Children Of Divorced Parents Quotes

#1. Studies show that children of divorced parents can have outcomes as positive as those coming from intact homes, provided the father remains financially supportive and active in his children's lives.

Larry Elder

#2. My parents got divorced and military school gave me a structure. A lot of kids my age were children of divorced parents. They didn't know what to do with the kids.

Stephen Sondheim

#3. I think children of divorced parents do grow up quicker. You just do.

Jasmine Guinness

#4. Speaking as the child of divorce, I have to say that one of the most disconcerting findings in 'The Longevity Project' focused on divorce: On average, grown children of divorced parents died almost five years earlier than children from intact families.

Katie Hafner

#5. The way I ought to measure my life is in terms of the others I helped to become better and happier people. That's the biggest thing to think about if you're not happy.

Clayton Christensen

#6. I'm a rather crude cook.

Dominic West

#7. You know, he told me once, completely exasperated, you've got one glass of water inside your head, with all the tears for a lifetime. If you waste them over nothing, then you won't be able to cry for real when you need to.

Jodi Picoult

#8. We tend to think of divorced or complicated families as a modern invention, and that is not at all true. You only have to read the Greek myths to see broken homes, widows, divorce, stepchildren, children trying to get along with new parents.

Rick Riordan

#9. My parents had four children quickly, divorced quickly - when I was two - and my mother remarried quickly. We were suddenly in a different environment with a different father.

Anna Chancellor

#10. Guerrilla wars, and even more so terrorist assaults, are conducted only by forces with insufficient strength to carry out a real war.

Conrad Black

#11. As an actress, you're part of what the director is creating, and as a model, you're representing a designer's vision.

Lou Doillon

#12. The reader wants to see something happen between pages one and four hundred, and nothing happens if the characters don't change.

Terry Brooks

#13. We're too much alike to understand each other because we don't even understand ourselves.

Betty Smith

#14. I hope I am pigeonholed with comedy. I'm really not interested in writing the darker stuff, the emotional stuff.

Jane Espenson

#15. Defeatism is the wretchedest of policies.

George Bernard Shaw