Annie Lennox Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I want to see my children grow up well.

  Annie Lennox

  Children, Growing Up, Writing

• We would like to see the virtual elimination of the transmission of [HIV] from mother to child by 2015. ... We believe it can be achieved with political will.

  Annie Lennox

  Mother, Children, Believe

• When you go to Africa, and you see children, they're usually barefoot, dirty and in rags, and they'd love to go to school.

  Annie Lennox

  Children, Dirty, School

• Something that's of common interest to every man, woman and child on the planet must surely be the notion of 'Peace'. Without 'Peace' we cannot survive. Valentine's Day is on the 14 February. Christmas Day is on the 25 December. Peace Day has been established by the United Nations on the 21 September, and the whole world is invited to participate.

  Annie Lennox

  Peace, Children, Valentine

• As a mother, you have that impulse to wish that no child should ever be hurt, or abused, or go hungry, or not have opportunities in life.

  Annie Lennox

  Mother, Hurt, Children

  "Wonder Woman feature of the week: 'Bri'". Interview with Monika Tournaud, www.mometc.com. June 15, 2015.

• It's a very telling thing when you have children. You have to be there for them, you've got to set an example, when you're not sure what your example is, and anyway the world is changing so fast you don't know what is appropriate anymore.

  Annie Lennox

  Children, Example, World

• I understand what it is for a woman to want to protect their children and give them the best they can.

  Annie Lennox

  Children, Giving, Want

  "Why Annie Lennox is ready to move on". Interview with Shanon Cook, edition.cnn.com. February 18, 2009.

• I'm an only child, you know, originally. I'm not a child anymore, but I certainly tend to spend a lot of time on my own.

  Annie Lennox

  Children, Only Child, My Own

• There's so much stigma around HIV/AIDS. It's a challenging issue, and the people that already have been tested and know their status find it very, very hard to disclose their status, to live with that virus, and to even seek out the kind of information they need. This experience of going to South Africa a decade ago really woke me up to the scale of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa, how it was affecting women and their children. I haven't been able to walk away from it.

  Annie Lennox

  Children, Issues, People

  "Annie Lennox + Dr. Mitch Besser". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• I have a reputation for being cold and aloof, but I'm so not that woman. I'm passionate. I love my girls, being with my girlfriends, getting involved with issues that affect other women and children who are suffering.

  Annie Lennox

  Girl, Children, Issues

• To try to help people have babies in a healthy way and to celebrate the process of delivering a child which will be healthy is, I think, almost the best part of healthcare.

  Annie Lennox

  Baby, Children, Thinking

  "Annie Lennox + Dr. Mitch Besser". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• I haven't lived my life through my daughters. Some parents devote everything to their children, which must be so hard, and it's very beautiful. But I'm a working parent, so I've always kept my own life.

  Annie Lennox

  Beautiful, Daughter, Children

• In the States, the HIV transmission from mother to child is almost completely preventable - the only mothers who really do transmit it are the ones who don't come in for care. If a mother in the United States or in Europe or in the UK comes to care and gets her medicines, she will have an HIV negative baby. Most people don't know that.

  Annie Lennox

  Mother, Baby, Children

  "Annie Lennox + Dr. Mitch Besser". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• Medicine comes with hope: the hope of having a healthy child, the hope of being able to raise your family.

  Annie Lennox

  Children, Medicine, Healthy

  "Annie Lennox + Dr. Mitch Besser". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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