Welcome to Guards Quotes, a collection of insightful, inspiring, and thought-provoking quotes about guards and guarding. Guards play an essential role in various aspects of life, from protecting physical boundaries to safeguarding values and principles. Whether they are security guards, lifeguards, or metaphorical guardians, their presence symbolizes vigilance, protection, and reliability.
Throughout history and across cultures, guards have been celebrated for their courage, dedication, and commitment to keeping communities safe. From the stoic sentinels standing watch over ancient citadels to the modern-day security professionals patrolling our streets and buildings, the concept of guarding embodies a timeless and universal duty. Guards Quotes is a tribute to these unsung heroes, offering a glimpse into their world through the wisdom and insight captured in memorable quotes.
I remember watching an episode of ‘Seinfeld’ in which George can’t understand why security guards can’t sit down. He gets obsessed with it and eventually buys a chair for a security guard who sits down and goes to sleep. The shop gets robbed. That’s a brilliant extrapolation of what is essentially observational comedy. David Baddiel
I don’t think you negotiate with people by going around telling them that they’re like Nazi guards or it’s all about prosecco. Emily Thornberry
I’m going to make mistakes, I just have to be able to learn from them as quickly as possible. To learn faster, I watch film of myself and other good point guards, and then breaking down my mistakes and really analyzing them and seeing where I could have made better decisions. Jeremy Lin
I don’t want security guards. I don’t think security guards are particularly good for your writing. Mark E. Smith
A lot of executives act like their time is worth more than anyone else’s. But I always respect an employee who guards his or her time, even from me. Eli Broad
Many schools desperately need caring professionals like guidance counselors and social workers to ensure students’ emotional, social and educational needs are met. But proposals to arm teachers are irresponsible and dangerous. The role of educators is to teach and nurture our children, not to be armed guards. Randi Weingarten
Be assured, fellow citizens, that in a democracy it is the laws that guard the person of the citizen and the constitution of the state, whereas the despot and the oligarch find their protection in suspicion and in armed guards. Aeschines
What makes me unique is my ability to adapt to different situations and switch onto smaller guards and stay out there. Another component to being out there on the floor – and this is something that I learned as my college career went on – was staying on the floor, literally, comes down to not picking up fouls. Mohamed Bamba
That policy was abandoned very quickly, and the military police were tagged with the responsibility of conducting training, which they did. We were not equipped or set up with personnel to recruit new Iraqi guards. Janis Karpinski
If anyone has it rough at Guantanamo, it is the guards. They are constantly harassed and threatened by some of these terrorists. Prisoners tell guards, we know where your families are. We know where your wife is, your children, and we are going to kill them. Robin Hayes
When we were in Sweden, there was a fan that hid in a bin. I think one of the security guards saw and tried to take her out, and she went a bit crazy and started tackling them. Zayn Malik
I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the ‘Daily Telegraph’ with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right. Vince Cable
I feel like I can defend three different positions: point guards, shooting guards, and small forwards who don’t want to play too much in the post. Iman Shumpert
There’s tons of point guards in this league. There’s good point guards on bad teams. Eric Bledsoe
I didn’t spend a lot of time with prison guards, but my father was an assistant district attorney for a long time so I was always hearing stories about prisoners and prison guards. Taylor Schilling
I don’t envy guards. They’re quick little monkeys, those guys. Steven Adams
When a black man is stopped by a cop for no apparent reason, that is covert racism. When a black woman shops in a fancy store and is followed by security guards, that is covert racism. It is more subtle than 1960s racism, but it is still racism. Bob Beckel
One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards, had a negative effect on the viewing public. The military in Iraq specifically banned the photographing of wounded soldiers and coffins, thus sanitizing this terrible and bloody conflict. Walter Dean Myers
I enjoy going out by myself… always have, always will. I don’t have security guards, and, for the most part, I enjoy meeting new people. I see myself as a regular guy who likes playing video games with his nieces and nephews and poker with his family. I don’t have an art collection or take exotic vacations. I enjoy being at home. Vince Vaughn
The Cyprus Financial Crisis was a devastating blow to Cypriots and halted their banking system. Banks closed for two weeks to prevent a banking panic. When they reopened, capital controls were placed on the people’s money, and customers were met by armed guards at the branches. Perianne Boring
I guess everybody is doing a movie thing, so I’m doing the ‘Scorpion King 4.’ My role in the movie is as one of the king’s guards, with a very original name: Roykus. Apparently, back in the day, everybody’s name was ‘us,’ so ‘Roy’ plus ‘us,’ and put a little ‘k’ in there: Roykus. I’m one of the royal guards, and I do my own stunts like Jackie Chan. Roy Nelson
Having played in the league during the ’80s, ’90s, and the new millennium (old, I know), I had the chance to see firsthand how the best point guards of our time played the game. Reggie Miller
I would do ‘Superbad,’ and the next offers you would get would all be crazy cop characters or crazy security guards or something. Bill Hader
We’ve got to understand that the whole nature of the way American democracy guards its freedom has been changed. John Ashcroft
When they were taking Paris to jail for the second time, she went to kiss me goodbye. The guards said ‘No’ and just took her. Kathy Hilton
I had talked to a lot of people in Golden State’s front offices before the draft. They said they liked me, but they had a lot of guards, so I didn’t think that I would end up there. Stephen Curry
If you look at all the great shot-blockers of all time, they had length, and they had instincts. Even when you look at guards, like Dwyane Wade. He’s one of the best shot-blocking guards ever, and he has great instincts. He’s kind of cat-like. Mohamed Bamba
I’m a big hit with guards at security. They’re the center of my fan base, the airport security guards. Megan Mullally
The U.N. guards the vital principles entrenched in its charter, notably the sovereign equality of states and the inadmissibility of interference in their internal affairs. It is precisely because the U.N. is the chief guardian of both these sacrosanct principles that it alone is allowed to approve derogations from them. Shashi Tharoor
The point guards that I like are the ones that are playing like point guards. Gary Payton
I never let anyone pluck, including myself, unless my mom approves. She guards my eyebrows. She’s like the eyebrow police! Isabelle Fuhrman
My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where the whole family had to work as security guards and janitors. And I just got angry. Jim Carrey
We did it. Make no mistake: We have written history. Today there’s a change of guards in Denmark. Helle Thorning-Schmidt
2015 was an interesting year for me. After finally getting back behind the camera at the end of the summer to shoot the CW’s ‘Arrow,’ I found myself a couple of months later in a federal building in downtown Los Angeles, trying to convince half a dozen security guards to let me make my EEOC appointment despite my expired driver’s license. Lexi Alexander
I do not care how brave a president is; I do not care how many medals he may wear. I do not care how well trained his guards may be. If he violates the will of the people, he shall be eliminated. Ferdinand Marcos
I don’t have big security guards. I don’t have an entourage. Taylor Swift
I mean I constantly had security guards around me when I was younger and I wasn’t allowed to go to the mall with a lot of my friends and stuff like that. And so, when I finally was able to sneak out, I would just really, really take it to the next level. Nicole Richie
In the last camp they all ate grass, until the authorities forbade them to pull it up. They were accustomed to having the fruits of their little communal gardens stolen by the guards, after they had done all the work; but at the last camp everything was stolen. Martha Gellhorn
Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them. Friedrich Nietzsche
The Nauru files lifts the secrecy surrounding Australia’s hidden detention regime for asylum seekers through vivid reporting and the words of the guards and officials on the island themselves. Katharine Viner
The NBA has the best point guards in the world, so it is important that I come ready to play every night. Steve Nash
One good way of measuring the mood in Israel is just how alert or relaxed the guards at every restaurant entrance appear to be. Elliott Abrams
It isn’t brave to stand up for gun control in a building surrounded by armed guards. It’s simply elitist. Katie Pavlich
I went from being very athletic, one of the best guards in the NBA, to barely making it. No speed, no agility. I had to change how I played because I couldn’t exercise or train because my knee constantly hurt. Penny Hardaway
The Home Guards are required to come in at once and deliver up their arms, those who fail to do so will be regarded as enemies of the Government and treated accordingly. John Hunt Morgan
Just hearing somebody’s voice in center field, it helps our guards out to know where they need to go, when the screen is coming, when the back door is coming, when the flare is coming. When different things like that happen and we’re talking, it helps us all out in the long run. Andre Drummond
Our surest protection against assault from abroad has been not all our guards, gates and guns, or even our two oceans, but our essential goodness as a people. Our richest asset has been not our material wealth but our values. Theodore C. Sorensen
The America that clings to Confederate statues and flags, and that jealously guards the social privileges white Americans have long enjoyed, form the stalwarts of Trump’s base. Joy Reid
I don’t like getting up in the morning, getting in a car, driving on a freeway, and stopping at a gate where two guards are standing there, then walk into a studio that looks like a bunch of airplane hangars. Peter Falk
Ninety percent of the coaches in the NBA are guards, and there aren’t very many big men people coaching, I happen to be one of them and when I coached, everybody on my team, including the guards, had a hook shot, so that it was their bail out shot. Tom Heinsohn
Sam Jones and I, neither one of us were point guards, but we played the backcourt a lot together because we were basketball players. John Havlicek
I had proposed to HBO a series about the city cops in Rome at the time of Nero. What had interested me was the idea of order without law. The Praetorian Guard, who were the emperor’s guards, understood how they were to proceed. But for the city cops, who were called the Urban Cohorts, there was no law at all. David Milch
I love playing. If it was down to just that, it would be utopia. But it’s not. It’s airplanes, hotel rooms, limousines, and armed guards standing outside rooms. I don’t get off on that part of it at all. Jimmy Page
I can’t even go to the mall anymore. I have to bring 17 security guards… or it feels like it. Danielle Bregoli
The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people. Huey Newton
When you have the smaller guards – whether it be 6 feet, 6-2, 6-1, or under – they’re the most energetic, and they set the pace, whether it be shoot-around, practice, and in the game. Chris Mullin
Leaders today are isolated by phalanxes of body guards. It’s profoundly undemocratic, the way they have used terrorism as a means to protect themselves. Robert Harris
In the final years of his life, when former Communist Party Chief Zhao Ziyang lived under house arrest, in Beijing, his aging friends resorted to donning white doctors’ coats in order to slip past the guards stationed outside his home. Evan Osnos
When I started playing basketball, they always would have me at the block, and I’m like, ‘Yo, I don’t want to play down here. I want to do something else.’ This is not entertaining to me, and whatever the guards do, I wanted to do. Deandre Ayton
So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders. June Jordan
Every matchup is very important regardless of who the bigs are, who the guards are. Karl-Anthony Towns
It was actually a very nice little book done by a gift book company. They illustrated it with pictures from 1920s football, before there were face guards. Gregg Easterbrook
We’ve had to be escorted out of venues, things like that. We get security guards now. Lukas Forchhammer
So who or what is to blame for baseball games that go on forever? Two oft-cited culprits are constant replay calls and batters who leave the box in between every pitch to adjust their gloves and helmet and shin guards and elbow pads and then knock the dirt off their cleats before working up their stride for the next at-bat. Mary Pilon
It’s fine to have armed guards, but don’t then tell everyone else they can’t own a gun. Alana Stewart
Bring on your tear gas, bring on your grenades, your new supplies of Mace, your state troopers and even your national guards. But let the record show we ain’t going to be turned around. Ralph Abernathy
Guard some point guards, late shot clock, hopefully they miss. Tristan Thompson
People think that just because you’re a center, you’re not as smart as the guards or the smaller guys. Patrick Ewing
When I played with the Knicks, I was just as important or just as smart as any other of the guards I played with. I still had to call out plays, notice schemes, know the systems, do everything they had to do. Patrick Ewing
My teams in Serbia always had really good point guards. But I have always loved to dribble the ball. Even when I was outside, just walking by myself, I would always love to dribble and imagine my defender there in front of me – what I would try to do. Nikola Jokic
I try to exploit things against everybody; that’s part of the game: beat the guy that guards me while you’re beating their team. John Stockton
There were no artists in Ossining, which was the home of Sing Sing prison. Most of the parents of the guys I knew were guards there. Peter Falk
I try to get there three hours before the game, talk with the ushers and the security guards, the coaches and the fans. Craig Sager
It bothers me when the Hollywood elite are all so against people having guns and want rigorous gun restrictions. But I am friends with a lot of them, and most have armed guards with them or outside their homes. Alana Stewart
To prevent the theft of ‘Ben-Hur’s sets, guards were prowling the back lot long after production had been shut down. Gore Vidal
Sometimes I relax on defense and not understand I can’t do that. Night in and night out, you’re playing some of the best point guards in the world. That’s something I’m continuing to work on and continue to develop my lower body, get quicker and more explosive. Trey Burke
The U.S. has many vulnerable targets around Iran, and its bases are within the range of the Guards’ missiles. We have other capabilities as well, particularly when it comes to the support of Muslims for the Islamic republic. John C. Stennis
The prison system in Norway is fairly civilized, by world standards, and so are the prisoners and the guards. Varg Vikernes
Obviously I think offensively, spacing for me as a guy that puts a lot of pressure on the rim is going to make it harder on a defense. They’re going to have to make tougher decisions, and space is going to be way more open for all the guards, too. Rudy Gobert
On September 22, 2002, my mama, Buhlar Hinton, died. When the guards told me, I gave up. She’d been deteriorating for a long time – I believe she died of a broken heart. Anthony Ray Hinton
At the Grammys, you walk down the halls and everyone’s got five security guards. You can’t talk to anybody. You always feel out of place, like, ‘Hey, the rednecks are in town!’ Dave Haywood
Absolutely, there’s still a place for smaller guards. This is the time for it, really. You can’t hand check, you can get your space wherever you want, plus you can create your own opportunities. Muggsy Bogues
In prison, you’re issued a number of sanitary pads per month. And many times, even when you’re issued a number of sanitary pads, the guards will just come in and rip your room apart, rip your locker apart and take them. Susan Burton
I’m happy to feed the squirrels – tree rats with the agility of point guards – but in fair weather, they frighten my finches. They leap from snowbank to porch to feeder and stuff their cheek pouches with chickadee feed. Donald Hall
Waitresses, soldiers, rickshaw drivers, old ladies selling vegetables – my father would schmooze anybody. He was Clintonesque before the word existed. And, of course, it paid dividends. Ill-tempered guards at the most notorious border crossings waved him through with cheery smiles. Haughty maitre d’s fawned over him. Scott Anderson
The other inmates stand in a long straight line, flanked by guards, and I am dragged past them. I do not respect them, because they will not run – will not try to escape. Jack Henry Abbott
The Suns keep great point guards here. Eric Bledsoe
I remember meeting President Obama and looking at him, thinking, ‘Damn, this dude is really our president. He really went out and did it!’ If you look at stories like that, and other stories that I’m sure you could compare to, it’s just about freeing your mind and taking those guards down. Jamie Foxx
I’m one of those people who fiercely guards their privacy, so I hate doing interviews. Megan Fox
The Palestinians, whose national cause guards the gates of Arab-Israeli peace, look forward like their Arab brethren to that comprehensive, just, and lasting peace based on ‘land for peace’ and compliance with international legitimacy and resolutions. Yasser Arafat
Oh, there’s a lot of breaks in our sport. Strained muscles, breaks, tears. I’ve seen teeth fly out before mouth guards were compulsory. Feet fractures are quite common, cheeks, faces, jaws, legs. Carmen Marton
I think people let their guards down when they think that they’re not being intimidated or they’re not being threatened. Betty Gabriel
I lived near the border with China, and one night, I simply left home and walked across the iced-over river that separated the two countries. I was fortunate that my family had close relationships with some of the border guards, so I was able to cross without incident. Lee Hyeon-seo
Look for rash guards that come treated, for further sun protection, and never forget your hat! Christie Brinkley
Then, all of a sudden, here I am in the Press Room in the White House and walking in with the guards, who handed me three little pieces of paper asking me to send pictures to the guards at the White House. Majel Barrett
I want to be one of those point guards who knock down shots you have to get over the top. John Wall
Sometimes nature guards her secrets with the unbreakable grip of physical law. Sometimes the true nature of reality beckons from just beyond the horizon. Brian Greene
I measure myself against everybody, not just the shooting guards. Khris Middleton
You can avoid the press if you really want to and I don’t walk around with five security guards either because I think that just draws attention. Rod Stewart
The final effort came when our reconnaissance team reported contact with the POWs and their guards by radio near midnight at a pre-arranged crossing site. Bo Gritz