Children Quotes

Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor - they have children that they don't want or they cannot feed.

~ Isabel Allende

The sweet companionship of eternal marriage is one of the greatest blessings God has granted to His children.

~ Joseph B. Wirthlin

For someone to say that marriage is only about procreation is a joke. I didn't marry my husband to have children. I married my husband because I love my husband.

~ Aisha Tyler

Marriage does figure in my life, as I do want to have children. But I could also consider having children without getting married. The primary thing is having a good father, a partner who could be there with me through that journey.

~ Jacqueline Fernandez

Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so much attention that a husband and wife, concentrating on their children, fail to notice each other's faults.

~ Richard Armour

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.

~ Barbara Bush

Straight couples don't have to be monogamous to be married or married to be monogamous. Monogamy no more defines marriage than the presence of children does. Monogamy isn't compulsory and its absence doesn't invalidate a marriage.

~ Dan Savage

When our children obey the Lord and go to the temple to receive their blessings and enter into the marriage covenant, they enter into the same order of the priesthood that God instituted in the very beginning with father Adam.

~ Ezra Taft Benson

I didn't want to be one of those women who wake up at 63 years old and realize they've missed the window of opportunity for marriage and children.

~ Alanis Morissette

In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don't baptize the children of single mothers because they weren't conceived in the sanctity of marriage. These are today's hypocrites. Those who clericalize the church. Those who separate the people of God from salvation.

~ Pope Francis

When you're unhappy in your marriage, your children are the ones who suffer.

~ Christina Aguilera

As my friend said to me, when you have children, typically in a second marriage, when you're older and you get married again to a woman who would have children, you must always remember that you make sure the children attend a college where the commencement ceremonies are held in a facility with a wheelchair accessible ramp.

~ Alec Baldwin

I believe that the essence of marriage is choosing someone who loves you for who you are, embraces everything about you, and building a life with that person. Whether that life is with children or without children - it's honestly immaterial to building a life with someone that you love fully.

~ Aisha Tyler

I didn't think marriage worked. I thought everybody who was married was secretly miserable - that it was something they just put up with for their children.

~ Salma Hayek

I think marriage is only necessary if you've got children. It's quite nice for them.

~ Hugh Grant

Divorce is not the end of the world. It's worse to stay in an unhealthy marriage. That's a worse example for the children.

~ Jerry Hall

The only reason I got married in 2003 was for my children. I had a therapist who said marriage is really a container for a family, and that made sense to me.

~ Julianne Moore

At the time of my second marriage, my husband was in his early 50s, I was in my mid-40s, and we each had two kids. We maintained our individual accounts and opened one for the house. We each kick the same percentage of our incomes into the house account and have a joint credit card. But we pay for our children separately.

~ Jean Chatzky

Marriage is a lot of things - a source of love, security, the joy of children, but it's also an interpersonal battlefield, and it's not hard to see why: Take two disparate people, toss them together in often-confined quarters, add the stresses of money and kids - now lather, rinse, repeat for the rest of your natural life. What could go wrong?

~ Jeffrey Kluger

My argument is simple, which is, that for several thousand years in Western civilization, marriage has been the union of one man and one woman. Research is overwhelming that children need mothers and fathers.

~ Gary Bauer

When you realise that money doesn't actually make you happy, it's a quick fix to have things you've always wanted, but then when you have it, you realise that's not what actually makes you happy. It's more about having a great marriage and happy children; that's what life's all about.

~ Shane Filan

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

~ Norman Mailer

Do not miss your children's childhood. Do not be away 200 nights a year as I was. Do not put strains on your marriage or family.

~ Joe Scarborough

He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.

~ Jeremy Taylor

The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children.

~ Marian Wright Edelman

Motherhood is not what was left over after our Father blessed His sons with priesthood ordination. It was the most ennobling endowment He could give His daughters, a sacred trust that gave women an unparalleled role in helping His children keep their second estate.

~ Sheri L. Dew

If we keep on ignoring and leaving children to their own devices at home, they become latchkey kids, and trust me, the consequences of that are not good.

~ Eric Braeden

As an alcoholic, you have no appreciation for your wife or your children's feelings, but I'm making up for that now. I'm winning my children's trust back.

~ Maurice Gibb

When we, through our educational culture, through the media, through the entertainment culture, give our children the impression that human beings cannot control their passions, we are telling them, in effect, that human beings cannot be trusted with freedom.

~ Alan Keyes

Children need to trust and depend upon those who are responsible for them.

~ Gordon Neufeld

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

~ Oscar Wilde

You've just got to have a sense of respect for the person you have children with. Anger doesn't help anybody. Ultimately you have to say forgiveness is important, and honoring what you had together is important. But it's easy to say and harder to do.

~ Nicole Kidman

My parents did their best - that earns a lot of forgiveness. But they say children grow up in spite of their parents, and I think I did.

~ Larry Drake

I am so longing to be domestic cooking stew, gardening, hopefully having some children, painting, sitting still in one place.

~ Eve Best

I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside.

~ Whitney Houston

A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder.

~ Stephen King

Encourage good music and art and literature in your homes. Homes that have a spirit of refinement and beauty will bless the lives of your children forever.

~ Ezra Taft Benson

I'm just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit.

~ Angelina Jolie

My dad had this philosophy that if you tell children they're beautiful and wonderful then they believe it, and they will be. So I never thought I was unattractive. But I was never one of the girls at school who had lots of boyfriends.

~ Emily Mortimer

Never have more children than you have car windows.

~ Erma Bombeck