Children Quote by Rebecca West

The separation of a childless couple is dramatic, but the separation of a couple with children is always tragic.

— Louis Garrel

“The romantic fairy tales we grew up with -- where marriage is the happy ending rather than the opening scene -- are not useful…

— Ada Calhoun

When one hears the argument that marriage should be indissoluble for the sake of children, one cannot help wondering whether the protagonist is really…

— Suzanne La Follette

The seeds of divorce are often sown and the problems of children begin when Mother works outside the home.

— Ezra Taft Benson

“As soon as we confront concrete marriages with other foreign images-such as well-being, happiness, a home for children-marriage appears to be senseless, withered, moribund,…

— Adolf Guggenbhuhl-Craig

“Marriage is just a fancy word for adopting an overgrown male child who can not be handled by his parents any more.”

— Thabang Gideon Magaola

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

— Mary Wortley Montagu

Half of all marriages end in divorce- and then there are the really unhappy ones.

— Joan Rivers

“Better to have a messy home and happy children than a perfect yard and unhappy children”

— Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg

“Marriage is the producer of babies”

— Michael Ikechukwu john

“I know from experience that those least capable of truly assessing any marriage are the children who come out of it. We style them…

— Anna Quindlen

“Experience teaches us that the world is not a nursery.”

— Sigmund Freud