Innocent Children Quotes

• A 1990 Gallup poll found that 77 percent of Americans polled said abortion was the taking of human life. I agree, and believe that taking the life on an innocent child is unjust.

  Robert Casey

  Children, Believe, Abortion

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• Love means to be willing to give until it hurts.

  Mother Teresa

  Hurt, Mean, Giving

  Mother Teresa's address at the National Prayer Breakfast (Sponsored by the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives), www.ewtn.com. February 3, 1994.

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• All great art originates from the innocent child within us expressing itself through the wisdom, experience and skill of an adult.

  Richard Schmid

  Art, Children, Wisdom Experience

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• It's just not right to make an innocent child suffer because of the father's misdeeds.

  Emily Yoffe

  Children, Father, Suffering

  "Picture Perfect". Live Chat, www.slate.com. January 29, 2013.

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• My heart goes out to the families of innocent children who were killed today in Pakistan!! I do not accept a world where kids are killed for wanting an education! This violence and ignorance has to stop!!!! It starts with all of us treating all human beings with dignity and respect!!

  Madonna Ciccone

  Children, Heart, Ignorance

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• I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child, a direct killing of the innocent child, murder by the mother herself.

  Mother Teresa

  Mother, Children, War

  Mother Teresa's address at the National Prayer Breakfast (Sponsored by the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives), www.ewtn.com. February 3, 1994.

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• My family and I are heartbroken after hearing the news that more than 100 innocent children and teachers have lost their lives...

  Malala Yousafzai

  Heartbroken, Teacher, Children

  "Peshawar school attack aimed at killing soldiers' children". "PM" with Michael Edwards, www.abc.net.au. December 17, 2014.

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• And if we can accept that a mother can kill her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another?

  Mother Teresa

  Mother, Children, People

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• I realize how depraved it was to instill false guilt in an innocent child's conscience, causing a distorted image of life, God, & self, leaving little if any feeling of personal worth.

  Mary Griffith

  Children, Self, Leaving

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• We can no longer tolerate losing one more innocent child or putting one more firefighter at risk in a fire that could have been prevented at the cost of pennies by making a couple simple changes to the construction of a cigarette.

  Ed Markey

  Couple, Children, Simple

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• But I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child, a direct killing of the innocent child, murder by the mother herself.

  Mother Teresa

  Mother, Children, Pro Life

  Speech at National Prayer Breakfast Washington, D.C., February 03, 1994.

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• Whenever I see an unmarried woman carrying a child, my first response is one of respect. I know she could have taken the quick fix without anyone knowing, but she chose instead to let an innocent child live.

  Randy Alcorn

  Children, Taken, Knowing

  Randy Alcorn (2009). “Pro-Life Answers to Pro-Choice Arguments”, p.120, Multnomah

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• How do we persuade a woman not to have an abortion? As always, we must persuade her with LOVE, and we remind ourselves that love means to be willing to give until it hurts.

  Mother Teresa

  Hurt, Mean, Giving

  Mother Teresa (2010). “Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others”, p.97, Image

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• Gratitude is the confidence in life itself... As gratitude grows it gives rise to joy. We experience the courage to rejoice in our own good fortune and in the good fortune of others... We can be joyful for people we love, for moments of goodness, for sunlight and trees, and for the very breath within our lungs. Like an innocent child, we can rejoice in life itself, in being alive.

  Jack Kornfield

  Gratitude, Children, People

  Jack Kornfield (2012). “Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are”, p.33, Shambhala Publications

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• It's hard to see how anyone can fail to care about innocent children and animals being blown up by landmines.

  Twiggy

  Children, Animal, Care

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• Thus, from admiration of one wise and innocent child, and from a misheard remark, the process that not even Aristotle could codify was triggered. Where do you get your ideas? I purposely mishear things.

  Harlan Ellison

  Wise, Children, Writing

  Harlan Ellison (2014). “Slippage: Previously Uncollected, Precariously Poised Stories”, p.103, Open Road Media

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• I feel the greatest destroyer of peace today is 'Abortion', because it is a war against the child... A direct killing of the innocent child, 'Murder' by the mother herself... And if we can accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another? How do we persuade a woman not to have an abortion? As always, we must persuade her with love... And we remind ourselves that love means to be willing to give until it hurts.

  Mother Teresa

  Mother, Hurt, Children

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• Fang snorted in disbelief. "On one hand, we have a mythical nice family that wants to adopt me. On the other, we have a gang of insane scientists desperate to do genetic experiments on innocent children. Guess which hand I get dealt?

  James Patterson

  Children, Nice, Hands

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• We are born one time only, we can never start a new life equipped with the experience we've gained from the previous one. We leave childhood without knowing what youth is, we marry without knowing what it is to be married, and even when we enter old age, we don't know what it is we're heading for: the old are innocent children innocent of thier old age. In that sense, man's world is the planet of inexperience.

  Milan Kundera

  Children, Men, Knowing

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• On the much revered family of North American mythology - and a metaphor for the Ruling Alliance:
  Sacred family! .... The supposed home of all the virtues, where innocent children are tortured into their first falsehoods, where wills are broken by parental tyranny, and self-respect smothered by crowded, jostling egos.

  August Strindberg

  Children, Home, Self

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• I know what I am fighting for. I am fighting for the most basic rights of innocent children. And that is why I never take the criticism too deep under my skin.

  Waris Dirie

  Children, Fighting, Rights

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• Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong.

  Richard Dawkins

  Children, Mind, Vulnerable

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• Fight them with your faith in God, fight them in defense of every free honorable woman and every innocent child, and in defense of the values of manhood and the military honor...Fight them because with their defeat you will be at the last entrance of the conquest of all conquests. The war will end with...dignity, glory, and triumph for your people, army, and nation.

  Saddam Hussein

  Children, Military, War

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• In too many cases, the moms, the dads, the sisters and brothers of children with cancer must stand by a hospital bed and watch helplessly as this horrible disease consumes the life of an innocent child.

  Michael McCaul

  Sister, Mom, Brother

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• Donald Trump creates scapegoats in Muslims and Mexican immigrants. He calls for the use of torture. He calls for killing the innocent children and family members of terrorists. He cheers assaults on protesters. He applauds the prospect of twisting the Constitution to limit First Amendment freedom of the press. This is the very brand of anger that has led other nations into the abyss.

  Mitt Romney

  Cheer, Children, Mexican

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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