#protect

If I could really love, I would take away these tubes dripping lipids and glucose into your blood. I would liquefy the things you love and flood them through your veins: our sleeping dogs' rhythmic breathing, huge orange trumpets of the amaryllis we thought would never bloom, the crunch of the gravel road coming home. If I could really love, I would climb onto your narrow back and wrap myself around, guarding like a ladybug, or Achilles' mighty shield. ↗

— Laurie Cooper

#life #protection #death

A warm feeling comforted the boy, as if a blanket were wrapping its soft layers around his heart and nuzzling him snuggly. Gavin loved his mother, and he would be forever grateful to his father for protecting her. The whole mystery behind it made him itch with curiosity, however. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#curiosity #father #gratitude #love #mother

With this realization, came a growing need for men and women willing to take up arms in an effort to protect our American way of life and the freedoms so many of our ancestors died to entrench. ↗

— Jim Walsh

#american way #ancestors #arms #came #died

We must do more to protect our neighborhoods and give integrity to our community plans. ↗

— Alan Autry

#give #integrity #more #must #neighborhoods

Our flag honors those who have fought to protect it, and is a reminder of the sacrifice of our nation's founders and heroes. As the ultimate icon of America's storied history, the Stars and Stripes represents the very best of this nation. ↗

— Joe Barton

#best #flag #fought #founders #heroes

The American flag is an enduring symbol of liberty, democracy, and justice. It is fitting that the House act to protect it as we approach our nation's birthday, and as our men and women in uniform rally behind it in Iraq's battlefields. ↗

— Joe Barton

#american #american flag #approach #battlefields #behind

To enable men to exercise that power is the object of protection. ↗

— Henry Charles Carey

#exercise #men #object #power #protection

We need to be a leadership position about protecting minors on the Internet and, more importantly, giving the parents the tools they need to protect them. ↗

— Peter Chernin

#giving #importantly #internet #leadership #minors

Who will protect the public when the police violate the law? ↗

— Ramsey Clark

#police #protect #public #violate #who

We are protecting civilians. We are unarmed. We are no threat to you. Please do not shoot. ↗

— Rachel Corrie

#please #protecting #shoot #threat #unarmed