Child Protective Quotes

#1. When you want a break from dogs, and you take them to the kennel to the stars, no one thinks you're a bad pet owner. But when you have kids, you can't drop them off for three weeks without someone calling Child Protective Services!

Gabrielle Union

#2. No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist.

Andrew Vachss

#3. When we don't fund Child Protective Services, there are consequences for all of us. Violence manifests itself. Mental health services in Texas are extremely poor. The answer is not to wait until they do something to get them help.

David Atwood

#4. I did criminal defense work part-time, and that paid the bills for representing abused and neglected children ... and for defending in juvenile court those kids the 'child protective system' had missed when it had the chance.

Andrew Vachss

#5. Child Protective Services, all over the country, need to be revamped top to bottom.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

#6. Reforming public education, cutting property taxes, fixing adult and child protective services and funding our budget can all occur when Democrats and Republicans engage in consensus and cooperation - not cynicism and combat.

Rick Perry

#7. Standing in the small space, Holly was overwhelmed by memories and a strange protective feeling for the child she'd been

Beth Harbison

#8. He'd wanted someone to see him. To see past his reputation ... He wanted to be seen not as flawless, but as himself, faults and all.

Courtney Milan

#9. Fact: Girls who are having a good sex thing stay in New York. The rest want to spend their summer vacations in Europe.

Gail Parent

#10. I never knew how protective I was until I had my own child. I'm already thinking about intruders coming into the house and what our escape route would be.

Jessica Simpson

#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. Because I'm attracted to you. Because you're the poster child for contradictions and I enjoy each one of them. You're funny when you're being so damn serious. You have a kind heart and protective nature that reminds me so much of my father.

N.D. Jones

#13. I think when you are an only child, parents are more protective and fearful because they've only got one of you. I was not allowed to do a lot of things that, if I'd been, say, number three, I would have.

Rosamund Pike

#14. She had the power to remove a child from an unkind parent and she sometimes did. But remove herself from an unkind husband? When she was weak and desolate? Where was her protective judge?

Ian McEwan

#15. Most people leave this world without leaving any mark on, it isn't because they were lazy, but because they were working hard with their focus dispensed in many things.

Divine K. Kpe

#16. Being a bestseller doesnt mean they wrote a great book. Just means they knew a lot of people who would buy it.

David A. Santos

#17. Money was made for the free-hearted and generous.

John Ray

#18. I just like looking at nice things. And want to touch them with my mouth.

T.J. Klune

#19. She is the kind of child who feels a protective tenderness toward her own beginnings. It is part of her strategy in a world of displacements to make every effort to restore and preserve, keep things together for their value as remembering objects, a way of fastening herself to a life.

Don DeLillo

#20. Coffee is to a Writer as Blood is to a Vampire!

Kade Cook

#21. Porter is my eldest child, and I tended to be fiercely protective when he was criticized. He actually was not a big complainer about school. Simply selective in what he chose to do and say.

Susan Shreve

#22. Women have always been seen as waiting: waited to be asked, waiting for our menses, in fear lest they do or do not come, waiting for men to come home from wars, or from work, waiting for children to grow up, or for the birth of a new child, or for menopause.

Adrienne Rich

#23. Nothing ever fits the palm so perfectly, or feels so right, or inspires so much protective instinct as the hand of a child

Gregory David Roberts

#24. But there was something telling about that photograph, I thought; our protective glass frame shattered and now here we were, punctured with microscopic holes that might one day tear. Those holes all had names: mortgage, adolescent child, lack of communication, retirement savings, cancer.

Mary Kubica

#25. In any case, the point is not to try to get rid of thoughts, but rather to see their true nature. Thoughts will run us around in circles if we buy into them, but really they are like dream images. They are like an illusion - not really all that solid. They are, as we say, just thinking.

Pema Chodron

#26. By the time I was five, I was a little diva.

Stevie Nicks

#27. I had to force myself not to be overly protective because I had lost one child.

Diane Ladd

#28. I think it's a Blondie tradition that all of our albums sort of have a wide spread of styles.

Debbie Harry