Quotes about Custody
The captain of the guard assigned them to Joseph, and he became their personal attendant. After they had been in custody for some time,
- Genesis 40:4
Pharaoh was once angry with his servants, and he put me and the chief baker in the custody of the captain of the guard.
- Genesis 41:10
If you are honest, leave one of your brothers in custody while the rest of you go and take back grain to relieve the hunger of your households.
- Genesis 42:19
They placed him in custody until the will of the LORD should be made clear to them.
- Leviticus 24:12
and because it had not been declared what should be done to him, they placed him in custody.
- Numbers 15:34
When His family heard about this, they went out to take custody of Him, saying, “He is out of His mind.”
- Mark 3:21
They seized Peter and John, and because it was evening, they put them in custody until the next day.
- Acts 4:3
Before this faith came, we were held in custody under the law, locked up until faith should be revealed.
- Galatians 3:23
Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty. All in our custody seethes with an inner restlessness. But in dreams we stand in this great democracy of the possible and there we are right pilgrims indeed. There we go forth to meet what we shall meet.
- Cormac McCarthy
Today, at my direction, the United States launched a targeted operation against that compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. A small team of Americans carried out the operation with extraordinary courage and capability. No Americans were harmed. They took care to avoid civilian casualties. After a firefight, they killed Osama bin Laden and took custody of his body.
- Barack Obama
All the time they were playing the Queen never left off quarrelling with the other players, and shouting 'Off with his head!' or 'Off with her head!' Those whom she sentenced were taken into custody by the soldiers, who of course had to leave off being arches to do this, so that by the end of half an hour or so there were no arches left, and all the players, except the King, the Queen, and Alice, were in custody and under sentence of execution.
- Lewis Carroll
Every project has been found to be no better than committing the lamb to the custody of the wolf, except that one which is called a balance of power.
- John Adams