Barbara Bush Quotes

The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.

My parents themselves had a love marriage.

The concept of the strong linkage to the family is breaking down in Western nations.

My parents aren't married. And one of the reasons why they never got married is because they had been married before, and they liked it the way it was. They didn't feel like they needed a piece of paper to be committed. So for me, I know that marriage is not a golden ticket.

When people start reconfiguring marriage, there's no going back.

I don't mind an arranged marriage. The girl my parents choose could be the girl of my dreams.

My parents really wanted me to have an arranged marriage when I was younger, but I think they have updated a bit with the times.

I think it's true about people now being closer to their parents, since the '60s, really. The parents are no longer from a different planet, the 1950s ideas of American family. We could be friends with our parents. After the '60s, it wasn't like a person smoking pot was what the parents would be appalled at.

If they only married when they fell in love, most people would die unwed.

I am a typical Italian; I love the clan. But I don't think about getting married.

Here's the thing: the unit of reverence in Europe is the family, which is why a child born today of unmarried parents in Sweden has a better chance of growing up in a house with both of his parents than a child born to a married couple in America. Here we revere the couple, there they revere the family.

My parents were married for sixty-five years, and I was married for about ten minutes, my first year at Yale Drama School. Something, somehow, didn't get passed on to my generation.

My parents have had a love marriage, so I have made it pretty clear to them that I, too, will have a love marriage.

My parents had an arranged marriage, as did so many other people when I was growing up. My father came and had a life in the United States one way and my mother had a different one, and I was very aware of those things. I continue to wonder about it, and I will continue to write about it.

Marry first, and love will come after is a shocking assertion; since a thousand things may happen to make the state but barely tolerable, when it is entered into with mutual affection.

Cultural standards evolve. The meaning of the public interest also, of course, evolves.

Some of us stay married because we're in competition with our divorcing 1960s and 1970s parents, who made such a hash of it. What looks appealing to us now, in an increasingly frenetic, digital world, is the 1950s marriage.

Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.

I've never really thought I'd get married. It's not that I'm suspicious of it or anything like that, it's just that I don't have a reference for it because my mum wasn't.

Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.

In my kids' school, the married family is an anomaly... which I do think is sad. I do believe in marriage.

We are redefining the concept of marriage to say that fathers are optional.

Marriage has been in a constant state of evolution since the dawn of the Stone Age. In the process, it has become more flexible - but also more optional.

My mother was a disciplinarian. She believed that when young girls start to go out with young boys, they get married.

The traditional family has an intrinsic as well as an instrumental value, and that is the real reason so many conservatives defend it.