Quotes About Protecting Our Children

#1. Every week I counsel young people from solid Christian homes who are undone by their sin. As parents, we are sometimes more invested in protecting our children from the sinful influences of this world than we are in preparing them for the deep sinfulness of their own hearts.

Barbara R. Duguid

#2. In addition, to punishing sexual offenders and protecting our children, we must also provide services, resources and counseling to the people who are victims of these horrible crimes.

Jim Costa

#3. Women are, in my view, natural peacemakers. As givers and nurturers of life, through their focus on human relationships and their engagement with the demanding work of raising children and protecting family life, they develop a deep sense of empathy that cuts through to underlying human realities.

Daisaku Ikeda

#4. Children have their own kind of power. When you're teaching them, protecting them, you are more than you thought you could be. More understanding, more patient, more capable, more wise.

Jim Butcher

#5. It means protecting people, showing loving concern for each and every person, especially children, the elderly, those in need, who are often the last we think about.

Pope Francis

#6. That's all about the natural order of things, the idea of nature protecting children but also children protecting nature.

Hugh Jackman

#7. In case of separation, why should the children be taken from the protecting care of the mother? Who has a better right to them than she? How much do fathers generally do toward bringing them up?

Ernestine Rose

#8. I find it completely irrational to say someone who stands up for life for children is taking the life of adult. It's completely inconsistent with the values of the pro-life movement that are very passionate about protecting life, not taking life.

James Lankford

#9. Women have always been courageous ... They are always fearless when protecting their children and in the last century they have been fearless in the fight for their rights.

Isabel Allende

#10. Americans have the mistaken viewpoint that Lady Liberty is only a peacetime luxury who is ill-equipped to fight the nasties. Therefore, they reason, we need an equally nasty Big Brother. Americans have forgotten that Lady Liberty is one ferocious mother when protecting her children.

Mary Ruwart

#11. Have times really changed? Don't we today, as always, love our children and want them to live righteously? Don't we today, as always, need God's divine protecting care? Don't we today, as always, continue to be at his mercy and in his debt for the very life he has given us?

Thomas S. Monson

#12. I've always said that you were too smart to have a profession. Smart people are hopeless in the face of anything actual. They are terrible cooks. They cannot dress themselves. They are children who need guidance and protecting.

Heidi Julavits

#13. When we talk with our children about sexual abuse, we are not only taking a proactive step toward protecting them, we are building our relationship with them
grounded in honesty and trust. It's a win-win situation.

Carolyn Byers Ruch

#14. For the sake of our health, our children and grandchildren and even our economic well-being, we must make protecting the planet our top priority.

David Suzuki

#15. We're so preoccupied with protecting children from disappointment and discomfort that we're inadvertently excusing them from growing up.

LZ Granderson

#16. Protecting our kids from sexual abuse is not accomplished in a single conversation, but in ongoing conversations grounded in honesty and trust.

Carolyn Byers Ruch

#17. Could it be that by protecting our kids from unhappiness as children, we're depriving them of happiness as adults?

Lori Gottlieb

#18. The schools play an important role when it comes down to protecting children against violence.Violence is one of the principal reasons why children don't go to school. It's also one of the causes of the alarming school dropout rates.

Shakira

#19. What would it be like to feel so attached, so intrinsically bonded, so protective of one's own best connection with time and the ages, of generations past and future, of another human life, of their time?

J.R. Tompkins

#20. Citizens continue to demand government help in fighting cybercrime, defending children from stalkers and bullies, and protecting consumers.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#21. I think that protecting children at the age where they're most vulnerable against diseases that are highly contagious is prudent.

Eula Biss

#22. Protecting the environment is really important to everyone's welfare - that of our children, as well as that of the future generations.

Yaya Toure

#23. Protecting children and vulnerable workers abroad is a part of our overall efforts here at the Department of Labor.

Hilda Solis

#24. The Grimm collections were never intended for children. Not because kids were excluded, but because the division we make today of children's literature didn't exist then. The idea of protecting children from tales with violence didn't occur until the earlier part of the 19th century.

Jack Zipes

#25. There is no greater warrior than a mother protecting her child.

N.K. Jemisin

#26. It's hard to know which made me more aware of the impossibility of protecting children - having a child die or having had two live.

Elizabeth McCracken

#27. Being a mother is about protecting your children from every conceivable thing that might cause them hurt, but it's also about trusting them to live the best way for them, the best way they can; and trusting that even when you are not there to hold their hand, they can succeed.

Rowan Coleman

#28. A child is not a bargaining chip or a learning tool. Your focus, if you adopt a child of a different race, should be on nurturing and protecting your child from bigotry, not deploying him or her as an anti-racist Mr. Fix-It.

Mallory Ortberg

#29. Sometimes guns really matter. Protecting those who need protection - children, women, minorities in rough parts of town, old folks living in places where cops aren't nearby. Guns are true empowerment for the powerless.

Maya Angelou

#30. Parents are the weak link in the chain when it comes to protecting their children.

Donna Rice Hughes

#31. The service members who defend our way of life ask very little in return, but they deserve teachers who will be as relentless in teaching their children as the military is in protecting our interests at home and abroad.

Tucker Elliot

#32. This is about saving children's lives. It is not about agencies and services protecting themselves.

Rosie Batty

#33. I'm a mother lion when it comes to protecting my children.

Joanna Cassidy

#34. Children have fewer rights than almost any other group and fewer institutions protecting these rights. Consequently, their voices and needs are almost completely absent from the debates, policies, and legislative practices that are constructed in terms of their needs.

Henry A. Giroux

#35. From a parent's right to know what their children are doing, to protecting citizens across the country from the growing threat of gang violence, the House Democrat leadership is simply out to lunch.

Virginia Foxx

#36. An honorable man protects whoever needs protecting, but children above all, and women above men.

Robert Jordan

#37. We've educated children to think that spontaneity is inappropriate. Children are willing to expose themselves to experiences. We aren't. Grownups always say they protect their children, but they're really protecting themselves. Besides, you can't protect children. They know everything.

Maurice Sendak

#38. I certainly believe in limited government but protecting children against injury abuse is certainly inside my sphere of things that the government should do.

Mitch Daniels

#39. UNICEF is successfully giving children and young people all over the world opportunities and hope. Just like the ones we met on the Long Way Down - protecting them from exploitation and giving them chances in life.

Ewan McGregor

#40. There's nothing stronger than a woman protecting her child

Kristen Stewart

#41. Why can't a democrat get fired up about protecting the environment and enacting gun control legislation just as right wing republicans get fired up about making sure that children have access to assault weapons and banning 'the catcher in the rye' and 'harry potter'?

Moby

#42. When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think.

Patricia Schroeder