Benjamin Bratt Quotes

If I were to ask any parent, 'Do you love your kid?' the answer would unequivocally be, 'Yes.' If I went on to ask, 'What would you do to protect your kid from harm's way?' any rational parent would answer without skipping a beat, 'Anything.'

There's not a mom or dad that wants to leave their child unprotected.

It's come at last," she thought, "the time when you can no longer stand between your children and heartache. When there wasn't enough food in the house you pretended that you weren't hungry so they could have more. In the cold of a winter's night you got up and put your blanket on their bed so they wouldn't be cold. You'd kill anyone who tried to harm them - I tried my best to kill that man in the hallway. Then one sunny day, they walk out in all innocence and they walk right into the grief that you'd give your life to spare them from.

I think it's really hard to understand the depths and the power of the love that someone has for their children unless you really have children.

There's something ancient and inevitable about this desire to do whatever you can to protect your child.

You think you know what love is - until you have a child and discover that unconditional mother love.

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.

I look for the safety of my child. I don't really care about me.

I always tried to do the best for my kid.

Nothing outside of my child is important.

Everyone who knows me will know the truth, which is that my children come first in my life and that I would never harm any child.

My wife Shanti and I are blessed with two wonderful daughters. Nothing is more important to us than protecting their future and the future of every Arkansas child.

What is the thing that Will could do to make me not love him? That would make me abandon him? I can't think of one. I'm sorry. Except if he did something bad to the kids - now we've got a problem.

I have six children and I love all my kids more than anything in the world.

My dad works in child protection and he's spent many, many years in that line of work.

Our parents deserve our honor and respect for giving us life itself. Beyond this they almost always made countless sacrifices as they cared for and nurtured us through our infancy and childhood, provided us with the necessities of life, and nursed us through physical illnesses and the emotional stresses of growing up.

I could not identify with harming my child or giving up my child. But I could identify with giving up my child if it were going to be ultimately in his best interest.

There was nothing that amazed me more than parents that could channel the loss of their child into a crusade to protect other people's kids.

My sister, like our mother, always put her children first.

I would die for my kids. I love my kids - they're my life - and I love them more than anything I've ever known.

No cause is worth the loss of a child's life.

There's certain lines you just don't cross. You know the one thing that will get a man out of pocket is when you mess with his children.

I don't know what my mom feels toward me or where the viciousness is coming from, but I just know that when I have kids, I will protect them. I would do anything for my kids and for my family. I know that.

Is there anything more important than a child?

As a parent you have to do some renunciation.