Quotes of: Child-abuse Keyword

Jack Holloway told me he would get the son of a bitch who killed my child and the mate of my child," Papa continued. "Jack Holloway did get that son of a bitch. Jack Holloway got you. You are the man who killed my child. Get off my planet, you son of...

Fuzzy Nation

Time does not really exist for mothers, with regard to their children. It does not matter greatly how old the child is-in the blink of an eye, a mother can see the child again as they were when they were born, when they learned how to walk, as they w...

Diana Gabaldon

Children who are victimized through sexual abuse often begin to develop deeply held tenets that shape their sense of self: 'My worth is my sexuality. I'm dirty and shameful. I have no right to my own physical boundaries.' That shapes their ideas abou...

Girls Like Us: Fighting for a World Where Girls are Not for Sale, an Activist Finds Her Calling and Heals Herself

The central attitudes driving the Victim are: Everybody has done me wrong, especially the women I’ve been involved with. Poor me. When you accuse me of being abusive, you are joining the parade of people who have been cruel and unfair to me. It pro...

Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men

Boys’ aggressiveness is increasingly being treated as a medical problem, particularly in schools, a trend that has led to the diagnosing and medicating of boys whose problem may really be that they have been traumatized and influenced by exposure t...

Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men

If you don't learn to laugh at life it'll surely kill you, that I know.

The Child Thief

We're assigned to children who are doomed.

Frankie's Angel: A Child's Tale of Loss and Recovery

For in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that will be.

The Book of Lost Things

Soon never comes soon enough to a young child.

Naamah's Blessing

There is no slavery but ignorance. Liberty is the child of intelligence.

The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child

Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.

George Orwell

Once I started dancing, I was not the spoiled brat or the rebellious child that I was as a child.

Suzanne Farrell

I don't perform well in private. Socially, I mean. And I didn't as a child. Actors aren't necessarily outgoing, are they?

Lindsay Duncan

I was an unhappy child, and that puts me off having a child of my own.

Meg Cabot

I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy.

Marilyn Monroe

If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Bette Davis

Sending your child off to school for the first time in their life is terrifying.

Arabella Weir

If you are going to tell a story about a child going missing, it's going to have similarities with a real life child going missing.

James Nesbitt

I want to give a child a life who wouldn't be given a life. I want a child that nobody else wants.

Madonna Ciccone

If I was madly in love with someone who offered the opportunity to spend our lives together, I would love to have a child or adopt a child.

Charlie Rose

Nobody truly becomes an adult. The child we have been is always there, deep inside of us. As time passes, we think we're growing, but maturity is only an illusion; a hindrance to our free child soul.

Jirō Taniguchi