Quotes About Safekeeping

#1. I want you to steal something."
I smiled. "Do you want the king's seal? I can get it for you."
"If I were you," said the magus, "I'd stop bragging about that." His voice grated.
My smile grew. The gold ring with the engraved ruby had been in his safekeeping when I had stolen it away.

Megan Whalen Turner

#2. The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of perennial plants.

Wendell Berry

#3. Someone told me the delightful story of the crusader who put a chastity belt on his wife and gave the key to his best friend for safekeeping, in case of his death. He had ridden only a few miles away when his friend, riding hard, caught up with him, saying 'You gave me the wrong key!

Anais Nin

#4. His arms held me like I was made of glass. Glass that you wanted to protect without cracking, but crush into your soul for safekeeping.

Shelly Crane

#5. I didn't. My mother gave it to me as a keepsake, then took it back when I reached maturity - and gave it to the Weaver for safekeeping." "Why?" "So I wouldn't waste it.

Sarah J. Maas

#6. I place my hands over her ears and tip her head back, and kiss her, and try to put my heart into hers, for safekeeping, in case I lose it again.

Audrey Niffenegger

#7. There have been only five burglars in the history of robbery who have specialized in rope. All five of these burglars were caught and sent to prison, which is why scarcely any people lock up their rope for safekeeping.

Lemony Snicket

#8. When I create works of art, I do it because it is part of me and I must create. But afterward, when the work is done, I hope that it'll speak to people, that it'll open up their hearts or their minds. That cannot happen if the art is buried for safekeeping.

Nalini Singh

#9. Perhaps that's how I should think of them, Polly thought, the troupe and Miss Snelgrove and Trot. And Sir Godfrey. Not as lost to her, but as removed to this moment in time for safekeeping.

Connie Willis

#10. I fell into the books, and left myself there for safekeeping.

Jeanette Winterson

#11. Around the world, we can see the results of exploitation which destroys much without taking future generations into account. Today, all men have a duty to show themselves worthy of the mission given them by the Creator by ensuring the safekeeping of that creation.

Pope John Paul II

#12. We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that the only way to preserve our freedom is to hand it over to the government for safekeeping.

L. Neil Smith

#13. I am not
made of porcelain, Anthony. Nor do I need to be wrapped in wool and placed in a box for safekeeping.
I don't like boxes; I never have.

Karen Hawkins

#14. She suspected if they looked in Gamache's bedside table, they'd find all sorts of lost souls he put there for safekeeping. And maybe a baguette.

Louise Penny

#15. They carry their past in them as though safekeeping it for someone else. Very often they look at me and say, poor thing. They say I have lost a mother and am alone in the world. They feel compassion for me, for a loss that comes to all; they disregard their own extraordinary suffering.

Tsering Wangmo Dhompa

#16. As a writing man, or secretary, I have always felt charged with the safekeeping of all unexpected items of worldly and unworldly enchantment, as though I might be held personally responsible if even a small one were to be lost.

E.B. White

#17. Tread lightly on your partner's heart. It was given to you for safekeeping.

Alexandra Katehakis

#18. A new word. Bright with possibilities. A flawless pearl to turn over and over in my hand, then put away for safekeeping.

Jennifer Donnelly

#19. Camera but no selfies, which represent selfishness and egotism. Social media? Again: not really me.

Maurice Levy

#20. The secret parts of this city never ceased to amaze me.

Nicholas Kaufmann

#21. I believe in competition.

Craig Benson

#22. A man may be outlawed for the sake of a fish net he has never seen.

Selma Lagerlof

#23. My father was a very special human being. He was brilliant in academics, sports and the arts. He wrote, performed and directed plays in English and Hindi/Urdu at his regiment.

Ajay Mehta

#24. The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.

Rene Descartes