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title: "18 Protect Child Quotes by 17 authors"
description: "Browse 18 Protect Child quotes by 17 authors. Discover the best Protect Child sayings and thoughts."
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> [Mothers instinct...Protect her child at all cost...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/mothers-instinct-protect-her-child-at-all-cost/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [There is no length that is too great to go to in order to protect your child.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-bratt/there-is-no-length-that-is-too-great-to-go-to-in-order-to-protect/)

[Benjamin Bratt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-bratt/)

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> [“A basic moral imperative is in play here. If you can protect a child, you must.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/catherynne-m-valente/a-basic-moral-imperative-is-in-play-here-if-you-can-protect-a-child/)

[Catherynne M. Valente](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/catherynne-m-valente/)

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> [I cannot protect my child from everything, I don't care if it is sex, drink or drugs, all I can do is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-le/i-cannot-protect-my-child-from-everything-i-don-t-care-if-it-is-sex/)

[Michel'le](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-le/)

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> [“Filter a website, and you protect a student for a day. Educate students about online safety in the real world environment, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-harris/filter-a-website-and-you-protect-a-student-for-a-day-educate-students/)

[Christopher Harris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-harris/)

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> [One of the worst things about being a parent is knowing you can't protect your child from everything. It's life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/one-of-the-worst-things-about-being-a-parent-is-knowing-you-can-t/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [The arrangements that couples make in order to maintain civility in the midst of their journey to divorce are often most elaborate…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-irving/the-arrangements-that-couples-make-in-order-to-maintain-civility-in/)

[John Irving](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-irving/)

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> [“It’s hard for a parent to accept that you can’t protect your child from everything.’ ‘It’s hard for a child to accept…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fredrik-backman/it-s-hard-for-a-parent-to-accept-that-you-can-t-protect-your-child/)

[Fredrik Backman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fredrik-backman/)

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> [Nobody has a problem if you promote your child, even they are incompetent or have no merit. It's fine, it's your child,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vivek-agnihotri/nobody-has-a-problem-if-you-promote-your-child-even-they-are/)

[Vivek Agnihotri](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vivek-agnihotri/)

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> [Only later did I come to understand that to be a mother is to be an illusion. No matter how vigilant, in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-krauss/only-later-did-i-come-to-understand-that-to-be-a-mother-is-to-be-an/)

[Nicole Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-krauss/)

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> [You want to protect your child from pain, and what you get instead is life, and grace; and though theologians insist that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-lamott/you-want-to-protect-your-child-from-pain-and-what-you-get-instead-is/)

[Anne Lamott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-lamott/)

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> [The protection of a ten-year-old girl from her father's advances is a necessary condition of social order, but the protection of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-mead/the-protection-of-a-ten-year-old-girl-from-her-father-s-advances-is-a/)

[Margaret Mead](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-mead/)

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> [“HOw do you protect a child from heartbreak? All I know is the egg wants to be held all the time, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/camilla-gibb/how-do-you-protect-a-child-from-heartbreak-all-i-know-is-the-egg/)

[Camilla Gibb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/camilla-gibb/)

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> [You love your child, and you want to protect your child more than anything on this planet, and yet, by the time…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/connie-nielsen/you-love-your-child-and-you-want-to-protect-your-child-more-than/)

[Connie Nielsen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/connie-nielsen/)

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> [“you could only protect your child through watchfulness and love, that you must tend a child as you tended a garden, fertilizing,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/you-could-only-protect-your-child-through-watchfulness-and-love-that/)

[Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/)

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> [When you become a mother, it's your mission in life to protect your child. I therefore can't imagine what a hell it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bianca-balti/when-you-become-a-mother-it-s-your-mission-in-life-to-protect-your/)

[Bianca Balti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bianca-balti/)

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> [“One more, final question came from the audience on my last night in Newtown, and it was the one I most did…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-yancey/one-more-final-question-came-from-the-audience-on-my-last-night-in/)

[Philip Yancey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-yancey/)

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> [Parents - and teachers too - are woefully short-sighted when they try to protect the child from his mistakes, when they make…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sydney-j-harris/parents-and-teachers-too-are-woefully-short-sighted-when-they-try-to/)

[Sydney J. Harris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sydney-j-harris/)

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