The Women of Our World are like Mother Earth. They don't just give life to the next generation but also to Hope. The Women of Our World are to be loved, respected and protected.

For the first time, he looked at her, and she wasn't a stranger, she was Clary— his friend. His family. The girl he'd sworn always to protect. The girl he loved as fiercely as he loved himself.

And being a husband made me helpless, because I had somebody to protect (somebody a little high-strung, who had a tough time emotionally with things like the lights going out indefinitely).

You ask me, of all people, how to protect a boy in terrible danger? We cannot protect the young from harm. Pain must and will come.

I remembered a definition of chivalry I'd heard once: a man protecting a woman against every man but himself.

If any honor existed in war, it was in fighting to protect others from harm

Maybe that's what we do to the people we love: take shots in the dark and realize too late that we've wounded the people we are trying to protect.

The thing about lying to your parents is, you have to do it to protect them.It's for their own good.

Most people are like sheep. Nice, harmless creatures who want nothing more than to be left alone so they can graze. But then of course there are wolves. Who want nothing more than to eat the sheep.But there's a third kind of person. The sheepdog. Sheepdogs have fangs like wolves. But their instinct isn't predation. It's protection. All they want, what they live for, is to protect the flock.

If we protect the —underhand' [those working under us], then the —boss' will protect us. If we constantly reprimand the —underhand', then the boss will constantly reprimand us.