Fay Weldon Quotes

If we do not love one another, we certainly shall not have much power with God in prayer.

I love my wife, I love my kids.

I know something about life and being a father and the worries and the fears of bringing up children.

I would be ready to become a dad if I was with the right person. I'd like a boy, though. Because they're in charge.

I would love to do more family comedy.

Family is what matters. The health of my children is No.1. The relationship with my family, my wife, my faith - all of it is easily No. 1.

I try to be a good father, and my kids are the most important thing in my life.

Children grow out of childhood, but parents never grow out of parenthood.

It was so damn hard to find love in this world, to locate someone who could make you feel that there was a reason you'd been put on this earth. A child, I imagined, was the purest form of that. A child was the love you didn't have to look for, didn't have to prove anything to, didn't have to worry about losing. Which is why, when it happened, it hurt so badly.

Love as a relation between men and women was ruined by the desire to make sure of the legitimacy of children.

There are couples who are very fearful of bringing children into the mix because they feel like somehow that link between them as a couple is going to somehow dissolve or become less powerful or whatever. And that somehow the child is going to disrupt their happy stage. Of course it is true, that's exactly what a child does but it's not something to be feared, it's to be embraced.

What the world needs is not romantic lovers who are sufficient unto themselves, but husbands and wives who live in communities, relate to other people, carry on useful work and willingly give time and attention to their children.

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.

I have seven children by six different mothers. Maybe success was too good to me.

We spend our lives trying to get along with people so we can keep our jobs, keep our marriages together, so that we can raise our kids properly.

Being a single mother was the right thing for me. But I have a tremendous amount of help from my friends. They're in love with my kids, and my kids are in love with them.

Something like a divorce does change you, but children change you more, and now I've had three.

I'm happy being single but I definitely want someone in my life. I want to eventually get married and have kids.

My greatest platform is not with all my degrees, everything else, it's not all my books, everything. It's that I'm known as a man who loves his wife and spends time with his children. That opens more; I speak as a daddy.

I believe in God, family, truth between people, the power of love.

Is Valentine's Day a day to make cupcakes with your children? No, Valentine's is supposed to be a day about romantic love.

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

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.

I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship.

It is so important that you don't stay with someone just for the children and for the wrong reasons.