“People don’t really want to be free. Besides, it’s an illusion. I mean, you take my birds, they just love flying free, but every night they fly on home to their cages where it’s safe and warm.”— Alfred Gough, Miles Millar, Waldo, Stephen Lang, imdb.com
“I think most astronauts recognize that the space shuttle program is very high-risk, and are prepared for accidents. After the Challenger accident, NASA put in a lot of time to improve the safety of the space shuttle to fix the things that had gone wrong. The space shuttle is a better and safer rocke…”— Sally Ride, teacher.scholastic.com
“If you talk to more SURVIVORS and less sexist businessmen maybe you’ll understand what we want. We want safety. We want healing. We want accountability. We want closure. We want to live a life free from shame.”— Tarana Burke, twitter.com
“Prue Halliwell: Don't worry. We'll be safe here. Piper Halliwell: Don't say that. In horror movies, the people that say that are always the next to die.”— Constance M. Burge, Prue Halliwell, Shannen Doherty, imdb.com
“I was swallowing my secrets and making my body expand and explode. I found ways to hide in plain sight, to keep feeding a hunger that could never be satisfied — the hunger to stop hurting. I made myself bigger. I made myself safer.”— Roxane Gay, amazon.com
“What makes a place feel like home? Is it warmth and familiarity? Some idealized, make-believe TV version of the American Dream? Is it love and acceptance? Or is it simple safety?”— Aaron Allen, Jughead Jones, Cole Sprouse, imdb.com
“I don't know what other girls do before they go out in a heat, but for me the routine is pretty simple: I pray. I pray for safety for everyone and I pray for wisdom in my wave selection and ability to be at the right place at the right time.”— Bethany Hamilton, surfertoday.com
“I miss the nights when my parents And dreamcatchers were enough to keep me safe Instead of speed walks and keychains loaded down With pepper spray.”— Holly Riordan, amazon.com
“I hope every kidlit/YA festival and convention either has or is developing a strong harassment policy and makes it prominent. So many girls and women in this space—we must show them their safety matters.”— Gwenda Bond, twitter.com
“I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can’t say — I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.”— Harriet Tubman, harriet-tubman.org
“I spread the whole earth out as a map before me. On no one spot of its surface could I put my finger and say, here is safety.”— Mary Shelley, books.google.com
“It is a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.”— Alan Shepard, goodreads.com
“Each person’s heart breaks in it’s own way. Every cure will be different, but there are some things we all need. Before anything else, we need to feel safe.”— Erica Bauermeister, amazon.com
“When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it’s safe inside your mouth.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com
“The quiet transition from autumn to winter is not a bad time at all. It’s a time for protecting and securing things and for making sure you’ve got in as many supplies as you can. It’s nice to gather together everything you possess as close to you as possible, to store up your warmth and your thought…”— Tove Jansson, amazon.com
“Art is here to prove, and to help one bare, the fact that all safety is an illusion.”— James Baldwin, amazon.com
“You’ve a good heart. Sometimes that’s enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it’s not.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com