Child Impact Quotes

Children can change the world.

For a couple with young children, divorce seldom comes as a "solution" to stress, only as a way to end one form of pain and accept another.

Badmouthing your ex-spouse rips the child apart

With scripts I've always looked at them and thought about kids, you know? Thought about the world and the impact... I won't do nudity and I never felt comfortable with that whole idea or things with huge sexual content - not my thing.

I told my father to stop smoking around the age of two or three years old and he stopped smoking. So the relationship between the kid and the parent is very powerful, and if you give the kid the right information, it can be very useful to the family.

I have long believed that what most affects a child is not the divorce, per se, but how it is handled

Children didn't shield families from eviction: They exposed them to it.

It seems a bit weird to call someone your girlfriend when you have a child.

In certain ways it is incredibly damaging considering the stuff I did before certainly wasn't for kids.

My biggest grouse since the time I filed for divorce has been that when all the drama unfolded, the children were made pawns. That should never be the case. You never know how it affects them.

Taking Big Bird away from our five year olds, lunch money away from our ten year olds, job training programs away from our fifteen year olds, and college loans away from our twenty year olds is a disgrace.

I'm glad I had a daughter first because with a boy you have to teach him stuff and it's just a little different. Having Melody has changed the way I see things. It's just a heavenly blessing.

Love can produce the children, but it has nothing to do with the raising of the children. I grew up thinking, 'Oh, that's it. All I have to do is fall in love.' You may think love will change everything, but it really is different with children. Children don't necessarily bring you together; they challenge you.

When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he makes her young again.

It wouldn't be fair to drag a child round the world, touring.

We have to ask people who produce things [entertainment] to consider their consequence—especially with children.

Marriage can feel like putting a burden on each other and sometimes kids go with that, too.

Of the many horrors of divorce, the most egregious is that it robs a kid of the best of both worlds. Dads can do many things that even the best moms can't, and vice versa.

Just strictly from a business standpoint, kids are a liability to landlords, and they actually provoke evictions.

With my child, I hardly watch TV now.

My kids used to see me crying and depressed all the time, and that can affect kids as well.

The victims of problems of the family are the children. The children. Even of problems that neither husband nor wife have a say in.

My wife is married to a part-time husband. That's hard to do. The kids get the short end of the stick, too.

I've always been concerned about kids - not just my own three, but all kids - what kind of an image I'm providing for them, what kind of inspiration. I don't know now. Maybe I'm leading them down the path to self-destruction.

In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.