Pope Francis Quotes

The foundation of family - that's where it all begins for me.

I'm most proud of the longevity of my marriage, my kids, and my grandchildren. If you don't have that, you really don't have very much.

I surround myself with family. I have got the most incredible wife in the world and unbelievable kids.

As far back as our knowledge takes us, human beings have lived in families. We know of no period when this was not so. We know of no people who have succeeded for long in dissolving the family or displacing it.

My family is my life, and everything else comes second as far as what's important to me.

I can't imagine dating a boy, meeting him only outside the home. What's a home and family for if it's not the center of one's life?

It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never be anyone to go home to.

Families always stay the same, but they always provide more stories.

I'm considered homophobic and crazy about these things and old fashioned. But I think that the family - father, mother, children - is fundamental to our civilisation.

Marriage is a core institution of societies throughout the world and throughout history. It's something that has provided permanence and stability for our very social structure.

Why not celebrate those who want to marry and bring up a family?

I am definitely one of those girls who want to get married. I have two sisters and they are both married with kids, and I'm like, 'Oh, I want that.'

I think it's important to show a husband and a wife together, in a room, raising children, because you don't see that anymore.

Being a son, brother, uncle and brother-in-law is all I care about.

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

I talked about my family, my family's so important.

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

Deep down, I'm a Texas girl looking for that big romance every girl dreams about. Biologically, I look forward to being a cornerstone of a family. I'll be in my glory when I have a child on my knee.

I didn't marry to have children. I married to have a relationship, and I was blessed with one child. I was an only child, too - my mother was smarter than most women today; she just had me.

Well, marriage doesn't function in the way it used to in terms of deciding our fate, but it's in our heads, and it determines a lot of our actions. Like, right now, if you think about gay marriage - and they just started having the first gay marriages in New York - it shows what a potent idea marriage remains for people.

I believe in traditional marriage.

I'm a soccer dad at heart. I want five kids, and I want to get married. I want to coach Little League.

Can anyone seriously imagine a society without stable families? Maybe we should raise all the kids in state orphanages.

If we abandon marriage, we abandon the family.

We don’t want a village to raise a child. We want a family.