Grace Abbott Quotes

But when we have families, when we have children, this gives us a purpose for being, to protect our children, to avoid going to jail because if I'm in jail, who looks after my children, who's there for my wife?

I'm not a babysitter.

When we protect our children in their schools or on our streets, we are living up to our obligations - obligations which we should take solemnly.

Fortunately, when you're a mom, the responsibility of caring for your child can keep you going.

Children are not in a position to assess risk and safety; it must be done for them, and it must be done carefully.

Children do not have to learn that streets are dangerous places by potentially fatal trial and error.

One of the best things about good mothers is that they remind their children to take care of themselves.

Children are entitled to life. We conceive them and so we owe them our care and our protection. This may not be a dictate of law anymore, but it is a dictate of love.

Do the best you can. And remember that the greatest asset you have in this world is those children who you've brought into the world, and for whose nurture and care you're responsible.

As a parent, the responsible thing to do - if you love your child - is to vaccinate your child.

The practical question, then, is what to do with the children. Tolerate them at home we will not. Let them run loose in the streets we dare not until our streets become safe places for children, which, to our utter shame, they are not at present, though they can hardly be worse than some homes and some schools.

If you really care about children then why would you want to keep families from adopting them?

A sense of duty - you only really get this feeling when you have a child. You always only used to be responsible for yourself and then there is also a child.

How can you send somebody else's kid to war if you won't send your own?

Always remember your kid's name.

Here's what's interesting about women. When it comes to their babies, when it comes to their children, they become these financial warriors like I have never seen before. They will not turn their back on the battlefield.

HELMER; But this is disgraceful. Is this the way you neglect your most sacred duties? NORA: What do you consider is my most sacred duty? HELMER: Do I have to tell you that? Isn't it your duty to your husband and children? NORA:I have another duty, just as sacred. HELMER: You can't have. What duty do you mean? NORA: My duty to myself.

You've got to keep the child alive; you can't create without it.

Nothing is more important in our national life than the welfare of our children.

Motherly love - putting the care of children before every other consideration - is the ultimate intelligence of nature.

Ashton jumped in and said, 'I want you to know that I don't take coming into childrens lives lightly'. That was within the first couple of weeks of our relationship, before he had met the girls. they are my priority and I've always be sensitive to their feelings, but as the parent you can't allow your children to dictate what's right for you.

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

The legacy I want to leave is a child-care system that says that no kid is going to be left alone or left unsafe.

Never show anger at slight,Tell nothing.Earn Respect from everyone by deeds,not Words.Respect the members of your Blood Family.Gambling was Recreation,Not a way to earn a Living.Love your Father,your Mother, your Sister but beware of Loving any other Woman than your Wife.And a Wife was a woman who bore your Children.And once that happened to You,your Life was Forfeit to give them their daily bread

All children should be loved, protected, nurtured --emotionally and intellectually-- respected, and never, under any circumstances, underestimated.