Custody Quotes

• You are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life ... Your entire life ... Not just the life of your mind, but the life of your heart. Not just your bank account, but your soul.

  Anna Quindlen

  Heart, Soul, Mind

  Anna Quindlen (2002). “A Short Guide to a Happy Life”, Arrow/Children's (a Division of Random House Group)

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• Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.

  William Butler Yeats

  Senses

  Letter to Ellen O'Leary, February 03, 1889.

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• I certainly hadn't expected to walk away from today's trip with joint custody of a miniature dragon.

  Richelle Mead

  Dragons, Today, Joints

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.155, Penguin

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• Our children are better served by speaking not of visitation versus custody, but of parent time.

  Warren Farrell

  Time, Children, Parent

  "Father and Child Reunion: How to Bring the Dads We Need to the Children We Love". Book by Warren Farrell, 2001.

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• Short of preventing harm to the child, the standard of 'best interest of the child' is insufficient to serve as a compelling state interest overruling a parent's fundamental rights.... To suggest otherwise would be the logical equivalent to asserting that the state has the authority to break up stable families and redistribute its infant population to provide each child with the 'best family.' It is not within the province of the state to make significant decisions concerning the custody of children merely because it could make a 'better' decision.

  Barbara Madsen

  Children, Rights, Adoption

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• In the 5 years, well over 60,000 American families have been broken apart by the absence of insurance because the only way for parents to get treatment for their children is to turn the custody of those children over to the State.

  Patrick J. Kennedy

  Children, Years, Broken

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• I don't have children that I've lost in a bitter custody dispute. But I see an enormous wound in kids due to a lack of their dads.

  Warren Farrell

  Dad, Children, Kids

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• Are you calling me a weirdo? Highest honor I can bestow.

  Claudia Gray

  Honor, Calling, Weirdo

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• But I'm a great father. That's why I got custody.

  Kid Rock

  Father, Great Father

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• When they write about real stuff like my custody battle, that's no fun. Some things have leaked out about accusations that have gone back and forth and that's just mean. It's a tactic.

  Dean Cain

  Fun, Real, Writing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Every document, apparently ancient, coming from the proper repository or custody, and bearing on its face no evident marks of forger, the law presumes to be genuine, and devolves on the opposing party the burden of proving it to be otherwise.

  Simon Greenleaf

  Party, Law, Faces

  Simon Greenleaf (1847). “An Examination of the Testimony of the Four Evangelists by the Rules of Evidence Administered in Courts of Justice: With an Account of the Trial of Jesus”, p.7

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• The families of Aboriginals who have died in custody in NSW will suffer again because of these white lies.

  Arthur Murray

  Lying, White, Suffering

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• When people tell me that I became President on January 20th, 1981, I feel I have to correct them. You don't become President of the United States. You are given temporary custody of an institution called the Presidency, which belongs to our people.

  Ronald Reagan

  People, President, United States

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1991). “Ronald Reagan”

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• The abuse of detainees in U.S. custody has severely undermined our Nation's position in the world.

  Diane Watson

  Abuse, World, Position

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• The Child Custody Protection Act makes it a federal crime to transport a minor across state lines for the purpose of obtaining an abortion.

  Ken Calvert

  Children, Abortion, Purpose

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• When it comes to determining child custody, however, sexism is the rule.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Children, Sexism, Child Custody

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• I didn't expect to be doing a whole bunch of Amber Browns. And because it was just one book, and the father had moved away, I didn't realize I was going to have to deal more with shared custody, divorce and all those issues

  Paula Danziger

  Father, Book, Divorce

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• You have sole custody of your life. Who you are today is not who you have to be tomorrow. Embrace the possibility of transformation.

  Leeza Gibbons

  Deep Thought, Today, Tomorrow

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• I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom; I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients.

  Gustave Courbet

  Artist, Knowing, Quests

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• The epoch of Customary Law, and of its custody by a privileged order, is a very remarkable one.

  Henry James Sumner Maine

  Order, Law, Remarkable

  Henry Sumner Maine, Sir, J. H. Morgan (2000). “Ancient Law”, p.7, Beard Books

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• Regrettably, it has become clear that torture of detainees in United States custody is not limited to Abu Ghraib or even Iraq. Since Abu Ghraib, there have been increasing reports of torture.

  Marty Meehan

  Iraq, United States, Abu Ghraib

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• Foreign nationals entering the United States illegally who are taken into custody by the Border Protection Corps or by State or local law enforcement authorities must be promptly delivered to a federal law enforcement authority

  John Culberson

  Taken, Law, Enforcement

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• It was our view of the worst that could befall our people if they were taken captive. So, what was fascinating to me was that somehow it appears the techniques that we have feared most in the world would be used on our people, we are using on people in our custody.

  Jane Mayer

  Taken, Views, People

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• When my parents got divorced, there was a custody fight over me. ... and no one showed up.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Fighting, Parent, Divorced

  Rodney Dangerfield (2009). “It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs”, p.20, Zondervan

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• When you stand up for yourself and try to be autonomous and self-determining, you're called a lot of names that we all know and that are very common. You may lose your job. You may lose custody of your child. You may be blamed for the failure of your marriage even though it was the man who couldn't tolerate an equal relationship.

  Gloria Steinem

  Jobs, Children, Men

  Source: www.pbs.org

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