Quotes About Child Abandonment

#1. To the child, abandonment by its parents is the equivalent of death.

M. Scott Peck

#2. Usually this desire [for family limitation] has been laid to economic pressure It has asserted itself among the rich and among the poor, among the intelligent and the unintelligent. It
has been manifested in such horrors as infanticide, child abandonment and abortion.

Margaret Sanger

#3. Once upon a time, if you wanted to talk about the notion of child abandonment, of a mother not being a good mother, that's built into the mother who sends the babes into the woods, and they use the bits of bread or stones to come home again.

Isobelle Carmody

#4. I think about the personal accomplishment, but there's more of a sense of the grand achievement by all the people who could put this man on the moon.

Alan Shepard

#5. Birth mothers choose life, and a family, for their child. But this choice is rarely celebrated. Women routinely face family, friends and even health-care providers who think that adoption equals abandonment, according to researchers and conversations with birth mothers.

Nina Easton

#6. They say that abandonment is a wound that never heals. I say only that an abandoned child never forgets.

Mario Balotelli

#7. It's true that God wants us to grow in our knowledge and obedience of him, but he never wants us to stop living with the humility, trust, and the absolute abandonment of a child.

Caleb Breakey

#8. Though situations and circumstances arise which sometimes test our faith and patience, the Lord can be trusted to see us through.

Roderick L. Evans

#9. Real assistance is to help people to help themselves. We can't do everything for everybody, but there is room for all who try to make it.

Gerald R. Ford

#10. The line between sacred and secular is man-made.

Sarah Bessey

#11. And when you crush an apple with your teeth, say to it in your heart:
Your seeds shall live in my body,
And the buds of your tomorrow shall blossom in my heart,
And your fragrance shall be my breath,
And together we shall rejoice through all the seasons.

Kahlil Gibran

#12. At least he never walked.

Haruki Murakami

#13. A child. New life. Immune to evil or illness, protected from kidnap, beatings, rape, racism, insult, hurt, self-loathing, abandonment. Error-free. All goodness. Minus wrath. So they believe.

Toni Morrison

#14. Even where love has run thin the child's soul musters strength ... the rush of purpose to make a life worth living past abandonment building the layers up again over the torn hole.

Adrienne Rich

#15. All the sins of your life seem to be rising up against you. Don't give up hope! On the contrary, call your holy mother Mary, with the faith and abandonment of a child. She will bring peace to your soul.

Josemaria Escriva

#16. A true diamond never over shadows... it's the brilliance of the subtle shine that's the most attractive.

Dena Tyson

#17. These were our bedtime stories. Tales that haunted our parents and made them laugh at the same time. We never understood them until we were fully grown and they became our sole inheritance.

Edwidge Danticat

#18. As a young man, causes of one kind or another engaged me, and I thought the media is where you express yourself in that. I lived with the illusion, for quite a long time, that if you described something accurately, something would be done about it.

Jonathan Dimbleby

#19. Bistro cooking is good, traditional food, earnestly made and honestly displayed. It is earthy, provincial, or bourgeois; as befits that kind of food, it is served in ample portions.

David Liederman

#20. Freedom does that to people, he realizes. Once you've tasted it, ou never want to let go.

Allen Steele

#21. Time...a maniac scattering dust.

Alfred Tennyson

#22. I didn't know what was worse: to have your shot and screw it up, or to never have had a shot in the first place.

Danielle Paige

#23. I've seen the bottom and I know the difference between good golf and bad golf.

David Duval

#24. Those who live the most fully realized lives - giving back to their families, societies, and ultimately themselves - tend to find meaning in their obstacles.

Susan Cain

#25. Since the earliest period of our life was preverbal, everything depended on emotional interaction. Without someone to reflect our emotions, we had no way of knowing who we were.

John Bradshaw

#26. I believe the best service to the child is the service closest to the child, and children who are victims of neglect, abuse, or abandonment must not also be victims of bureaucracy. They deserve our devoted attention, not our divided attention.

Kenny Guinn