Byers Quotes

#1. Rebecca Byers, the comm officer on duty, could have been bred from a shark and a hatchet.

James S.A. Corey

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

Carolyn Byers Ruch

#3. One thing I learned particularly at Yale was how to work with others. Having studied so long trying to master myself, the biggest challenge was learning about the other person's work.

Trai Byers

#4. 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

#5. I don't much like it when people commit unsavory acts and try to shift the blame onto me.

Richard Lee Byers

#6. Someone's going to be able to take good care of my sister. She knows how to be taken care of.

Trai Byers

#7. There are many different forms of bipolar and the way that it expresses itself.

Trai Byers

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. Are you always so cynical?' said Angelica.
'No,' said Katherine. 'Sometimes I'm asleep.

Sam Byers

#11. Ultimately, knowing God and reading the Word, it helps with patience with people, understanding, empathy and sympathy that they might not have that I have. If God gave it to me, why not exercise it?

Trai Byers

#12. Our lives intersect and interfere and there is no telling where certain beauties might come from. Some song in her heart where otherwise there wouldn't have been one and in Sarah's too passed on down.

Michael Byers

#13. 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

#14. We need to pay attention to each other. We are our brother's keepers. We are our sister's keepers.

Trai Byers

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

Carolyn Byers Ruch

#16. In 2013, I didn't work at all, just contemplating what I needed to do, whether I was walking in my destiny or not.

Trai Byers

#17. First, think of the color of clouds. Next think of the color of snow. Last, think of the color of the moon. Now, what do cows drink? GO

Amanda Byers

#18. 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

#19. There was, Katherine speculated, no possible way of concealing his Englishness, or any English person's Englishness for that matter. You could spot them immediately - pasty white; muffin bellied; Rorschached with quasi-Celtic tattoos.

Sam Byers

#20. I've read the Bible before, a couple of times cover to cover.

Trai Byers

#21. I have family members that are bipolar.

Trai Byers

#22. I'm an artist with a message, and my message is more for society, casting the mirror onto them and saying, 'Hey, this is what we look like, what are we going to do about it, how are we going to use what we've been through to aid where we're going.'

Trai Byers

#23. A healthy Christian life cannot be stitched together from a series of disjointed mountain-top experiences. We need a Christian spirituality that endures the shadowy, low-lying valleys and the rocky slopes in between all those glorious summits.

Andrew Byers

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

Carolyn Byers Ruch

#25. I'm really passionate about God and religion, and I thought maybe I'm supposed to be a pastor.

Trai Byers

#26. Betrayal does so many different things to people.

Trai Byers

#27. When I think of Kansas, I think of family.

Trai Byers

#28. I'm an old soul. I like the Nat King Cole; Sam Cooke is my favorite singer of all time. But I'm into neo-soul; I'm into R&B. Some of the modern stuff appeals to me, but most of it comes from an older time.

Trai Byers

#29. Now here he was: sartorially, facially and interpersonally sharpened; every inch the beatific boffin.

Sam Byers

#30. His relationship with illness was flirtatious; only a particularly attractive ailment could tempt him into bed.

Sam Byers

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

Carolyn Byers Ruch

#32. God is building an army all over the place, in Hollywood as well. So it feels good to be a part of it.

Trai Byers

#33. Live, laugh, and love!! Blessings!!

Trai Byers

#34. Sexual abuse injects poisonous lies into its victims' hearts and minds. "You're not worthy" is one of them.

Carolyn Byers Ruch

#35. 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

#36. I do have musical background; I sing.

Trai Byers

#37. I'm supposed to share the Lord with people. All of us are disciples on some level. You don't have to be behind the podium to tell a story, connect with people and share the Gospel.

Trai Byers

#38. Bipolar disorder is so swept under the rug as a nation and, I think especially, by black people. It's not our culture to go get therapy. 'Give them medicine for what?' We put people in court, put them in court again, versus really paying attention to what it is they are going through.

Trai Byers

#39. Peace is the key to unlocking good people.

William Kennedy Byers

#40. 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