Child 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. A familiar Gusism was to greet a friend with 'Hello, don't be a cunt all your life.

Keith Richards

#3. Any player that says they don't want to go to an All-Star Game is lying to you. It's something everyone wants to be a part of.

Derek Jeter

#4. 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

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

Erin Merryn

#6. Leadership is the ability to lift and inspire.

Paul Dietzel

#7. O my soul, I am now addressing myself to the greatest work that ever a creature was employed about - I am going into the solemn presence of God about business of everlasting importance!

John Flavel

#8. I have no bones to pick and no fight with society. And I'm willing to be and interested in being in the mainstream of society.

Christopher Reeve

#9. It is time that beats in the breast and it is time
That batters against the mind, silent and proud,
The mind that knows it is destroyed by time.

Wallace Stevens

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. You won't believe it but
I quench my thirst
by drinking from a mirage.

Abbas Kiarostami

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

Carolyn Byers Ruch