Ann Widdecombe Quotes

The abuse of children is the worst offence that anybody can commit.

Ann Widdecombe

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• The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Children
  • Always
  • Revolution

• We try to keep a good line of communication open with our children. It's not always about trying to just teach them every moment, but it's about listening to them and trying to understand them and gain that sense of communication so when they need to talk to someone, they know that we're there.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Good
  • Children
  • Trying

• I went to a number of foreign countries, and during whenever I went, I would try to go to an orphanage or a home for children. And I was seeing thousands of kids around the world that needed homes.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • World
  • Children
  • Home

• One thing I've been happy as peach pie about - because I'm all about the children and the happiness of a woman because that makes the happiness of the home - is that nannies, day cares and babysitters are all collapsing, which is forcing moms and dads to raise their children at home.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Children
  • Home
  • Happy

• As philanthropists, the most powerful legacy we can create is one that keeps on giving - through our children.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Children
  • Giving
  • Powerful

• The trouble with children is that they're not returnable.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Children
  • Trouble

• I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Live
  • Children
  • Philadelphia

• We need to encourage innovative ideas that give parents better alternatives to prepare children for higher education and for the jobs of the future.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Children
  • Future
  • Parents

• Broccoli, when overboiled, produces a sulfuric stench that causes children to gag the instant they enter the house.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Children
  • House
  • Instant

• As a woman, especially when you have children, one gets so good at soldiering on - almost too good.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Good
  • Children
  • Woman

• After a conflict, women are not only more likely to turn to other womenfriends for support, but are nine times more likely to be with their children should conflict become divorce.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Women
  • Children
  • Support

• Many women are discovering that the motherhood instinct implies a responsibility to be certain children have dads - everyday, not far away; and some are aware that economic independence requires not holding on to her child as if it were her job.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Women
  • Children
  • Job

• Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will. Slavery was one of them and the people who best served that age were the ones who called it as it was - which was ungodly and inhuman. Ben Franklin called it what it was when he became president of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society.

  

  Bono U2
  • People
  • Children
  • Age

• I grew up on a sugar plantation in Trinidad, on an expat estate, and that meant I had no idea about money until a lot later than most children.

  

  Andrea McLean
  • Up
  • Children
  • Money

• I wanted to write about women and their work, and about valuing the work we, as women, choose to do. Too many women I knew disparaged their work. Many working mothers thought they ought to be home with their children instead, so they carried around too much guilt to enjoy much job satisfaction.

  

  Jennifer Chiaverini
  • Work
  • Women
  • Children

• Having children really changes your priorities.

  

  Cindy Crawford
  • Children

• I was totally into cartoon babes when I was a little dude. Cheetara from the 'Thundercats,' then Jessica Rabbit, and finally I moved onto a real-life human being and was into Punky Brewster, and then Christina Applegate on 'Married with Children.'

  

  Pete Wentz Fall Out Boy
  • Life
  • Real
  • Children

• Being constantly with children was like wearing a pair of shoes that were expensive and too small. She couldn't bear to throw them out, but they gave her blisters.

  

  Beryl Bainbridge
  • Children
  • Shoes
  • Blisters

• Because I'm just a giving person spiritually, I feel that if your intentions are to use or abuse or take advantage of, then you might get what you get in the meantime, but there's still a price to pay.

  

  Angie Stone
  • Giving
  • Abuse

• Silence gives consent.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Silence

• He is able to help His children work through anything, and not a single thing is going to happen in the future that can change that fact.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • Work
  • Children
  • Help

• If we were all kind, if we were all loving and respectful to one another, this world would be so different. So it starts with you, and you can do it. Don't let anything hold you back!

  

  Ally Brooke Fifth Harmony
  • World
  • Different

• To be honest, I still feel like I haven't scratched the surface of where I want to be. If someone asked me for an autograph, I'd be like, 'Me? I haven't done anything yet !' I have much more to offer the world.

  

  Cory Hardrict
  • World
  • Done

• The abuse of children is the worst offence that anybody can commit.

  

  Ann Widdecombe
  • Children
  • Abuse
  • Offence