Quotes of: Child-abuse Keyword

The abuse of detainees in U.S. custody has severely undermined our Nation's position in the world.

Diane Watson

I don't think the very fact that I'm a woman makes me suddenly more vulnerable or more inherently used and abused.

Esme Bianco

People have a right to have their lives witnessed; if we coexist with the systems that abuse people, then we have a duty to understand.

Beeban Kidron

The stated mission at the time was simply to use the influence of the entertainment industry to do an accurate portrayal of drug and alcohol abuse. We all admit that we're not trying to censor anybody.

Gerald McRaney

[Looking at psychiatrist's ink blot, remembering his abusive mother] Rorschach: Some nice flowers.

Watchmen

There are two things that interest me - and they're both power, ultimately. One is not having it and one is abusing it.

Joss Whedon

Some of the world's most appalling abuses have been justified by religion because it is possible for people to find vindication in their scriptures for any of their prejudices.

Zac Goldsmith

I loved the Cure and Bauhaus and the Smiths. The people in my town weren't privy to that kind of music and I got abused. I discovered the microphone to get out some of that angst.

Fred Durst

My father rebelled ferociously against his conservative upbringing where his father physically abused him.

Anthony Kiedis

If I'd had fame early on, I'd have been able to abuse it in the way that a young man should.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I work with The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. I sit proudly as one of only two recovering addicts on their board.

Jamie Lee Curtis

The affection of a child is like water in a sieve.

Breton

The parson christens his own child first.

Creole

An elephant's head is no load for a child.

Sierra Leonean

The elephant's head is no load for a child.

Sierra Leonean

A house without a child is like a tomb.

Sanskrit

A child is a certain sorrow and uncertain joy.

Swedish

By crawling, a child learns to stand.

West African

Blame or credit, does not belong to the child alone. Parents, those who raised the child, must be given equal credit, or blame. That does not change, when the child is one, twenty or ninety years old.

Coming to Astoria: An Immigrant's Tale

Whether you're explaining where pets go when they die or teaching your child to recycle, your philosophies have ramifications. For the rest of history, echos of your voice will be heard.

Great with Child: Letters to a Young Mother

The child is father of the man….attributed to Sigmund Freud, but believed to have been coined by a well-known poet years before Freud's time

Knowing Your Child Through His Handwriting and Drawings