Charles Edward Montague Quotes

If I can save one kid's life, for me, it's absolutely worth it.

For toddlers I suggest leaving their mittens on year-round, indoors and out. That way they can't get into aspirin bottles, liquor cabinets, or boxes of kitchen matches.

I believe the approach we take to talking to our kids about drugs can, in some cases, mean the difference between life and death. So my approach is really simple: I just don't want them to die. And I want them to be able to save someone's life if they see someone die.

It's incredibly important to me that my children don't put anything in their bodies that they haven't tested first - that's how you end up dying.

One of the most essential and mundane of human activities - taking care of children - requires high levels of anxious vigilance. ... [Parents] dare not risk assuming that the sudden quiet from the toddlers' room means they are studying with Baby Einstein. Visualize fratricidal stranglings and electric outlets stabbed with forks: this is how we have reproduced our genomes.

You see, money to you means freedom; to me it means bondage.

Why are people so afraid of giving their kids necessary information that might prevent an unwanted pregnancy or disease? But they're not worried about the violent nature of video games or movies or books.

When I say: "I'm looking at you, I can see you", that means: "I can see you because I can't see what is behind you: I see you through the frame I am drawing. I can't see inside you". If I could see you from beneath or from behind, I would be God. I can see you because my back and my sides are blind. One can't even imagine what it would be like to see inside people.

At the end of the day, so many things that we hold so much value with, it just doesn't even mean anything. I really try to stay focused on being really positive.

Under the current system, all children under 17 are treated equally. However, while some films may be appropriate for older children to see with parental accompaniment, some are inappropriate for younger children under any circumstances. This problem needs to be addressed.

If you understand something in only one way, then you don't really understand it at all. The secret of what anything means to us depends on how we've connected it to all other things we know. Well-connected representations let you turn ideas around in your mind, to envision things from many perspectives until you find one that works for you. And that's what we mean by thinking!

I do not support child abuse. It's a disgusting crime of which I am a victim.

We are always going to put the best interests of kids above the rights, privileges and priorities of adults.

Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong.

You know, two people can say exactly the same words, saying the same story, and it would mean something entirely different.

My baby is weird man... when he get mad, he gets in the oven.

I can make a movie about Lee Harvey Oswald and make you feel what he feels and make you understand why he believes what he believes. That doesn't mean I think you should go out and shoot JFK.

Every child’s life is sacred and it is long past time that we protect it.

I'm not for cutting off hands but I'm more for cutting off hands than I am for molesting children, if that's what it takes to stop it. I think that's fair.

The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That's enlarging. I mean, it saves you from ultimately from the boredom of having one point of view, like being locked in a room with nothing but your own point of view, your own references.

When the lives and the rights of children are at stake, there must be no silent witnesses.

Aren't you scared your kid's getting kidnapped...RIGHT NOW?

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

Snake's poison is life to the snake; it is in relation to man that it means "death.

The welfare of our children is our main concern, and their best interests are our first priority.