The fight against child slavery is the fight against traditional mindset, policy deficit, and lack of accountability and urgency for children across the globe.
The tenacious character I've possessed since I was a small child propelled me to successfully meet this challenge, and I was able to safely gain acceptance to the university of my choice.
They say, once you have a child, your heart is forever outside your body. I totally understand that now.
Having a child doesn't make a woman a mother any more than owning a paintbrush makes her Frida Kahlo.
Organizing one's life to respond to a threat one felt powerless about as a child can be a source of enormous inspiration.
There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot.
To bring a child into the world that you cannot feed, clothe, house, and educate is the moral equivalent, in my opinion, of a drive-by shooting.
Since being quite young, I've had a very strong sense of independence and survival. As a child, I was on my own two feet emotionally.
The proper care and rearing of a child is integral to their development. It breaks my heart to know that some children's futures are being destroyed within their own homes.
After an 18-year career, I left the film industry, not wanting to become one of those child-actor cautionary tales.
I was a sidelines child: never class president, never team captain, never the one with the most valentines in my box.
People ask me whether I'd like another child, and it is difficult to answer, as I am so happy with the two I have.
A child playing with its father screams louder, laughs harder, jumps more eagerly, puts more faith in everything.
The law, in our case, seems to make the right; and the very reverse ought to be done - the right should make the law.
The key thing is that you start every film from sort of a blank page, almost like you discover it like a child discovers a new world.
I haven't got purity, and I don't think I ever did. I have always been, even as a child, a very decadent little person.
You wouldn't tolerate an underperforming surgeon in an operating theatre, or a underperforming midwife at your child's birth. Why is it that we tolerate underperforming teachers in the classroom?
As a child that is born into the world requires nourishment, so also the Christ that is born within is a babe and requires to be nourished to the full stature of manhood.
Every man, woman and child knows about Mugabe, but people say, 'Mogae, who is that?'
No child’s face is dirty even if it is muddy, because an innocent face has so much light that anything comes onto it becomes almost invisible!
Every time a war ends, under a beautiful sun, on the face of a crying child; I see a rainbow of hope over the innocent teardrops.
