Protective Instincts Quotes

Every act of motherhood contains a dual intent, as the mother holds the child close and prepares it to move way from her, as she supports the child and stands it firmly on its own feet, and as she guards it against danger and sends it out across the yard, down by the stream, and across the traffic-crowded highway. Unless a mother can do both - gather her child close and turn her child out toward the world - she will fail in her purpose.

They're not the sharpest people - babies. So, you must be everything to them.

I have a 20-year-old son, I have a 12-year-old son and I'm so afraid for them.

He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself

I'm more attracted to a stronger man rather than a feminine man. Someone who would just throw me down and take control. I love feeling helpless. I definitely like a man who is aggressive and confident.

Motherhood is always an act of courage.

If I feel my child is being deprived of anything that could affect her progress as a person, then I become extremely neurotic and douse the situation with as much help as humanly possible.

Women, by nature, are a certain way; they think a certain way. Women are web thinkers. We think wide... Why? Because we have children. Why? Because we were born as women to have children and to be able to take care of them. We do so many things at once.

My mom is fully supportive of me, and she's just like every other mother.

Lord Help the Mister that comes between Me and My Sister.

If it's your child, it's different. You don't care about those things. It's so minor. You become a parent and nothing else really matters.

For love, thou know'st, is full of jealousy

I'm known as a strange, aloof kind of man. But all I'm doing is trying to protect myself and my work.

Once you lose somebody so close to you, you become very overprotective.

I was a mother's boy.

I realized that anyone who dared to hurt me would suffer his full wrath, and Walt wasn’t going to hold him back.

You don't want anybody walking into your house and taking a Gatorade out of your refrigerator, you've got to get in there and protect it.

Good mothers are underrated, just like good defense.

Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.

The reason why I have survived as long as I have survived is what my friends, comrades and supporters thought was an extraordinarily cautious approach.

'Monsters,' everybody has the thought of monsters in your closet as a kid, and more importantly, the idea of becoming a parent. We're always kind of looking for those emotional nuggets. They're always at the heart of the story.

[A]lways keep a-hold of Nurse For fear of finding something worse

My only thought was to keep him away from Annabeth.

I was a mama's boy.

Me and my older brother were taken from my mother at the same time so we were pretty tight.