Gordon Brown Quotes

I consider myself very fortunate. I have a beautiful wife who supports my work and is raising our daughter when I'm out on the road.

I have been looking after the children. My wife has taken time off.

I have thought you could not give everything to your books and also to your children, so for a long time, I thought if I had a child or a family, I'd think, 'How would I support them?' because basically I would stop writing.

For me, having it all doesn't mean having the corner office at work and a penthouse at home if there aren't kids running around as I'm trying to cook my husband something special.

My judgement is not good when I am on a book tour. I am not thinking about it that much. What happens is I will go back home. I have a 4-year-old and a 1-year-old and a wife who is now taking care of them who is wondering where her husband is.

Well, I love having kids. But I have the advantage of having a lot of help, a real hands-on husband and small children whom I can easily manipulate.

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

I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.

I'm a nice, happily married wife and mom and I live in Connecticut.

I couldn't be touring unless my husband was on the road with me, taking care of our son while I'm onstage and doing interviews.

My mom and dad met at Anaheim High School. After they got married, all they wanted to do was have four children, and they did.

I wanted some family structure and stability, and that's what The Partridge Family afforded me, not only financially but in the fact that I could be at home with my kids.

And since I just turned 32, I'm thinking about getting married, having a family, and that's very difficult to do on the road as a correspondent.

Women who maintain jobs outside their homes … weaken family life, endanger their own marital happiness, rob themselves of man’s protective capabilities, and by consequence decrease the number of children. The principal evil in women’s work is that it alienates the life of the wife from the life of the husband …

When I decide I want to have children with somebody, I think it would be nice to be married to that person.

It's nice to predict your schedule, especially with a child. It's nice to have work and be in a stable place, which isn't always easy for actors.

I want to have kids and a hot husband.

I feel like I'm the kind of guy that would have kids before getting married. The first thing would be kids.

It's obvious that getting married and having children is a matter of personal freedom.

I think having a strong wife and having a solid family are things that have helped me out a lot.

Many social conservatives want to encourage married couples to have children, and it is becoming increasingly difficult if the couple feels strapped and concerned with being penalized by their employer for having children.

I think going to university, getting married, having children, and then having the choice to stay at home to raise those children is a very valid one for women and they shouldn't be castigated for it. It's a great job. Not many men would do it.

There is a right time for everything. There was a time when I wanted to settle down and have a family. I wanted to give time to my kids. I had worked for nearly 19 years when I got married.

I wasn't going to shy away from getting married when I did and having a baby young and starting a family, even with the job that I chose.

When I got married, the idea of starting my own family was at the top of my list.