Quotes About Family

I'm endlessly fascinated by parenting, marriage, my wife and the ins and outs of marriage.

Even when a girl is married she still never completely leaves her mother and father's home.

The young man who wants to marry happily should pick out a good mother and marry one of her daughters - any one will do.

Dreams are more personal. We tend to only dream about issues that impact us directly: our careers, our marriage, our children, our family and friends.

I'm in an interracial marriage.

I had my children after eight years of marriage. It was a dream come true. I still pinch myself.

We do not marry for ourselves, whatever we say; we marry just as much or more for our posterity, for our family. The practice and benefit of marriage concerns our race very far beyond us.

I also have a degree in marriage, family and child counseling - I'm a therapist.

Heterosexual marriage is the heart of our civilization.

There aren't many great adverts for marriage or parenthood. It always looks so stressful, and that's what I've been scared of. What you don't realise is how much you're going to get back.

When you're a writer, you want to try to avoid cliches. Unfortunately, when you're writing about marriage or family, all cliches seem to apply.

In 1977 we played America and Europe three times, and Japan - my marriage suffered as a result. My then wife took the kids to Canada to be near her parents

If only I had a wife!" I used to think, "who could stay home and keep the children happy, why I could support six of them. A cinch.

I've been married fifty-five years and I've been home three weeks.

Marriage is about raising children. That's the purpose of the institution.

If the marriage were valid, she'd be your sister-in-law.

What the restored gospel brings to the discussion on marriage and family is so large and so relevant that it cannot be overstated: we make the subject eternal!

Given that we are all descended from Adam and Eve, genetic defects as a result of intra-family marriage would not begin to crop up until after the first few dozen generations.

My parents separated when I was four. It wasn't the smoothest of divorces, but then as my mother always says, you can't have a passionate marriage without a passionate divorce.

Arranged Marriages don't always have to be risky. Get to know your future in-laws. She's bound to be like one of them.

In my kids school, the married family is an anomaly which I do think is sad. I do believe in marriage.

The worst problems for children stem from parental conflict, before, during, and after divorce or within marriage.

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

Stability is why society has an interest in marriage.