Breakup Quote by John Updike

We feel crowded by other people; we feel crowded by social rules; we feel crowded by ourselves, mainly.

— Frederick Lenz

I spend so much time alone that whenever I see my shadow I feel crowded.

— Dov Davidoff

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

— N. T. Wright

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

— Lian Tanner

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

— Wendi McLendon-Covey

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

— Megan Erickson

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

— Laura Dern

“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

“you're all so overprotective you'd be delighted if you could pack your mates in cotton wool and put them inside glass bubbles.' Sascha started…

— Nalini Singh

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

— Nicole Kidman

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

— Kathy Reichs

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

— Kimberly Karalius