Margaret Mead Quotes

When I confess a couple who have kids, a married couple, I ask, 'how many children do you have?' Some get worried and think the priest will ask why I don't have more. I would make a second question, 'Do you play with your children?' The majority say, 'but father, I have no time. I work all day.'

Husbands, love your wives well! Your children are noticing how you treat her. You are teaching your sons how they should treat women, and you are teaching your daughters what they should expect from men.

We spend most of our lives in relationships or bringing up children which are a product of relationships.

We knew the people in Natick and knew the teachers that would be teaching our children. It was important for us to be involved in the Natick community because we think so highly of it.

I'd love to have children, and I think marriage is great, I really do.

I get so much out of being married and raising my kids - that's really important to me.

Being a working mom, you want to make a difference in our schools, which is making a difference in our children and ultimately it's making a difference in our community.

Women have been such an important part of my life. I try, every day, to be a better father to my daughters and a better husband.

I have four children and nine grandchildren. I'm presently wearing out my second wife.

For that is what a child should be, and seldom is, the product of man and woman, of opposing natures, unified, however temporarily, by the amazing, circling, weaving dance of love and lust and God's involvement in it.

We cannot hope only to leave our children a bigger car, a bigger bank account. We must hope to give them a sense of what it means to be a loyal friend, a loving parent, a citizen who leaves his home, his neighborhood and town better than he found it.

The greatest gift you and your partner can give your children is the example of an intimate, healthy, and loving relationship.

A man can only grow to a certain point when alone; to grow further you need some "irrational shocks", like a wife and children; a dramatic change to your own life.

I love my husband more than I love my children.

My goal was to have one husband and seven children, but it turned out to be the other way around.

I want to get married again and have kids and even adopt.

Wherever the citizen becomes indifferent to his fellows, so will the husband be to his wife, and the father of a family toward the members of his household.

My professional life has been about public service. My personal life I define very intently through my family.

I'm from a big family - I'm the youngest of seven - and my wife is one of four. So we always wanted a lot of kids. It's what we're used to, and for us it's what life is all about.

And I would like to marry and have more children. I would like to try and do it right.

I definitely want kids and I want four kids, for sure. But I need to find a husband first!

At one point in my life, I was very involved with social causes. I'm still involved, but now I have a family and it's important to me.

I went to Brooklyn College and met this beautiful Jewish girl named Merle, with dark hair, exotic looking and brilliant. So we got married and had three children.

The Lord has been there from wanting to be a momma, to having a wonderful childhood life and dreaming of having a good motherhood as a child; always wanting to meet a good old country boy and having someone to love as much as I love my husband Roland and having a little boy that is a mixture of the both of us.

When you have little kids, you lose friends because you're so busy, but as they get older, you realise how important it is to have your girlfriends around.