Rick Nielsen Quotes

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.

I do tend to look back to my parents generation and think wow! what a great way to be, to live with one person for a lifetime, to bring your kids up in these really solid families.

I don't like dating or just living with a woman. I like to create a relationship, a marriage. And almost all of my marriages have involved children, so I'm really a family man as well.

At a time when the American family is threatened as never before, redefining it away from the union of one man and one woman only promises to weaken it as a child-rearing, values-conveying institution.

Would I like kids? If I knew I could be - and how could I put this delicately - faithful, then yes. I do like kids.

You were born to lead as mothers and fathers, because nowhere is righteous leadership more crucial than in the family.

The main interest of most members of the Christian Coalition is the breakdown of the family. I think that's our biggest problem, and if the whole country was as concerned and active in issues of the family as members of the Christian Coalition are, we'd probably be better off as a country.

I think people need to commit to one another before they commit to bringing children into the world because that's the optimum arrangement for children, not to take anything at all away from women who have to rear their children by themselves.

The reality of marriage as the union of a mother and a father is grounded in our very biology.

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.

Frankly, one of the problems we have in the country is we're not forming enough families. And that is hurting our economic work, and it's hurting our economic projections, because the best place for a child is within a strong family unit.

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

My wife Jenny and I have four young children of our own.

Children live in the only successful Marxist state ever created: the family. 'From each according to his ability, to each according to his need' is the family's practice as well as its theory. Even with today's scattershot patterns of marriage and parenting, a family is collectivist to a more than North Korean degree.

Thousands of years of human history have shown that the ideal setting for children to grow up is with a mother and a father committed to one another, living together, and sharing the responsibility of raising their children.

Marriage is no longer the main way in which societies regulate sexuality and parenting or organize the division of labor between men and women.

I have a wife who's a great mom.

You can't have a child just to keep a relationship together, can you?

Families are the bedrock of our society.

Marriage, the family unit, was the "original Department of Health, Education and Welfare."

Little by little I changed my mind, and when I was about eighteen, I began to consider the possibility of getting married. Not to have a husband, but to have children.

I married my wife and she brought these two amazing kids into my life, and we were realizing, God there's nothing out there in fiction about blended families.

If you believe, if you value and treasure and revere the institution of marriage, then you should want every family unit to be really wrapped in marriage.

I love my kids, I'm a proud father, a happy husband, and all of that. I live my life with my wife as a normal person, and that's that.