Child Quote by Neal Shusterman Download Open image “Dead kids are put on pedestals, but mentally ill kids get hidden under the rug.” — Neal Shusterman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Child Dead Kids Ill Ill Kids Kids Kids Hidden Kids Pedestals Mentally ill Pedestal Pedestals Mentally
There is a tendency to dehumanize kids that commit crimes. The system is focused on punishment, not on rehabilitation. These kids are the most… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
All kids, when they go to school, are pretty good artists and dancers and singers and poets. All that gets buried, basically through being… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every child in America who enters school at the age of five is mentally ill, because he comes to school with an allegiance toward our elected officials, toward our founding fathers, toward our institutions, toward the preservation of this form of government that we have. Patriotism, nationalism, and sovereignty, all that proves that children are sick because a truly well… — Chester Middlebrook Pierce Copy Share
[Our children] have been taken away from us by the psychiatric mental-health system. They've been taken away by the educational system, by the government,… — Peter Breggin Copy Share Image
If a kid is born into a tough situation with no means of dealing with it, you end up with kids who are mentally… — Big Narstie Copy Share Image
There is nothing worse that you can do to a human being in America today than give them a mental illness kind of label… — Peter Breggin Copy Share Image
The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals. — Ralph Steadman Copy Share Image
I think a lot of what is going on with kids who get pushed too far and attempt either murder or suicide is that… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Picking locks was not a skill he had ever cultivated, but he persisted day after day, turning the tip of his talon into different… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
“If you come anywhere near my daughter, I will see to it that you are taken apart piece by bloody piece. Do I make… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
“The fear of not living is a deep, abiding dread of watching your own potential decompose into irredeemable disappointment when “should be” gets crushed… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
That's wisdom you can take to the grave, and dig up when you need it! — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
“And you know the darkness beyond despair, just as intimately as you know the soaring heights. Because in this and all universes, there is… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
“while an adult could rarely be universally loved, everyone could love the right kid.” — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
“It's like art, you know? Picasso had to prove to the world he can paint the right way, before he goes putting both eyes… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
The way I see it, the impossible happens all the time; but we're so good at taking it for granted, we forget it was… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
“There was never anything wrong with my life. Perhaps that was the problem... The crack in my life was the fact that I had… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
The thing about hitting kids is, think about if you were doing the same thing to another adult. Hitting your kid is really the… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
“Children's lives are always beginning and adults' lives are always ending. Or is it the opposite? Your childhood is always ending and your adult… — Alison Espach Copy Share Image
“As parents who make every effort we can to raise our children in loving security, we do not need to feel more guilt than… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
I want to make my music and be a happy woman, a good wife, a good mom and one day hopefully have a child… — LeAnn Rimes Copy Share Image
I would have done well as a gypsy child, I think. A circus baby. I coulda played a great street urchin or ragamuffin. Or… — Natasha Lyonne Copy Share Image
I'm a weirdo and an only child. That comes together to create one-woman shows. — Amanda Seales Copy Share Image
To assist a child we must provide him with an environment which will enable him to develop freely. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Almost everywhere we find . . . the use of various coercive measures, to rid ourselves as quickly as possible of the child withinus--i.e.,… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
if we center our lives on BMWs, RVs, VCRs, PCs and the other acronyms of consumerism, we cannot expect our children to do otherwise. — Johnnetta B. Cole Copy Share Image