Quotes of: Child-abuse Keyword

Truths are the last thing you learn about your family. By the time you learn, you're no longer their child.

Man Crazy

Maybe not. But maybe that's how the world changes, Isaiah. One father, one child, at a time.

The Sleeping Night

His impulsive buss had been as beautiful as a first kiss to a child. And, she felt, as important.

Snowbound

...Incest is rape by extortion. Thus the child's very childhood becomes a weapon used to control her.

Secret Survivors

What if everything you believe is wrong and you could still be loved and still be forgiven?

Saving Raphael Santiago

I might be 30 years old, but a girl never outgrows the need for her mother.

The Shop on Blossom Street

The greatest gift a parent can leave a child is that parent's own independence.

The Shell Seekers

No child really chooses his religion; it is just the luck of the draw which blanket of beliefs you are wrapped in.

The Storyteller

If an overgrown child draws something on a piece of paper, you can't ask the paper what the drawing is supposed to represent.

Sophie's World

A mother is a child's first looking glass into the world.

Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

Being a child is such a shining gift, yet we don't know how precious it is until it's worn out and gone away.

Thin Air

the twelve royal gifts of birth belong to every child, born anywhere, at anytime" -

The Twelve Gifts of Birth

A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.

Thinking and Writing in College

People adjust their behavior to fit the society they live in. They integrate because they have to. But what they are on the inside doesn't change.

Tough Customer

Every year, when you're a child, you become a different person.

Too Much Happiness

Poverty is what you see in the eyes of a Black child living in the squatter camp.Matsime Simon Mohapi

Poverty in the Land of Riches - South Africa

I thought she had a good heart, though not much respectability- or maybe it was because of that.

Precious Bane

I do not like think of them as dead, just alive in another time, they are alive in that time just as we are in this time." - Rose

Paradox Child

I'd far rather leave a thought behind me than a child. Other people can have children.

A Passage to India

When we teach a child patience we offer them the gift of a dignified life.

Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living

I was always an odd child, though I had no idea what odd was, really.

Prince Nameless