Sam Childers Quotes

Adam's abduction was our private hell - but it was not an isolated incident. On any given day, any number of children are absent from their homes for diverse and numerous reasons.

What do you mean you have my children at the police station? Why are my kids at the police station?

Who can blame desperate parents for wanting to escape the horror that their families are experiencing?

Parents fear for their children. Absolutely, I think it's a deep and troubling theme to explore.

As a parent my greatest fear is always anything that endangers my children.

I had a great deal of trouble focusing. My two - I had three children, and the two that survived - boys - were very badly injured. I did my job. I didn't miss the votes. I showed up. But I just could hardly wait to get home.

It is my biggest fear, something happening to a child, your child, is unfathomable.

This deep insecurity has been going on for a while. I mean I picked it up in 2014 sitting in focus groups of women who were feeling terrified, not just about that ISIS was coming, but terrified that their children couldn't be safe at school, terrified about what was happening in Ferguson and other places.

I began writing after my child was seriously hurt in a day care center accident, and I wanted to come home to be with her during her recovery.

My prayer is spasmodic, occasional, desperate. It has a great deal to do with my children's physical well-being - that when they're traveling in the air the plane not crash, things like that.

I wouldn't recommend [boxing] to any child of mine. I would rather he played golf or something.

I had never had any experience of autism before and I would come home and look at my son, Billy, who is now two, and be absolutely paranoid, particularly because he loves Thomas the Tank Engine, and lots of autys love Thomas. But he is not very good at pointing, and autistic children absolutely love pointing.

That if desperate times call for desperate measures, then I'm free to act as desperately as I wish.

I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though she's too young to have logged on yet. Here's what I worry about. I worry that 10 or 15 years from now, she will come to me and say 'Daddy, where were you when they took freedom of the press away from the Internet?'

If anyone did any harm to my children, I don't know what I would do.

To be told that our child's behavior is "normal" offers little solace when our feelings are badly hurt, or when we worry that hisactions are harmful at the moment or may be injurious to his future. It does not help me as a parent nor lessen my worries when my child drives carelessly, even dangerously, if I am told that this is "normal" behavior for children of his age. I'd much prefer him to deviate from the norm and be a cautious driver!

What I want for children in our country and around the world is safe, stable and loving homes.

Sometimes you do have a good time. But when it gets to the point where you're sitting in your home and you're just trying to cover what you don't want people to know. It's painful. And then you want more just so that you don't let anybody see you cry. Or anybody to see we're not happy.

For the life of me, I did not understand how he[Atticus] could sit there in cold blood and read a newspaper when his only son stood an excellent chance of being murdered with a Confederate Army relic.

I have a 20-year-old son, I have a 12-year-old son and I'm so afraid for them.

During the past few years North East India has emerged as one of the biggest destinations for child trafficking.

There is nothing more precious to a parent than a child, and nothing more important to our future than the safety of all our children.

Other people's risks are statistical. When it's your risk, your own child, it isn't statistical anymore.

I went with my husband and an innocent child to California. I went to a theatrical manager and asked him to allow me to earn money enough on the stage to buy our tickets home. He did.

My daughter doesn't want to go to school because she knows 'the men' are watching for her. They jump out of the bushes and from behind cars and who knows where else, besieging these children just to get a photo.