Quotes About Family

The only duration of family life that satisfies the loftiest longings of the human soul is forever.

When you have kids, there's a tendency to put the marriage stew on the back burner and give it a quick stir now and then. But it's important to remember why you had children with this person.

With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits.

I finally got a chance to talk to my daughter from my previous marriage. I just got married May 3 to my beautiful wife, but we don't see each other much.

It was a bitter moment for us. We weren't two mature parents. We were just two kids playing grown-up. We still needed Mommy and Daddy's permission, blessings, and money to survive.

I respect marriage, and I think it's beautiful that people do it. But for me, more important than anything is having a peaceful life and a peaceful home.

If traditional marriage is not the law of the land, the institution of the family will cease to exist.

I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family.

To have one's mother-in-law in the country when one lives in Paris, and vice versa, is one of those strokes of luck that one encounters only too rarely.

Traditional marriage in the platform is the essential building block to our civilization.

Early marriage is most prevalent in communities suffering deep, chronic poverty.

On a baby of his own: You gotta be married first. That's my rule: marriage then baby!

A marriage without children is the world without the sun.

Marriage is like a table with four legs - the couple, the children, the parents and the in-laws. Break any of these and the marriage crashes to the floor

marriage is an extraordinary thing - and I doubt if any outsider - even a child of the marriage - has the right to judge.

Kids need a mom and a dad, and people understand that. Marriage between a mom and a dad is most important for kids.

Marriage still means a lot more in the country I come from than it does here. I don't think there's anything to be gained by it for the couple. But for children I think it's an important thing.

Adrian Mole's father was so angry that so many pepole got divorced nowadays. HE had been unhappilly married for 30 years, why should everybody else get away?

Daughters-in-law lived with their husbands' parents, not their own; a synonym for marriage in Chinese is "taking a daughter-in-law.

To him in whom love dwells, the whole world is but one family.

The marriage bed is the most degenerative influence in the social order.

The man may be the head of the household. But the woman is the neck, and she can turn the head whichever way she pleases.

When you love someone - when you create a child with him - you don't just suddenly lose that bond. Like any other energy, it can't be destroyed, just channeled into something else.

Well, the one thing I've thought about is having dad give me away. You know when he takes your hand and he puts it in the hand of the person you marry? That's the only part I've ever wanted.