Quotes About Children's Mental Health

#1. He then put both hands on the door on either side of my head and leaned in close, pinning me against it. I trembled like a downy rabbit caught in the clutches of a wolf. The wolf came closer. He bent his head and began nuzzling my cheek. The problem was ... I wanted the wolf to devour me.

Colleen Houck

#2. Childhood trauma is not necessarily a prophecy of doom, because some children are resilient or because later experiences help to restore mental health.

Richard Bentall

#3. Some people never find love at all, count yourself blessed if it ever happens your way

Ellen Hopkins

#4. 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

#5. Hunger and malnutrition have devastating consequences for children and have been linked to low birth weight and birth defects, obesity, mental and physical health problems, and poorer educational outcomes.

Marian Wright Edelman

#6. I've always believed everything was about protecting the Clinton power structure and anyone would be sacrificed who got in the way of that.

Gennifer Flowers

#7. Until recently, most environmental organizations offered only token attention to children. Perhaps their lack of zeal stems from an unconscious ambivalence about children, who symbolize or represent overpopulation. So goes the unspoken mantra: We have met the enemy and it is our progeny.

Richard Louv

#8. A lot of people believe that mental illness does not affect our children within the school system. But the truth is that a lot of bullying stems from untreated or poorly treated mental and behavioral health problems.

Tamara Hill

#9. What this means is that children, homemakers, executives, farmers, and long-living persons can all have high ego strength and good mental health if they possess the courage, humor, and flexibility of equilibrium between their rational and metaphoric minds.

Bob Samples

#10. A child's mental health is just as important as their physical health.

Kate Middleton

#11. The parent-child connection is the most powerful mental health intervention known to mankind.

Bessel Van Der Kolk

#12. My most visible goal is to do something in nutrition to children in India, and pregnant mothers. Because that would change the mental and physical health of our population in years to come.

Ratan Tata

#13. The Lourie Center is an important model to consider ... (in) mental health care ... It is imperative that we use this knowledge to help ensure that every young child in our society has the opportunity to get an emotionally healthy start in life.

Tipper Gore

#14. Can you imagine how your life would be if you couldn't talk?

Naoki Higashida

#15. Sidekick? Fuck you, porky.

Julie James

#16. I wish I was more stupid because I'm either completely ecstatic and joyous and absolutely high as a kite or I'm a bit morbid. There's never anything in between.

Paloma Faith

#17. A great business investment, religion. I'll take it over government bonds anytime.

Ron Rash

#18. a manual for how to build a mentally ill child

David Foster Wallace

#19. You have to be talentedly insecure in order to be a good actress. And then it's the director's job to make you more miserable and get a good take.

Shirley Maclaine

#20. The great thing about small children is they're portable, so we take them everywhere, but when it comes to 2015, Zachary's going to school, and I want to be there to drop him off and pick him up. I don't want to just be the father who reads them a bedtime story.

Elton John

#21. Ah. How's your leg where I stabbed you?" "It hurts." "Good.

Jennifer A. Nielsen

#22. It's a great honor ... and it's an honor to be with her majesty, obviously ... I'm very honored to be given this honor.
(upon receiving the OBE)

David Beckham

#23. Children are living beings - more living than grown-up people who have built shells of habit around themselves. Therefore it is absolutely necessary for their mental health and development that they should not have mere schools for their lessons, but a world whose guiding spirit is personal love.

Rabindranath Tagore

#24. There is no help from without, only from within.

James Cook

#25. Children whose parents return to study do much better at school. Offenders who persist with studies are much less likely to reoffend. The national mental health strategy recognises the important role adult learning can play for people recovering from mental illness.

David Blunkett

#26. Humanity is undergoing, in the post-Cold War era, an economic and social crisis of unprecedented scale leading to the rapid impoverishment of large sectors of the world population.

Michel Chossudovsky

#27. More than 35 percent of the children exposed to a single traumatic event will develop serious mental health problems .. The real crisis of Katrina is the hundreds of thousands of ravaged, displaced and traumatized children.

Bruce D. Perry

#28. Who is here with you?"
"Don't stop," she begged.
"Who is here with you?" he repeated, harshly this time.
"You are."
"What is my name?"
"Reyes

Gena Showalter

#29. Big Brother is on the march. A plan to subject all children to mental health screening is underway, and the pharmaceuticals are gearing up for bigger sales of psychotropic drugs.

Phyllis Schlafly