Quotes About Children

There are four stages to marriage. First there's the affair, then there's the marriage, then children, and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.

We would have broken up except for the children. Who were the children? Well, she and I were.

We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want a family so we'll have to start thinking about that.

As the family goes, so go the children.

I don't know if I believe in marriage. I believe in family, love and children.

So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you went about as numb as a slave in a totalitarian state.

When you have kids, there's a tendency to put the marriage stew on the back burner and give it a quick stir now and then. But it's important to remember why you had children with this person.

With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits.

A marriage without children is the world without the sun.

Kids need a mom and a dad, and people understand that. Marriage between a mom and a dad is most important for kids.

Marriage still means a lot more in the country I come from than it does here. I don't think there's anything to be gained by it for the couple. But for children I think it's an important thing.

Dreams are more personal. We tend to only dream about issues that impact us directly: our careers, our marriage, our children, our family and friends.

Marriage is about raising children. That's the purpose of the institution.

When one hears the argument that marriage should be indissoluble for the sake of children, one cannot help wondering whether the protagonist is really such a firm friend of childhood.

The worst problems for children stem from parental conflict, before, during, and after divorce or within marriage.

As marriage produces children, so children produce care and disputes; and wrangling.

the real killer was when you married the wrong person but had the right children.

Being in a marriage and having children is the greatest pleasure, but it is certainly not the easiest pleasure. It is not like eating ice cream.

The kids ask about marriage. It's meaning more and more to them. So it's something we've got to look at.

The turmoil that my dad went through, and then by extension, the kids went though, was profound and disastrous for the marriage, for the family.

I came from a happy family with loving parents, so my associations with marriage and children were all happy, positive things that brought me comfort as a child, which I wanted in my life.

My dream is that every child has enough food to eat, good medical care, and the chance to go to school and even attend college.

The choice made by families not to immunize their children is not supported by public policy or medical research nor should such action be supported by taxpayers in the form of child care payments.

There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.