Unwanted Children Quotes

#1. Heterosexuals get drunk and pregnant, producing unwanted children; their reward is to be allowed to marry. Homosexual couples do not produce unwanted children; their reward is to be denied the right to marry. Go figure.

Richard Posner

#2. The nurse pointed out that identical twins were already clones in a sense, and Mother Emmanuel suggested that the soul to worry about belonged to the person who would have himself cloned at great expense when so many unwanted children were going hungry.

Mark Salzman

#3. It stands to reason that unloved and unwanted children are going to get into crime.

Andrew Young

#4. Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers' suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions and unwanted children.

Gro Harlem Brundtland

#5. Not selfish things, not things for herself; who could give to unwanted children love, care, a home. All these things she could buy for them, but not their love for her. Then

Agatha Christie

#6. Now, sprawled comfortably in his motel bed, Anson Sharp enjoyed the sleep of the amoral, which is far deeper and more restful than the sleep of the just, the righteous, and the innocent.

Dean Koontz

#7. It's a commonly known fact that while cats can't stand ghosts, spiders love them.

Jonathan Stroud

#8. Thinking about the heartbreaking number of young children around the world who think they are unwanted and are uncared for can easily keep you awake at night.

Stephanie March

#9. There are so many issues in society - we talk about the violence, the drugs, the unwanted pregnancies - but at the end of the day, it comes down to what we taught our children to be.

Allan Houston

#10. Goes to war, still encourages the production of unwanted C3 children by exhausted mothers, and still compels married partners who hate one another to live together in the name of morality.

Vera Brittain

#11. Don't hurt him. (Geary)
Do you think I came all the way over here to hurt him? If I'd wanted him hurt, I'd have left him to Tweedle Dumb and Dumber. (ZT)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#12. Let us make that one point - that no child will be unwanted, unloved, uncared for, or killed and thrown away.

Mother Teresa

#13. Sometimes I don't know what I am. But what I would like to be on the outside -- what I want other people to see -- is a girl.

Alyssa Brugman

#14. I guess I am not naturally energetic. I like to sit around and talk.

Calvin Coolidge

#15. Do we know our poor people? Do we know the poor in our house, in our family? Perhaps they are not hungry for a piece of bread. Perhaps our children, husband, wife, are not hungry, or naked, or dispossessed, but are you sure there is no one there who feels unwanted, deprived of affection?

Mother Teresa

#16. But wouldn't we see more women willing to give their children life if they'd seen with their own eyes what an adoption culture looks like? And wouldn't these mothers and fathers, who may themselves feel unwanted, be a bit more ready to hear our talk about a kingdom where all are welcomed?

Russell D. Moore

#17. I believe that life is valuable, even when it is unwanted, even when it is physically imperfect. I believe our society has a responsibility to defend the vulnerable and the weak. And I believe our nation should set a goal that unborn children should be welcomed in life and protected in law.

George W. Bush

#18. The goal of being alive is to figure out what it means to be alive.

Chuck Klosterman

#19. You have to be open to the energy. If you can open your heart to the energy, that great love energy, of this entire universe, good things will happen to you. BUT, you've gotta believe. You've gotta believe in the goodness.

Ray Manzarek

#20. If you don't pay attention to the things that have your attention, you'll give them more attention than they deserve.

David Allen

#21. My mother talked about the stories I used to spin as a child of three, before I started school. I would tell this story about what school I went to and what uniform I wore and who I talked to at lunchtime and what I ate, and my mother was like, 'This girl does not even go to school.'

Lupita Nyong'o

#22. We know that no one should tell a woman she has to bear an unwanted child. We know that religious beliefs cannot define patriotism.

Walter Cronkite

#23. It is important for a father who feels pushed away [by the mom] to say, in effect, When you do that, I feel unwanted as a father, or I feel my rough-housing is not bad parenting; it's my contribution to helping our child take risks. Women cannot hear what men do not say.

Warren Farrell

#24. This work is a torture on the rump but a joy to the heart.

Eduardo Galeano

#25. Just because someone throws their success in your face doesn't mean you have to let it get in your eyes.

Charles F. Glassman

#26. I want you to have this feeling too - it is my moral responsibility to help you achieve this inner freedom.

Dmitri Mendeleev

#27. Do old people always live in the past? What yesterday was firm and true, may not be so today.

Franz Grillparzer

#28. The whole message God wants to tell us is that if we want to experience God, we must first abandon our thoughts and then start thinking His.

K.P. Yohannan

#29. The control of your mind is most important, and it will be worth your while. You must think deeply. Clear your mind of all bad, unwanted thoughts

William O'Brien

#30. People always want to identify a writer with their protagonist.

Monica Ali