Andrew Whitworth Quotes

I am a historian. With the exception of being a wife and mother, it is who I am. And there is nothing I take more seriously.

A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.

I look after two people - my wife and my son.

I just can't. I'm married. I made my bed and now I have to lie in it.

Marriage is not a word; it is a sentence.

The WWII generation shares so many common values: duty, honor, country, personal responsibility and the marriage vow " For better or for worse--it was the last generation in which, broadly speaking, marriage was a commitment and divorce was not an option

A man with wife and daughters has no place losing his temper.

You live with someone, you make a commitment to honor them, respect them, and love them, and if you're going to have children, then you make a commitment to raise those children together. Why does the state have to get involved with that?

At this point of my life, I'm not out to protect anybody. I'm out to protect seven people, and they all have the last name Armstrong.

Marriage is by nature a covenant, Not just a private contract one may cancel at will.

What kind of wife would I be if I left your father simply because he was dead?

The most important step you have made or will make in your life is marriage. Its consequences are many, so important and so everlasting.. No other decision will have such tremendous consequences for the future.

I imagined that the priestly ceremony was perfect sanctification, and that the sin of sins was for either husband or wife to be false to that relation.

It is impossible to unsign a contract, so do all your thinking before you sign.

I have to look to my wife.

My wife and I are both Libertarian; she was a Democrat and I was a Republican, and we both met in the middle somewhere.

In everything I do, my children come first, and my husband. I just think it's so important to maintain family stability.

Change everything except your wife and kids

Sometimes I think marriage licenses should be like driver's licenses. They expire after a number of years, and in order to keep going you have to renew. Wouldn't that be kind of genius? It would force you both to look at the relationship, and if it's not working, the marriage would expire so you could go on your merry way, or on the positive side of it, you could look at each other and say we really want to renew. What a way to keep it fresh!!

Now I take care of my mother, my father, and my entire family, as well as myself, my woman, and my team that I consider family.

My wife's not some doobie to be passed around! I took a vow on our wedding day to bogart her for life.

[Matrimony] is the grave of love.

I'm not saying you have to be married to be a good footballer. I'm just saying it felt strange to come to a club where there are only three members of the first-team squad that are married. You need responsibility in life.

Not rarely, and this is especially true of wives and mothers, the motive behind assuming a disproportionate share of work and responsibility is completely unselfish. We want to protect, to spare those of whom we are fond. We forget that, regardless of the motive, the results of such action are almost always destructive and unproductive.

Read carefully anything that requires your signature. Remember the big print giveth and the small print taketh away.