Overprotective quotes:

Send

To get overprotective about particular readings of the Bible is always in danger of idolatry. -- N. T. Wright
My parents were overprotective because you could get kidnapped and bombs were exploding in the streets. -- Mia Maestro
That's the trouble with caring about anybody, you begin to feel overprotective. Then you begin to feel crowded. -- John Updike
This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the most. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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
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
Though Anne was born in Alabama and schooled in Mississippi, she had traveled North, and, like many Southerners, gained a theoretical understanding of the concept of cold. But the mind is an overprotective parent. What it doesn't care for, it hides. Like many inhabiting the subtropics, Anne had repressed the reality of subzero mercury. -- Kathy Reichs
--
I think parents generally know what's best for their children. But I suppose it's possible to be overprotective. -- Chris Van Allsburg
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
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
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

Send