Quotes About Family

The end of a marriage has got to be one of the saddest events one can experience. I've heard that the pain [of divorce] is second only to an actual death in the family, and that sounds about right.

you can't be value free when it comes to marriage

I'm against redefining marriage historically 5,000 years... because then it'll be re-defined. What if it's between a brother and a sister?

He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.

Marriage, children-you never expect it to end in tragedy. Unless you're me.

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.

The ultimate purpose of every teaching, every activity in the Church is that parents and their children are happy at home, sealed in an eternal marriage, and linked to their generations.

Marriage is the beginning and pinnacle of civilization.

As the family goes, so go the children.

You're married, and suddenly you have your own family. There's a nice comfort in that. That part of your life is certain ... You've got your home in that other person.

The reason for much matrimony is patrimony.

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.

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

I couldn't see much point in tying myself down to a middle-aged woman with four children, even though the woman was my wife and the children were my own.

Marriage is the aim and end of all sensible girls, because it is the meaning of life.

I oppose any attempt to grant homosexual unions the same legal privileges that civil government affords to traditional marriage and family life.

I didn't plan on being a comedian. I didn't plan on getting married and I didn't plan on having kids, but I did all those things.

The central paradox and challenge of marriage is that we have to make family out of someone we're not related to.

My mother married a very good man ... and she is not at all keen on my doing the same.

I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.

Marriage made more sense when it was indissoluble. It's the woman trying to cope with the strains of a one-parent family who will suffer most from the relaxation of the divorce laws.

The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family.

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.

How can two people love each other, create children together, cohabitiate, build a life together, and then end up hating each other in the end.