Quotes About Family

My grandparents got married at a very young age, and a lot of what I think about marriage is based on their relationship.

From my parent's generation the idea was not that marriage was about some kind of idealized, romantic love. It was a partnership. It's about creating family. It's about creating offspring.

Even if you plan a marriage and a family, you are never quite prepared for the reality versus how you imagined it. In a lot of ways it's better, and in a lot of ways it's worse. That's life, right?

In interviews I gave early on in my career, I was quoted as saying it was possible to have it all: a dynamic job, marriage, and children. In some respects, I was a social adolescent.

If a woman abandoned by her husband, or a widow, of her own accord contracts a second marriage and bears ,a son , he is called the son of a re married woman .

The pope [Francis] knows that the marriage culture is in crisis throughout the world, and so is the family.

the real killer was when you married the wrong person but had the right children.

Being in a marriage and having children is the greatest pleasure, but it is certainly not the easiest pleasure. It is not like eating ice cream.

Marriage is going to be that happy state in which we get all of the nurturance and care and love and empathy and even good advice that we didn't receive from our families.

The kids ask about marriage. It's meaning more and more to them. So it's something we've got to look at.

The turmoil that my dad went through, and then by extension, the kids went though, was profound and disastrous for the marriage, for the family.

Personally I'm an advocate for healthy marriages and families and I do a lot of speaking around the country sharing my faith and talking to women's groups, even specifically about marriage.

Marriage is the agreement to let a family happen.

I am in a mixed race marriage myself, and I have a mixed race son....The racial perception interest is probably always going to be there to some extent.

my uncle ... had the misfortune to be ever touched in his brain, and, as a convincing proof, married his maid, at an age when he and she both had more occasion for a nurse than a parson.

The True Measure Of Success is determined by your home life.

He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune for they are impediments to great enterprises either of virtue or mischief.

Regarding marriage, it - somehow, it didn't happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.

Marriage is the commodification of affection, copulation, and, reproduction.

He loved her for what she was - rich. He worshiped the ground her family struck oil on.

No man is boss in his own home but he can make up for it by making a dog play dead.

My wife and I have many arguments but she only wins half of them. My mother-in-law wins the other half.

You can easily tell he's a newlywed because he's still smiling at his mother-in-law.

After paying for the wedding about all a father has left to give away is the bride.