Guardian
One who guards, preserves, or secures; one to whom any person or thing is committed for protection, security, or preservation from injury; a warden.
One who has, or is entitled to, the custody of the person or property of an infant, a minor without living parents, or a person incapable of managing his own affairs.
Performing, or appropriate to, the office of a protector; as, a guardian care.
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Guardian Quotations
We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.
Saint Augustine
The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
James Madison
In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.
Henri Frederic Amiel
A man's character is his guardian divinity.
Heraclitus
Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
The Hudson's Bay Company has always been the guardian angel of the north.
Ernest Thompson Seton
When I was a child I thought I saw an angel. It had wings and kinda looked like my sister. I opened the door so some light could come into the room, and it sort of faded away. My mother said it was probably my Guardian Angel.
Denzel Washington
To me, Garth, he's kind of like my guardian angel. It's like every time I need some help, he's there.
Chris LeDoux
With eye upraised his master's looks to scan, The joy, the solace, and the aid of man; The rich man's guardian, and the poor man's friend, The only creature faithful to the end.
George Crabbe
If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
Joseph Addison
Guardian Translations
guardian in French is gardeur, tuteur
guardian in Hungarian is gondnok
guardian in Italian is tutore, guardiano
guardian in Latin is curator, custos
guardian in Norwegian is formynder, beskytter
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