Quotes About Values

I tell my wife she is only the third most important thing after my country and my parents, in that order.

I was raised in a religious environment, and my wife is one of the more religious people that I have ever known.

My kids are being raised in a much more affluent environment than was mine. My wife and I talk about that all the time because neither of us had this kind of experience.

I don't think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing.

I have children so I couldn't shave it off; my dad shaved his beard off once and we all disowned him. My wife's dad shaved his off and they freaked out. I think if you have kids, getting rid of a beard is bad.

If everyone got a divorce and looked for a second wife, the Coptic family would lose its moral compass.

I want to be a good wife, a good mother, a good person.

My whole thing, my priority, is my family, my kids, and my wife. That's my future. I don't really care about what role is next.

I want to be the best daughter, sister, friend and wife I can possibly be - because when I die, I am not going to be buried with my Oscar.

I'm a father, a son, and a grandson, and if anyone messed with my wife, mom, or grandmother, and if the law didn't care about it, what would I do? Would I be defined by that action?

I tie my wedding ring around my neck with an old shoelace. It's to remind me of why I play cricket: for my family - my wife Ruth and my boys Sam and Luca.

I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art.

I try to differentiate between what I need and don't need. I talk to my wife and children before buying things.

When I met my wife, I was forty-six, and it was love at first sight. Every day, my love grew deeper as I found out about her family values, that her parents were still together, that she wanted kids. So we fell in love, got engaged, got married, and a month later, we were pregnant!

The values of WikiLeaks have been completely overshadowed by Julian Assange.

I had a lot of friends in high school, but I was never the wild party girl. Never have been, never plan to be!

It's gratifying to work for somebody who doesn't measure accomplishment by the temporary state of public-opinion polls.

I should say I am not much of a gamer - anymore. The reason for this is that I have to make a living, and my body requires vitamin D, and I've come to value the heady pleasures of human interaction over the temporary exhilaration of reaching the 'next level.'

Football puts everything at your fingertips. And I was raised in a way that focused everything on looking after your family. Faith really helped me realise that the temptations that you have on hand will give you joy, enjoyment, whatever, but only for a short while. And after that, it is all gloom.

We will never sell or have an IPO. What that does is suddenly flushes you with cash. It makes you now work for a group of stockholders, who, again, put pressure and temptations on your true-blueness.

Every time I am tempted to buy some dopey thing, I hear my late father's voice: 'Do you really need that?' He was big on saving money and buying as much security as possible. He also encouraged charitable giving. So, I am responsible with currency.

It's very tempting to have a nanny and live in a gated community and have a chef - I'd love to have a few dinners cooked for me. But I don't want that for my children. When they're older, if people say to them, 'Did you have a chef?' I want them to be shocked by the question.

Once you depart from the Ten Commandments as being the foundation of right and wrong, you are in a free fall.

The Ten Commandments have never been replaced as the moral basis upon which society rests.