Quotes and Sayings About Shields

Every organism requires an environment of friends, partly to shield it from violent changes, and partly to supply it with its wants.
-- Alfred North Whitehead

#Friendship #Want #Shields

Militant mothers hiding in the basement using pots and pans as their shields and their helmets.
-- Alice Cooper

#Family #Mother #Shields

I'm not much of a famous-person friend. I've hung out with Brooke Shields and I don't think I've ever seen that kind of pure face recognition, but I keep a low profile.
-- Ana Gasteyer

#Thinking #Shields #Faces

My only good result in 1997 was marrying Brooke Shields.
-- Andre Agassi

#Tennis #Shields #Results

Do not fear so, here is one who would be a blade at your back. A shield across your breast. Here is kin, here is strength to lean upon, to share as you share in need.
-- Andre Norton

#Would Be #Needs #Shields

What would the Russian Bear and the American Eagle do if they discovered our paradise? Our secrecy is our shield!
-- Andrew Ryan

#Eagles #Paradise #Shields

Life was simple when you were a Shield Bug.
-- Angie Sage

#Simple #Shields #Bugs

Solemnity is the shield of idiots
-- Baron de Montesquieu

#Stupidity #Shields #Idiot

A legitimate democracy cannot act against a terror organization because it is using civilians as a human shield, and therefore it should absorb attacks on its own civilians.
-- Benjamin Netanyahu

#Organization #Democracy #Shields

When you get a poem [in a public place], it happens to you so suddenly that you don't have time to deploy your anti-poetry deflector shields that were installed in high school.
-- Billy Collins

#School #High School #Shields

Perfectionism is a twenty-ton shield that we lug around thinking it will protect us when, in fact, it's the thing that's really preventing us from taking flight.
-- Brené Brown

#Thinking #Twenties #Shields

The guitar was my weapon, my shield to hide behind.
-- Brian May

#Guitar #Weapons #Shields

William," the professor said, softly, "what now is your weapon?"...."Truth," he whispered, his voice rasping. He cleared his throat. "Truth is my sword." ...."And what now is your defense?" Colour returned to Billy's face, and his jaw tightened. His voice surged with emotion. "Faith...faith is my shield.
-- Bryan Davis

#Voice #Weapons #Shields

If you draw your sword against those you sworn to protect, the very ones who trust in your strength, how will you convince them that you are a shield when the dragons come and take them away?
-- Bryan Davis

#Dragons #Shields #Protect

Good Humor is the best shield against the darts of satirical raillery
-- Charles Simmons

#Humor #Shields #Darts

When thing are at it's worse you dig deep and finish your mission or be carried out on your shield.
-- Cung Le

#Mma #Shields #Missions

I think that 'The Shield' was a phenomenal series finale.
-- Damon Lindelof

#Thinking #Shields #Phenomenal

Losing our ignorance can be dangerous because our ignorance is a shield.
-- Dan Simmons

#Ignorance #Shields #Losing

Your humor is your compass and your shield. You can hone it into a weapon or you can pull its strands out to make your very own cotton-candy blanket. You can’t exist on a diet of humor alone, but you can’t exist on a diet without it, either.
-- David Levithan

#Cotton Candy #Weapons #Shields

I've committed myself to serve my constituents in South Shields and I have committed myself to British politics.
-- David Miliband

#Shields #British #Committed

Big egos are big shields for lots of empty space.
-- Diane Black

#Space #Ego #Shields

I'm a huge fan of things like The Wire and The Shield.
-- Donal Logue

#Wire #Fans #Shields

When we were only acquaintances, you let me be myself, but now you're always protecting me... I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult. Can't I be trusted to face the truth but I must get it second-hand through you? A woman's place!
-- E. M. Forster

#Hands #Shields #Faces

I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.
-- E. M. Forster

#Shields #Insult #Ladylike

The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.
-- Frank Herbert

#Progress #Shields #Utopia

I had a great time on The Shield. From working on it I have a totally different view of law enforcement.
-- Glenn Close

#Views #Law #Shields

But when you become a slave to a public persona and don’t feel comfortable without it, it becomes a shield and it shouldn’t come at the expense of your self-worth.
-- Gugu Mbatha-Raw

#Self Worth #Shields #Slave

What is necessary for the pubic realm is to shield it from the private interests which have intruded upon it in the most brutal and aggressive form.
-- Hannah

#Shields #Form #Aggressive

True strength isn’t in killing—or ignoring—your opponent, it’s in having the will to shield those who need your protection.
-- Ilona Andrews

#Needs #Opponents #Shields

Minorities have a right to appeal to the Constitution as a shield against such oppression.
-- James K. Polk

#Minorities #Shields #Constitution