Overprotective Quotes

#1. I think parents generally know what's best for their children. But I suppose it's possible to be overprotective.

Chris Van Allsburg

#2. That's the trouble with caring about anybody, you begin to feel overprotective. Then you begin to feel crowded.

John Updike

#3. Let him grow up, Regan. Quit fighting the inevitable. For Christ's sake, Jeremy's nearly a man."

"Haven't you heard? Twenty's the new twelve."

"Only from overprotective, control-freak mothers.

Lisa Jackson

#4. Does Vasic know you're here alone?"
"Does Sahara know she's mated to an overprotective Neanderthal?"
Kaleb's lips curved.

Nalini Singh

#5. Now that I have kids, I'm probably more overprotective than I've ever been. My wife's nickname for me is 'red alert.' I sometimes check just to see if the kids are breathing. But I try not to be a helicopter parent.

Matt Damon

#6. I work with kids, and I see certain things, so I realize now why my mother was so horrified and overprotective of everything that I watched.

Debby Ryan

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

Nancy O'Dell

#8. It's funny how there's a word like overprotective to describe some parents, but no word that means the opposite. what word do you use to describe parents who don't protect enough? underprotective? neglectful? self-involved? lame? all of the above. olivia's family

R.J. Palacio

#9. MY MOUTH OPENED.
Way to go, Clare. Way to impress the mother of a prospective boyfriend. Moms love their boys to date psycho overprotective girls.

Kim Harrington

#10. she was a little on the loony side. She was a compulsive worrier, overprotective of her son to the nth degree, and should probably purchase stock in hand sanitizer companies for how often she used it.

Miranda Liasson

#11. There's a word like overprotective to describe some parents, but no word that means the opposite. What word do you use to describe parents who don't protect enough? Underprotective? Neglectful? Self-involved? Lame? All of the above.

R.J. Palacio

#12. If your mom seems overprotective, it's possible she knows you better than you think.

Rick Riordan

#13. To get overprotective about particular readings of the Bible is always in danger of idolatry.

N. T. Wright

#14. I MADE Gordo drop the wards around the house and the Bennetts came over for dinner at our house one Sunday. At first, he refused. "It's not safe." I said, "I belong to a pack of overprotective werewolves who live next door. I'm pretty sure I couldn't be safer." "Christ,

T.J. Klune

#15. Having a daughter makes you see things in a different way. You have to see how you're carrying yourself because there's a little girl. There's not a little boy, there's a little girl. I think I'm a little more overprotective.

Tracy Morgan

#16. He was even more overprotective than my stepfather. But in a boyfriend, that kind of thing is actually attractive.

Meg Cabot

#17. Life is unfair and there are winners and losers, regardless of how much overprotective parents attempt to shield their offspring from reality.

Jen Lancaster

#18. I shuddered at the image in my head, at the word feed. But Jasper wasn't worried about frightening me, not overprotective like Edward always was.

Stephenie Meyer

#19. My parents were overprotective because you could get kidnapped and bombs were exploding in the streets.

Mia Maestro

#20. Tia is too overprotective. You know that." Mike put down his cell phone. "Adam quit the hockey team." Mo made a face as if Mike had suggested that his son had gotten into devil worship or bestiality. "Whoa." Mike

Harlan Coben

#21. This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the most.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#22. The reward is in the risk. You can't stay hidden inside Grandpa's overprotective cloak forever. You've seemed like you needed to grow out of that for a while. Mom and Dad going away, and the red notebook, these things just helped. Now it's up to you to

Rachel Cohn

#23. The anger subsided, and my shoulders fell. "I know you didn't. But you have got to curb this overprotective big-brother thing you've got going on."
Travis laughed once. "I'm not playing the big brother, Pigeon. Not even close.

Jamie McGuire

#24. And that reminds me, Mama! I have just intercepted another of that puppy's floral offerings to my sister. This billet was attached to it. (Charles)

Georgette Heyer

#25. As parents we have a tendency to overprotect; it's okay to try and show them all positives but we cannot forget that the real world has teeth

Johnnie Dent Jr.

#26. Most fathers don't threaten to disembowel their daughter's boyfriends."
"That's not true. And anyway, that's not what I actually said. It was much worse.

Richelle Mead

#27. The play is not in the words, it's in you!

Stella Adler

#28. History is a tangled skein that one may take up at any point, and break when one has unravelled enough.

Henry Adams

#29. Sports always works for us more allegorically or metaphorically and that's what's fantastic about why we love them. You demonstrate the limits to which a human being can go and they keep pushing the boundaries of that.

Ron Howard

#30. Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#31. Batman: What have I told you about trusting dangerous and obsessive criminal geniuses?

Wonder Woman: To be fair, you tend to warn everyone about everything.

Batman: Point.

Landry Q. Walker

#32. The union of the Roman empire was dissolved; its genius was humbled in the dust; and armies of unknown barbarians, issuing from the frozen regions of the North, had established their victorious reign over the fairest provinces of Europe and Africa.

Edward Gibbon

#33. You really have to let me fight my own battles. You can't constantly second-guess me and try to protect me. It's stifling.

E.L. James

#34. When you're in the desert, you look into infinity ... It makes you feel terribly small, and also in a strange way, quite big.

David Lean

#35. A perfect treat must include a trip to a second-hand bookshop.

Virginia Woolf

#36. As an actor, you most often play relatively average parts, so to get to play extreme versions of anything, those are the most exciting parts.

Neil Patrick Harris

#37. In our case, finding a Lucy is unique. No one will ever find another Lucy. You can't order one from a biological supply house. It's a unique discovery, a unique specimen.

Donald Johanson

#38. Not only is your own happiness and welfare related to others, but the more you help them, the happier you will be.

Dalai Lama