Overprotective Quotes

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

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Hurt, Parent, Tragedy

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.24, Random House

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

  Nancy O'Dell

  Loses

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

  John Updike

  Breakup, Caring, Trouble

  John Updike (2010). “Rabbit Redux”, p.19, Random House

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• 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

  Mean, Self, Opposites

  R. J. Palacio (2017). “The Wonder eOmni Collection: Wonder, Auggie & Me, 365 Days of Wonder”, p.202, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• 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

  Notebook, Mom, Dad

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.212, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• 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

  Kids, Breathing, Wife

  "Matt Damon Reveals His Insecurities". Interview with John Scott Lewinski, www.askmen.com. September 17, 2011.

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

  Mia Maestro

  Pregnancy, Parent, Bombs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Reality, Parent, Understanding

  Kathy Reichs (2014). “Monday Mourning: A Novel”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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• He was trying to be everywhere at once," the redhead told the human. "Trying to make sure Alice had nothing to do, actually." He shook his head as he looked at the tiny blackhaired girl. "Alice doesn‘t need anyone‘s help." The vampire named Alice shot a glare at Jasper. "Overprotective fool," she said in her clear soprano voice. Jasper met her stare with a half smile, seeming to forget for a second that I existed.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Girl, Voice, Vampire

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

  N. T. Wright

  Reading, Danger, Idolatry

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• I do have to say my daughter, Sunday, said to me [I was being] overprotective, so you must have been a fly on the wall.

  Nicole Kidman

  Daughter, Wall, Sunday

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• 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

  Worried, Frightening

  Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company

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