Shields Quotations

When I'm out with a group I hide in the corner and get legless. I just make sure my friends shield me.

I am a light person. I think of myself with a shield, a protective shield around me. And I think of bad things bouncing off it. Boom, boom, boom, ba-boom, ba- boom!

The guitar was my weapon, my shield to hide behind.

Minorities have a right to appeal to the Constitution as a shield against such oppression.

I always thought that the badge a cop has was more like the shield that Captain America has. It's an obvious sign of good and something you'll protect other people with, but it will also protect you.

I thought that I held the record of most appearances on the Bob Hope Show, but I think - It's Brooke Shields

I've committed myself to serve my constituents in South Shields and I have committed myself to British politics.

I'm not much of a famous-person friend. I've hung out with Brooke Shields and I don't think I've ever seen that kind of pure face recognition, but I keep a low profile.

Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.

The media has been trying to protect Obama. The media has been trying to shield Obama. Several in the Republican establishment in the so-called conservative media have even been trying to shield Obama.

If you draw your sword against those you sworn to protect, the very ones who trust in your strength, how will you convince them that you are a shield when the dragons come and take them away?

Good Humor is the best shield against the darts of satirical raillery

When Eve dropped her shield of faith, every other piece of her spiritual armor became vulnerable.

A legitimate democracy cannot act against a terror organization because it is using civilians as a human shield, and therefore it should absorb attacks on its own civilians.

I wasn't born with a tie or with Mark Shields stapled to my left hip. I have another life.

Big egos are big shields for lots of empty space.

I think that 'The Shield' was a phenomenal series finale.

When you get a poem [in a public place], it happens to you so suddenly that you don't have time to deploy your anti-poetry deflector shields that were installed in high school.

Perfectionism is a twenty-ton shield that we lug around thinking it will protect us when, in fact, it's the thing that's really preventing us from taking flight.

I think we all wear some kind of mask. There are masks that shield us from others, but there are masks that embolden us, and you see that in carnival. The shiest child puts on a mask and can do anything and be anybody.

I thought that culture and education are the shield. An educated person cannot do certain things and, and be educated, you cannot, and there they were, killing children day after day.

Every organism requires an environment of friends, partly to shield it from violent changes, and partly to supply it with its wants.

When we were only acquaintances, you let me be myself, but now you're always protecting me... I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult. Can't I be trusted to face the truth but I must get it second-hand through you? A woman's place!

I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.

I'm a huge fan of things like The Wire and The Shield.

My only good result in 1997 was marrying Brooke Shields.

There are truths that shield themselves behind veils, and are best spoken by implication. Even the sun veils himself in his own rays to blind the gaze of the too curious starer.

Do not fear so, here is one who would be a blade at your back. A shield across your breast. Here is kin, here is strength to lean upon, to share as you share in need.

Militant mothers hiding in the basement using pots and pans as their shields and their helmets.

Your humor is your compass and your shield. You can hone it into a weapon or you can pull its strands out to make your very own cotton-candy blanket. You can’t exist on a diet of humor alone, but you can’t exist on a diet without it, either.

Losing our ignorance can be dangerous because our ignorance is a shield.

Cover your selfe with your shield, and care not for cryes.

Zeal is ever the buckler and shield of a true soldier.

Arise, arise, Riders of Théoden! Fell deeds awake, fire and slaughter! spear shall be shaken, shield be splintered, a sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises! Ride now, ride now! Ride to Gondor!

But when you become a slave to a public persona and don’t feel comfortable without it, it becomes a shield and it shouldn’t come at the expense of your self-worth.

The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.

I know what I say; I understand my mission and business. God Almighty is my shield; and what can man do if God is my friend?

Nothing was easier to shatter than the fragile shield of an idealist.

Sisters are a shield against life's cruel adversity.

My truths are all foreknown,This anguish self-revealed.I'm naked to the bone,With nakedness my shield.

I will survive, Tracy thought. I face mine enemies naked, and my courage is my shield.

Three things trust and cherish well- The horse on which you ride, The beast that guards and watches, And your shield-mate at your side.

The networks are different so they have a different approach. Obviously, with The Shield - that was on FX so they had a little bit more leeway as far as the dialogue was concerned and even the content and what they showed the viewers, which is a great thing. But we will push it to the limit as far as FOX will let us go; that's for damn sure.

Return with your shield, or upon it.’ (Julian's stepmother)

Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority.

The red and white and starry blue Is freedom's shield and hope.

See the sun! God's crest upon His azure shield, the Heavens.

The devout belief that the world is explainable is both a terrible vulnerability and a stout shield.

Judgment is such a useful shield, isn't it? We can hide behind it, rise above others on its crest, keep ourselves safe and separate.

The undoubted sign of a society well under control or in decline is that language has ceased to be a means of communication and has become instead a shield for those who master it.

The truth is often one's best shield.

When you're shy, a camera becomes an entry into life. It was a kind of shield I could hide my shyness behind, and it allowed me to become an active observer rather than a passive one.

Your spirit is the true shield.

Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate's: Souls know no conquerors.

I have a soul that like an ample shield Can take in all, and verge enough for more.

Prayer is a shield to the soul

How can I shield myself from the things that I hear?

I feel a complete protection on my pilgrimage. God is my shield. There are no accidents in the Divine Plan nor does God leave us unattended. No one walks so safely as those who walk humbly and harmlessly with great love and great faith.

Values are the shields that you carry throughout life and it protects you from whatever life throws at you.

I'm the most unromantic lump of Northern suet. Yes, a woman did accost me once in South Shields, but she had a face like Red Rum.

Our God was my shield. His protecting care is an additional cause for gratitude.

But there are still good shows like 24, Boomtown and the Wire, the Shield.

For Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm, 267,300 reserve component service men and women were called to service.

Being unpopular is never easy; but being unpopular in a good cause is a shield against despair.

Once or twice a day, I am enveloped inside what I like to call the Impenetrable Shield of Melancholy. This shield, it is impenetrable. Hence the name. I cannot speak. And while I can feel myself freeze up, I can't do anything about it.

Once again I feel beneath my heels the ribs of Rocinante. Once more, I'm on the road with my shield on my arm.

For an impenetrable shield, stand inside yourself

There's so much knowledge to be had that specialists cling to their specialties as a shield against having to know anything about anything else. They avoid being drowned.

It is only through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; Through Art and art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.

It is not only highly desirable but necessary that there should be legislation which shall carefully shield the interests of wage-workers, and which shall discriminate in favor of the honest and humane employer by removing the disadvantage under which he stands when compared with unscrupulous competitors who have no conscience and will do right only under fear of punishment.

A fearless woman who knows that her purity is her best shield can never be dishonoured.

God is the shield of the nonviolent.

Non-violence should never be used as a shield for cowardice. It is a weapon for the brave.

My shyness has been in reality my shield and buckler. It has allowed me to grow. It has helped me in my discernment of truth.

A warrior carries his shield for the sake of the entire line.

Come back with your shield - or on it

A Spartan woman, as she handed her son his shield, exhorted him saying, "As a warrior of Sparta come back with your shield or on it."

Such power I gave the people as might do, Abridged not what they had, now lavished new, Those that were great in wealth and high in place My counsel likewise kept from all disgrace. Before them both I held my shield of might, And let not either touch the other's right.

How else could he go on, except with merciful incomprehension held before him like a shield? How could anyone?

The only guide to a man's conscience, the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions.