~ Gloria Ng

SISTER. I CAN'T TELL YOU TO BE HAPPY. BEING UNHAPPY IS HONESTLY QUITE EASY. BEING HAPPY, ON THE OTHER HAND IS FAR MORE DIFFICULT. THAT'S WHY. LIVE. LIVE. THAT ONE WORD IS ALL I CAN SAY. EVEN IT FEELS LIKE PAIN TRIES TO REND YOUR HEART ASUNDER. EVEN IF SUFFERING THREATENS TO TWIST YOUR SMILE.LIVE. THAT IS MY PRAYER. MY WISH.HINAMI

~ Sui Ishida

The aquatic environment must be safeguarded by men. God created mankind to care for the environment and all the living resources.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Security is a double-edged sword: While a fence sure protects the fenced, it also imprisons the protected.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The guarantee of safety in a battering relationship can never be based upon a promise from the perpetrator, no matter how heartfelt. Rather, it must be based upon the self-protective capability of the victim. Until the victim has developed a detailed and realistic contingency plan and has demonstrated her ability to carry it out, she remains in danger of repeated abuse.

~ Judith Lewis Herman

Be an active bystander because sooner or later you or someone you love could be a victim too.

~ Shahla Khan

Not one person on earth is immune to crime and trauma.

~ Shahla Khan

He'd been a fool, he saw that now. How could he have thought, even for a minute, that they'd be safe out here in the suburbs? The world was violent, rotten, corrupt, seething with hatred and perversion, and there was no escaping it. Everything you worked for, everything you loved, had to be locked up as if you were in a castle under siege.

~ T.c. Boyle

Life is so complete that even when we are knocked on our backs, we have the best view of the stars.

~ Laura Teresa Marquez

Like any man, he had no real protection from an unsolicited kiss from a pretty woman, even one he had just murdered.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

Mothers cowered over their small children, defenceless as their backs blossomed with red lines or swords were sunk into their flesh to reach the young ones they hid.

~ Osman Welela

You must firmly, absolutely and ruthlessly protect your safety and sanity.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Corrupt utility companies require a corrupt legal system to protect them from their own sickened workers and the masses.

~ Steven Magee

She tugged the sleeves down over her hands, stretching the fabric until the seams reached her fingernails. Then she locked her fingers around them to ensure they stayed down.Veda fought the urge to rip those sleeves from Coco’s grip and force her to wear them appropriately, or at the very least roll them up so she wouldn’t be tempted to yank at them. She could remember a time when she’d had the same habit, back in middle school. As if hiding her hands behind a thin piece of fabric would protect her from the world.

~ Trevion Burns

You believe me, don’t you? You really do. Why do you believe me? Did Anechka do something to you? Now I owe you; and I may look little, but I know how to fight. I learned by fighting with Hargis. I’ll kick her ass if she hurts you, Lane; just tell me—what did she do? -- Blayne Giano O'hicidhe

~ Wynter Wilkins

Pretend that you're a clever shepherd girl, and you're just dressed up in pretty clothes, and you're trying to make everybody believe that you're a spoiled, empty-headed little princess. So no one guesses that under your clothes you're a brave shepherd girl who climbs trees and chases away wolves with your staff.

~ Johanna Sinisalo

Of all the Fairy strangeness she had known, this seemed suddenly both the strangest and least strange of all. How she would have liked to be looked after like that, cared for and watched over. And yet at the same time, she understood the Whelk, and wished she could grow big enough to hold on to everyone she loved at once. To keep them safe and with her always and know their secret needs well enough to answer them.

~ Catherynne M. Valente

The mighty Mahmúd, Allah-breathing Lord,That all the misbelieving and black HordeOf Fears and Sorrows that infest the SoulScatters before him with his whirlwind Sword.

~ Omar Khayyám

Protect the ears of your heart, rather than being drawn in each day like the fading tides that dance daily with the moon.

~ Eric Samuel Timm

Protecting the weak is the whole fucking basis for civilization. If you're not protecting the weak, you're not civilized. You're fucking animals.

~ Robert Kirkman

More often than not, what animals require our protection from is not hurricanes or fires, but abuse at the hands of other people.

~ Julie Klam

God gave man the authority to rule and protect all the animals in the aquatic ecosystems.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Western governments use thermal heating standards for public protection from the damaging effects of wireless radio frequency (RF) radiation. Eastern governments use biological standards that are much lower due to the extensive long term radiation damage that has been seen to occur in humans at the western thermal heating standard.

~ Steven Magee

I'm like my cat. I run around in circles in my apartment, because the big bad outside is just too big. And scary. And outside. How do stray cats deal with all the stress of having no protection from all the air that’s going on around there, without anyone to guide and control it into timidity?

~ Will Advise

We live beneath many layers. Some are for our protection, and some are for our control.

~ Russell Eric Dobda

An encounter with God demands a response. An encounter with Satan demands your God's response.

~ Shannon L. Alder

The blessing hands of Christ are like a roof that protects us. But at the same time, they are a gesture of opening up, tearing the world open so that heaven my enter in, may become present within it.

~ Pope Benedict Xvi

I have worked too damn hard encasing that beating life force into a steel box.

~ Alex Rosa

Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you still had your mother or father at your back, you’d be okay.

~ Jojo Moyes

These are open secrets, so to speak. Of the kind we dare not articulate, for fear of wounding those close to us.

~ Joyce Carol Oates

A divine power delivers us from every danger.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita