Protecting Children Quotes:

Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.

- John F. Kennedy

topic: Hope, Children, Presidential, Happy Children, Hope For The Future

We must protect families, we must protect children, who have inalienable rights and should be loved, should be taken care of physically and mentally, and should not be brought into the world only to suffer.

- Indira Gandhi

source: Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

topic: Children, Taken, Rights, Protecting Children

There is no greater warrior than a mother protecting her child.

- N.K. Jemisin

source: N. K. Jemisin (2010). “The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms”, p.28, Hachette UK

topic: Mother, Children, Warrior, Protecting Children, Protecting Her

Children do learn what they live. Then they grow up to live what they've learned.

- Dorothy Nolte

source: "Children Learn What They Live: Parenting to Inspire Values". Book by Dorothy Nolte and Rachel Harris, January 5, 1998.

topic: Children, Kids, Parenting, I Love My Children, I Love My Kids

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

- Jesse Jackson

topic: Birthday, Family, Christmas, Kid At Heart, Inspirational Parenting

The schools play an important role when it comes down to protecting children against violence.Violence is one of the principal reasons why children don't go to school. It's also one of the causes of the alarming school dropout rates.

- Shakira

topic: Children, School, Play, Dropouts, Against Violence

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.

- Sigmund Freud

topic: Daughter, Fathers Day, Strong, Joys Of Childhood, Inspirational Father

Our law enforcement must be given every tool available to protect children from predators and parents need to know who is living in their community.

- Robin Hayes

topic: Children, Law, Community, Protecting Children

The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.

- Frank A. Clark

topic: Children, Parenting, Important, Happy Children, Inspirational Parenting

I certainly believe in limited government but protecting children against injury abuse is certainly inside my sphere of things that the government should do.

- Mitch Daniels

source: "Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels Is Tough On Budgets". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. February 28, 2011.

topic: Children, Believe, Government, Protecting Children

That's all about the natural order of things, the idea of nature protecting children but also children protecting nature.

- Hugh Jackman

topic: Children, Order, Ideas, Protect Nature, Protecting Children

I've lost a lot. I've lost money, and my reputation has taken a hit for taking the high road to protect my dignity, to protect children, and for other good causes. But I don't think there's ever too steep a price for doing the right thing.

- Gabrielle Union

source: Source: pittsburghurbanmedia.com

topic: Children, Taken, Thinking, Lost Money, High Road

The Children's Safety Act will help protect children from the perpetrators of these vile crimes by strengthening notification requirements for sex offenders and increasing criminal penalties.

- James T. Walsh

topic: Sex, Children, Safety, Perpetrators, Offenders

If you throw the baby away, that's garbage. But no, the heart's precious. You could get something, you could save a life. Well, you just threw away a baby but the heart's valuable. That's the horror and the terror and the hypocrisy that nobody can understand. We base communities on the idea of protecting children based on the sacrifice of adults. Adults work and die so that their next generation would grow and prosper.

- Greg Gutfeld

source: "Hollywood weighs in on Iran nuclear deal". "The Five" with Greg Gutfeld, Kimberly Guilfoyle, Julie Roginsky, Eric Bolling and Dana Perino, www.foxnews.com. July 29, 2015.

topic: Baby, Children, Heart, Protecting Children

I didn't marry you because you were perfect. I didn't even marry you because I loved you. I married you because you gave me a promise. That promise made up for your faults. And the promise I gave you made up for mine. Two imperfect people got married and it was the promise that made the marriage. And when our children were growing up, it wasn't a house that protected them; and it wasn't our love that protected them--it was that promise.

- Thornton Wilder

topic: Marriage, Growing Up, Children, Marriage Life, Married Couples

We lose eight children and teenagers to gun violence every day. If a mysterious virus suddenly started killing eight of our children every day, America would mobilize teams of doctors and public health officials. We would move heaven and earth until we found a way to protect our children. But not with gun violence.

- Elizabeth Warren

source: Elizabeth Warren (2014). “A Fighting Chance”, p.237, Metropolitan Books

topic: Children, Teenager, Team, Public Health, Protecting Children

You've got criminal courts and child welfare officials refusing to do their jobs and protect children so they can shift the cases over to family court where predatory professionals can turn a dirty buck off the atrocities committed against children.

- Anne Stevenson

topic: Jobs, Children, Dirty, Atrocities Committed, Protecting Children

The proverb says that Providence protects children and idiots. This is really true. I know because I have tested it.

- Mark Twain

source: Mark Twain (2002). “Mark Twain's Book for Bad Boys and Girls”, Mjf Books

topic: Children, Idiot, Providence, Protecting Children

We’ve educated children to think that spontaneity is inappropriate. Children are willing to expose themselves to experiences. We aren’t. Grownups always say they protect their children, but they’re really protecting themselves. Besides, you can’t protect children. They know everything.

- Maurice Sendak

source: "The Paternal Pride of Maurice Sendak" by Bernard Holland, www.nytimes.com. November 8, 1987.

topic: Children, Thinking, Spontaneity, Protecting Children

It is quite reasonable to subscribe both to the old saw that no good girl was ever ruined by a book and to the perception that it is not good for children to be constantly exposed to the sexual violence in our popular culture. Protecting children seems to me logically, legally, and rather easily differentiated from censorship.

- Molly Ivins

topic: Girl, Children, Book, Good Girl, Protecting Children

I like to protect children. I mean, there's nothing wrong with having adult programming for mature adults that can selectively decide what they want to watch and what they don't want to watch.

- Burt Ward

topic: Children, Mean, Adults, Protecting Children

Our actions today will protect children from the adverse effects of exposure to pesticides commonly used on foods. The agency also is on schedule to meet all deadlines for ensuring safer pesticides use under the new Food Quality Protection Act.

- Carol Browner

source: "Study urged of pesticide, youth violence link". www.cnn.com. August 9, 1999.

topic: Children, Adversity, Agency, Pesticides, Protecting Children

I've discovered that I can't trust the ratings board at all, because they have - to my mind - a perverted point of view about what's appropriate for children. They think that if you see any part of a male or female anatomy, we have to protect children from it, which is not true, and they think almost any level of violence is okay for children, which is absolutely not true... They're really off the mark.

- William H. Macy

source: Source: abilitymagazine.com

topic: Children, Thinking, Views, Protecting Children

I should mention there are many European countries right now that already protect children from Wi-Fi, so it's not like this is some preposterous idea. This is already embraced by many countries all around the world. I don't think it is preposterous to suggest that public health needs greater protection in this country, especially that of children, among whom there is a rising tide of brain cancer right now.

- Jill Stein

source: Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

topic: Country, Children, Cancer, European Countries, Protecting Children

Heaven, they say, protects children, sailors, and drunken men; and whatever answers to Heaven in the academical system protects freshmen.

- Thomas Hughes

source: Thomas Hughes (1864). “Tom Brown at Oxford”, p.156

topic: Children, Men, Heaven, Protecting Children

Belonging to the Catholic Church gives your support to an organization that conceals and protects child rapists. Again, not as a few isolated incidents, but as a massive, institution-wide culture, a matter of policy even, that extends throughout the organization and reaches all the way to the top. Belonging to the Catholic Church - giving them money, letting them count you in their rolls, sending your children to their schools - gives this behavior your personal thumbs-up, and actively enables it to continue.

- Greta Christina

source: "Why Is Anyone Still Catholic?". Article by Greta Christina, www.alternet.org. May 14, 2010.

topic: Children, School, Organization, Protecting Children, Thumbs Up

It's time that we recognize the Supreme Court is not the supreme being, and we change the policy to be pro-life and protect children instead of rip up their body parts and sell them like they're parts to a Buick.

- Mike Huckabee

source: Mike Huckabee at GOP primary debate at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, time.com. August 7, 2015.

topic: Children, Rip, Pro Life, Protecting Children

Why do we protect children from life? It's no wonder that we become afraid to live. We're not told what life really is. We're not told that life is joy and wonder and magic and even rapture, if you can get involved enough. We're not told that life is also pain, misery, despair, unhappiness, and tears. I don't know about you, but I don't want to miss any of it. I want to embrace life, and I want to find out what it's all about. I wouldn't want to go through life without knowing what it is to cry.

- Leo Buscaglia

topic: Life, Children, Pain, Embrace Life, Protecting Children

We are afraid that our adult sexuality will somehow damage our kids, that it’s inappropriate or dangerous. But whom are we protecting? Children who see their primary caregivers at ease expressing their affection (discreetly, within appropriate boundaries) are more likely to embrace sexuality with the healthy combination of respect, responsibility, and curiosity it deserves. By censoring our sexuality, curbing our desires, or renouncing them altogether, we hand our inhibitions intact to the next generation.

- Esther Perel

topic: Children, Kids, Responsibility, Protecting Children, Inhibitions

Adults trying to protect children from reality, right? And adults always trying to fill children with fantasy - the tooth fairy, Santa, make-believe games, etc. But kids are really smart, I think they know from an early age about death, this void and hole they are immediately traveling toward.

- Shane Warren Jones

topic: Children, Smart, Believe, Really Smart, Tooth Fairy

I'd like to protect children, too, but... is everything worth sacrificing to that? I mean, drugs have done a lot of good... They've midwived a lot of good ideas... lot of great songs, you know? I think "Penny Lane" is worth 10 dead kids... I think Dark Side of the Moon is worth 100 dead kids. There, I said it.

- Bill Maher

source: "Bill Maher: I'm Swiss". Documentary, Comedy, 2005.

topic: Song, Children, Mean, Protecting Children