Quotes About Child Mortality

#1. Abortion is child mortality.

Chris Smith

#2. The child mortality revolution has used vaccines, treatments for diarrhea, micronutrients, and improved nutrition to reduce the number of child deaths worldwide each year from 20 million in 1960 to 6.6 million today - even as the number of children has risen.

Nicholas D. Kristof

#3. If your economy grows [by] 4 percent, you ought to reduce child mortality 4 percent.

Hans Rosling

#4. Child mortality [since 2000 is] down by 2.65 million a year. That's a rate of 7,256 children's lives saved each day ... It drives me nuts that most people don't seem to know this news.

Edward De Bono

#5. What could a child know of the darkness of God's plan? Or how flesh is so frail it is hardly more than a dream

Cormac McCarthy

#6. The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt.

Barack Obama

#7. Happiness, for me, is a function of the number of people I love, and I think joy and happiness is directly related to how many people are in our lives and how deeply we are bonded with those people.

Mitt Romney

#8. Ka thought it strangely depressing that the suicide girls had had to struggle to find a private moment to kill themselves. Even after swallowing their pills, even as they lay quietly dying, they'd had to share their rooms with others.

Orhan Pamuk

#9. We are at the tail end of a decline in infant mortality that began just over a century ago. Babies no longer wander into open hearths or are mauled by marauding pigs. We have vaccines, lead-free educational toys, diapers that can sop up a typhoon. But we have never been more worried.

Nicholas Day

#10. The first step is clearly defining what it is you're after, because without knowing that, you'll never get it.

Halle Berry

#11. I think human beings are almost, by definition, religious people,in the sense that we ask questions of meaning, we anticipate future events, we deal with the issues of mortality from the first time we see a dead bird as a little child.

John Shelby Spong

#12. Will having a newborn distract from the time we have together?" she asked. "Don't you think saying goodbye to your child will make your death more painful?"

"Wouldn't it be great if it did?" I said. Lucy and I both felt that life wasn't about avoiding suffering.

Paul Kalanithi

#13. Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping?

Anna Letitia Barbauld

#14. The people that I was working with made it all good for me - made it important to me - made it special. I will miss everyone in the Steelers organization.

Joe Greene

#15. He wasn't supposed to die,' he cried out, somewhat desperately, petulantly, like a spoiled child. But I could hear other thoughts racing between us.
Neither are you.
Neither am I.

Patti Smith

#16. Owing to the high infant mortality of the times, estimated at one or two in three, the investment of love in a young child may have been so unrewarding that by some ruse of nature, as when overcrowded rodents in captivity will not breed, it was suppressed.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#17. Fixed mindset is not amenable to change and growth.dogmatic,opinionated.Solution:Allow God and Gods.Let this mind that was in christ ...

Ikechukwu Joseph

#18. She gasped when she saw it. "I know," I said. "Grant, you're massive." I winked. "I know, Lacey," I said again. "I'm a mother-fucking monster.

Chance Carter

#19. I was interested in implements of mass destruction - from an academic point of view.

Dan Farmer

#20. If your Lord Supreme requests you to do something, rest assured he has already given you the capacity - even more than necessary - long before you actually need it.

Sri Chinmoy

#21. It doesn't work that way, you know, because most parts that you think you'd do well, most other people don't. So they offer you something - The Avengers is a good example ... I fitted into that because I came from that sort of background. It's not even acting.

Patrick Macnee