Overprotective Quotes

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

— John Updike

I was a theatrical kid, but my parents were overprotective. When I expressed interest in show business, they shut it down.

— Wendi McLendon-Covey

“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

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

— Chris Van Allsburg

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

— Nancy O'Dell

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

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“calling West overprotective was like calling a great white shark ‘cuddly.”

— Staci Hart

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

— Mia Maestro

“I leaned over the counter, jacket riding up in the back, and nearly lost my cool when he automatically tugged it back…

— Megan Erickson

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…

— Matt Damon

“Batman: What have I told you about trusting dangerous and obsessive criminal geniuses? Wonder Woman: To be fair, you tend to warn…

— Landry Q. Walker

I do think my mother was a bit overprotective, not in any sordid way, but just normally. She certainly might say to…

— Laura Dern

There's a word like overprotective to describe some parents, but no word that means the opposite. What word do you use to…

— Anonymous

I shuddered at the image in my head, at the word feed. But Jasper wasn’t worried about frightening me, not overprotective like…

— Stephenie Meyer

“We weren’t going to be apart for a minute, not if I could help it. If that made me overprotective, so be…

— Karina Halle

“As parents we have a tendency to overprotect; it's okay to try and show them all positives but we cannot forget that…

— Johnnie Dent Jr

“When her mother combed Harriet's hair, she said that the woods were disgustingly muddy and mosquito-ridden. During her history unit on pioneers,…

— Kimberly Karalius

He was trying to be everywhere at once," the redhead told the human. "Trying to make sure Alice had nothing to do,…

— Stephenie Meyer

Though Anne was born in Alabama and schooled in Mississippi, she had traveled North, and, like many Southerners, gained a theoretical understanding…

— Kathy Reichs

“The people of jewel," said Olga Ciavolga,"treat their children like delicate flowers. They think they will not survive without constant protection. But…

— Lian Tanner

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

— N. T. Wright

I do have to say my daughter, Sunday, said to me [I was being] overprotective, so you must have been a fly…

— Nicole Kidman

I think I'd be a good mother. Maybe a little overprotective. Like I would never let the kid out, of my body.

— Wendy Liebman

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…

— Rachel Cohn

I like someone who gets jealous and protective but still trusts me.

— Ia_bloodyrose@yahoocom

People always accuse us of being overprotective with Beyonce. But I was the mother saying, 'You gonna go hang out? You gonna…

— Tina Knowles