Abuse Prevention Quotes

#1. We also want to make sure Penn State becomes a national leader in this whole area of child abuse prevention and treatment.

Rodney Erickson

#2. The entrance into the family of an outside professional with legal authority is always a crisis-ridden event, but it may be the best insurance that the incest will not continue.

Janis Tyler Johnson

#3. Unfortunately, there's no surefire way to prevent sexual assault.

Jennifer Marsh

#4. Stop hating on a n*gga that is a weak emotion, the lady of a n*gga.

Lil' Wayne

#5. We can have a large impact on the prevention and amelioration of abuse, drug problems, violence, mental health problems, and dysfunction in families.

Steven C. Hayes

#6. I was just four when a hired teenage field hand attempted to molest me. Miraculously, I got away, and I told my dad. My father made three important choices that day: He listened to me, he believed me, and he took action. I was one of the fortunate ones
I had a childhood.

Carolyn Byers Ruch

#7. The fact that the author thinks slowly is not serious, but the fact that he publishes faster than he thinks is inexcusable.

Wolfgang Pauli

#8. And Ana remembered her father's words, Say no! Run! Tell me!

Carolyn Byers Ruch

#9. Protecting our kids from sexual abuse is not accomplished in a single conversation, but in ongoing conversations grounded in honesty and trust.

Carolyn Byers Ruch

#10. Don't put your child at risk. Limit unsupervised one-on-one time between your child & another adult or another child.

Carolyn Byers Ruch

#11. I had heard about Cheers, of course, but I never watched it. So I watched two episodes, and I was like, "Oh my God. This is really good."

David Lee

#12. After using four different languages on an album, it's tough to decide which one I'm gonna actually learn to speak. I always study the lyric, make sure I know what I'm singing, and try to get the pronunciation as perfect as possible.

Josh Groban

#13. Photography is a strange phenomenon ... You trust your eye and cannot help but bare your soul.

Inge Morath

#14. A child has a greater chance of being sexually abused than burned in a fire. Along with stop, drop, and roll we must teach them to yell, run, and tell.

Carolyn Byers Ruch

#15. When we talk with our children about sexual abuse, we are not only taking a proactive step toward protecting them, we are building our relationship with them
grounded in honesty and trust. It's a win-win situation.

Carolyn Byers Ruch

#16. Wit in women is apt to have bad consequences; like a sword without a scabbard, it wounds the wearer and provokes assailants.

Elizabeth Montagu

#17. Sometimes I hesitate to use the term sexual abuse. It conjures up worst-case scenarios in our minds, and we think, "That will never happen to my kids." And we never begin the conversation regarding sexual abuse with our children. But one violation left in secret can cause significant pain.

Carolyn Byers Ruch

#18. Adults need to teach the children they love about sexual abuse so they know what to do if they encounter it. We need to prepare them so they know who to tell, should a violation occur, so they don't have to live with a painful secret, long into adulthood.

Carolyn Byers Ruch

#19. By opening the door to my life, it is my hope and mission to shed light on the hidden wounds of abuse, to end the stigma and shame associated with abuse, and to show survivors true courage, strength, inspiration, and determination.

Erin Merryn

#20. A demand on self to add value is a kind of pressure that causes increase

Sunday Adelaja

#21. When Sam Snead was asked how to putt, he said, 'Putt for one hundred dollars'.

Bob Schieffer

#22. Build a bridge over shame by teaching kids about sexual abuse. Give them a chance to run to us should they encounter it. Be their hero.

Carolyn Byers Ruch

#23. Human nature has no bottom. It is as deep and mysterious as the mind of God.

Stephen King

#24. The only secrets that are good are the ones with an ending. Keep surprises instead of secrets in your home.

Carolyn Byers Ruch

#25. Imagine, pretend, and play so you can become anyone you want to be. You don't need to be afraid.

Carolyn Byers Ruch

#26. Though no longer living in silence, I continued to carry pain and memories.

Erin Merryn

#27. If someone would have talked in school about safe touch and unsafe touch, I believe I would have spoken up as a child and not been victimized over and over again for years, but that day never came, which is why my mission now is to protect children from the childhood I could not be protected from.

Erin Merryn

#28. The best things that happen I'd never have thought to pray for. In a million years. The worst things just come like the weather.

Marilynne Robinson

#29. Be cunning, and full of tricks, and your people will never be destroyed.

Richard Adams