Preventable Causes Quotes

#1. As the ACE study has shown, child abuse and neglect is the single most preventable cause of mental illness, the single most common cause of drug and alcohol abuse, and a significant contributor to leading causes of death such as diabetes, heart disease, cancer, stroke, and suicide.

Bessel A. Van Der Kolk

#2. God is not a magic eight ball we shake up and peer into whenever we have a decision to make. He is a good God who gives us brains, shows us the way of obedience, and invites us to take risks for him.

Kevin DeYoung

#3. My mother's Mohawk and my father is Scottish/German from Nova Scotia.

Kaniehtiio Horn

#4. It's going to be a night of partying and heavy drinking. Or as Charlie Sheen calls it: Breakfast.

Ricky Gervais

#5. Priests, she insisted, could not sin. It was a thing impossible. Everything that they did, and wished, was of course right. She hoped I would see the reasonableness and duty of the oaths I was to take, and be faithful to them.

Maria Monk

#6. There are damn few great writers and I'm not one of them. While I could afford to I played with words. When I could no longer afford that I wrote for money.

Rex Stout

#7. The Reformers, therefore, as instruments in the hands of God, in delivering the Church from bondage to prelates, did not make it a tumultuous multitude, in which every man was a law to himself, free to believe, and free to do what he pleased.

Charles Hodge

#8. When I was growing up, hand washing was a ritual, but now it's a necessity. A child dies every 15 seconds from preventable causes, which has got to stop.

Kajol

#9. We used to really feel like the band was our family.

Chris Frantz

#10. We shall some day catch an abstract truth by the tail, and then we shall have our religion and our immortality.

Henry Adams

#11. Her courage frightens and amazes me. It make me hopeful for her. Is that what you call love? Is that what you call hope?

Rene Denfeld

#12. Shockingly, the hot, hetero, single manny is like a red panda. Rarely spotted in the wild.

Lauren Blakely

#13. You're a monster that mothers threaten children with and you're still touchy as an ugly girl in a pretty dress.

Caitlin Kittredge

#14. It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires.

Ed Markey

#15. For over 20 years, the federal and provincial governments have made enormous efforts employing a variety of approaches in an attempt to stimulate Montreal's economy.

Kim Campbell

#16. We really tried hard not to make it a cricket book, it appeals to a much wider community.

Hansie Cronje

#17. When a jumbo jet crashes, we will rush in with assistance, but we forget that each day 30,000 children die unnecessarily from poverty-related preventable causes - equivalent to 100 jumbo jets crashing every day.

Benjamin Mkapa

#18. Great power constitutes its own argument, and it never has much trouble drumming up friends, applause, sympathetic exegesis, and a band.

Bill Vaughan