Leonidas Quotes

It's so great to love somebody and, out of that, to make a child. So that's my goal.

Appallingly, I hadn't thought about it one jot. I never daydreamed as a little girl of getting married and having children. I was as surprised to discover I was getting married as I was to discover I was up the duff.

Marriage is not about love. It is about a love that can bear children.

As you are not yet married, and as marriage is the fundamental state of life as well as the unity of the commonwealth, make up your mind whether you are called to this state. If you make up your mind to marry, do not marry merely a good wife: marry a good mother to your children.

I'm young but I can't wait to marry and have kids.

I'm a woman. Every woman, I think, wants to get married and wants to have children.

Now, I am thrilled to be a wife and mother, and I hope to be as good of a mother as my own mother, Carole.

I've longed for kids since I was very, very young. And so... I'm waiting to find the right person, someone who's willing to take on the job.

I don't want to see anyone leaving single tonight. I want everyone to leave impregnated.

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

Marriage and being a mother are absolutely crucial to my happiness and my life.

The only thing I've ever wanted in my life is to be a mom and a wife.

I'm just afraid I'm gonna miss it all... being married... being a mother.

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.

I got married because I fell in love with this woman. I had a baby with her because we wanted to have children. But that's not because of some philosophical ideal at all, no.

I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.

I just want Beyonce to be the mother of my children.

Men think that self-sacrifice is the most charming of all the cardinal virtues for women, and in order to keep it in healthy working order, they make opportunities for its illustration as often as possible. I would fain teach women that self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.

Historically, there has been a clear and essential connection between marriage and responsible procreation and child rearing.

Being a wife and mother are the single most important roles in my life. They take a lot of work, a lot of patience, and help from God and His Word, but if you put in the effort, it's more fulfilling than anything on earth.

I married my husband because I loved him, and I don't feel like there's anybody missing from our marriage, but when you think about this person that you love, and you think about what a wonderful thing it would be to bring another person like that into this world, I think that's the hardest part about all of it.

My life has taken on a different course. I've got a responsibility now not just as a husband but as a father.

The most important thing to Ben and me was starting a family, so as soon as we got engaged, we booked Gurney's in Montauk - which is just a few miles down the beach from our summer home - as our wedding venue a full year and a half out, and then we immediately started trying to get pregnant.

I would love to be married. But it's not a necessity like the way that I feel I need and want to have children. It would be wonderful to have a husband, and I would feel blessed to do it. But I would feel sad for the rest of my life if I had no kids.

I've loved it, but I have a wife and two children.