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I'd love to have children, and I think marriage is great, I really do. -- Jennifer Jason Leigh
Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty. -- George Eliot
Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
I don't know if I believe in marriage. I believe in family, love and children. -- Penelope Cruz
I'm an activist for gay marriage equality and children's rights. I'm the face of Share Our Strength. -- Sandra Lee
Marriage encourages the men and women who together create life to unite in a bond for the protection of children. -- Jack Kingston
There was no active, conscious decision-making point, just a gradual realization over time that I'm very happy minus children and marriage. -- Cindy Gallop
I didn't want to be one of those women who wake up at 63 years old and realize they've missed the window of opportunity for marriage and children. -- Alanis Morissette
I'm not that big a fan of marriage as an institution and I don't know why women need to have children to be seen as complete human beings. -- Marisa Tomei
And that is why marriage and family law has emphasized the importance of marriage as the foundation of family, addressing the needs of children in the most positive way. -- John Boehner
There are four stages in a marriage. First there's the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce. -- Norman Mailer
Just as the unique characteristics of both males and females contribute to the completeness of a marriage relationship, so those same characteristics are vital to the rearing, nurturing, and teaching of children. -- David A. Bednar
Nations fight against nations, in marriages people fight against each other, children fight against each other. We are in warfare, in a national warfare, and in warfare with each other and with ourselves. -- Charles Stanley
I want children, but I don't necessarily want to be married because I think marriage is very difficult. To have a successful marriage, you have to work hard and regard it as a job. -- Monica Cruz
My argument is simple, which is, that for several thousand years in Western civilization, marriage has been the union of one man and one woman. Research is overwhelming that children need mothers and fathers. -- Gary Bauer
Straight couples don't have to be monogamous to be married or married to be monogamous. Monogamy no more defines marriage than the presence of children does. Monogamy isn't compulsory and its absence doesn't invalidate a marriage. -- Dan Savage
For a healthy society, those laws and conventions should always support marriage as an institution characterised by an openness to children and the responsibility of fathers and mothers remaining together to care for children born into their family. -- Vincent Nichols
Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so much attention that a husband and wife, concentrating on their children, fail to notice each other's faults. -- Richard Armour
I would love to get married, first of all, from my children's perspective. People don't think of children when they think of gay marriage, but I do have children, and for them to see their family validated as other families are validated and protected by our government, yes. -- Judy Gold
Don't let your children take priority over your marriage and your work and everything else. -- Josh Turner
A marriage without children is the world without the sun. -- Saint Augustine
Marriage is about raising children. That's the purpose of the institution. -- Rush Limbaugh
Sex was for men. Marriage, like lifeboats, was for women and children. -- Carrie Fisher
Marriage, children-you never expect it to end in tragedy. Unless you're me. -- Michael C. Hall
As marriage produces children, so children produce care and disputes; and wrangling. -- Mary Wortley Montagu
When you're unhappy in your marriage, your children are the ones who suffer. -- Christina Aguilera
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults. -- Peter De Vries
For parents to restrain the inclinations of their children in marriage is an usurped power. -- Henry Fielding
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults. -- Peter De Vries
The worst problems for children stem from parental conflict, before, during, and after divorce or within marriage. -- Stephanie Coontz
Marriage is not absolutely for making children. But it is absolutely for making children followers of Jesus. -- John Piper
I think marriage is a good thing for children, because it gives them a feeling of security. -- George Michael
The sweet companionship of eternal marriage is one of the greatest blessings God has granted to His children. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
The concerts you enjoy together/ Neighbors you annoy together/ Children you destroy together,/ That keep marriage in tact. -- Stephen Sondheim
I had my children after eight years of marriage. It was a dream come true. I still pinch myself. -- Nita Ambani
The greatest source of security our children have in this world is a God-honoring, Christ-centered marriage between their parents. -- Voddie T. Baucham Jr.
With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits. -- Eleanor Holmes Norton
Before you and your spouse can work as a team raising your children, you must first work as a team in your marriage. -- Jim George
When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house. -- Maj Sjowall
Defendants have not explained how allowing same-sex marriage between two consenting adults will at all prevent heterosexual spouses from caring for their biological children. -- Kristine G. Baker
Epicurus was in favour of friendly sex but not of grand passions or marriage and children, viewing them as sources of trouble and vexation. -- Catherine Wilson
Do not miss your children's childhood. Do not be away 200 nights a year as I was. Do not put strains on your marriage or family. -- Joe Scarborough
The first bond of society is the marriage tie; the next our children; then the whole family of our house, and all things in common. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Always remember, children, that marriage is a very intimate relationship. It's not just sitting and chatting to a person; there are other things, you know. -- Nancy Mitford
Divorce isn't such a tragedy. A tragedy's staying in an unhappy marriage, teaching your children the wrong things about love. Nobody ever died of divorce. -- Jennifer Weiner
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. -- Charles McPhee
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Even if my marriage is falling apart and my children are unhappy, there is still a part of me that says, 'God, this is fascinating!' -- Jane Smiley
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. -- Andrew Solomon
I didn't think marriage worked. I thought everybody who was married was secretly miserable - that it was something they just put up with for their children. -- Salma Hayek
On the whole she found erring children easier to deal with than their frantic parents, confirming her conclusion that marriage did strange things to the adult mind. -- Miranda Neville
I'm not that big a fan of marriage as an institution, and I don't know why women need to have children to be seen as complete human beings. -- Marisa Tomei
My suggestion is that there's no way out of the human condition. Sex, death, marriage, children, parents, illness. There's no way out. They're a misery, all of them. -- James Hillman
Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults. -- Peter De Vries
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 -- Siddharth Katragadda
Three of my children married Jewish people. One did not and that marriage didn't last more than half a dozen years or so. The others are still very close. -- Vera Rubin
[On refusing to allow photos to be published of herself and her children:] A lady's name should appear in print only three times, at her birth, marriage, and death. -- Edith Roosevelt
well, i don't know about you but I'm going to try everything! War, women, travel, marriage, children, the works. [...]. I want to know about things, what makes them work! -- Charles Bukowski
The message about sex and relationships that she had gotten as a child... was confused, contradictory. Sex was for men, and marriage, like lifeboats, was for women and children. -- Carrie Fisher
Marriage and the up-bringing of children in the home require as well-trained a mind and as well-disciplined a character as any other occupation that might be considered a career. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Passion, sexual passion, may lead to marriage, but cannot sustain marriage. The purpose of marriage is the raising of children, for which patience, not passion, is the necessary foundation. -- Edward Abbey
Public attitudes follow real life experience, and as marriage equality has spread to more communities, Americans have seen more freedom, stronger families, more protection for children and more fairness. -- Ken Mehlman

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