Bob Hoskins Quotes

Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society.

Monogamy is desirable for many reasons, especially in creating a stable, emotionally connected home for children. But judging from centuries of human behavior, it is also a very difficult standard to meet.

Passion, sexual passion, may lead to marriage, but cannot sustain marriage. The purpose of marriage is the raising of children, for which patience, not passion, is the necessary foundation.

The foundation of family - that's where it all begins for me.

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

For me, the highest level of sexual excitement is in a monogamous relationship.

If you want to find somebody and you want to be married and you want to have children, don't make it a rock star.

I like marriage. I feel very secure. It helps when you are in love with the person you are married to.

My mom, Emilie, always taught me to think hard about marriage.

My parents have been married for 42 years. Their marriage has been - from what I can see - a happy one.

Marriage is about love, but it is not first and foremost about love. First and foremost, marriage is about continuity and transmission.

I love being married.

My wife - I married my onscreen girlfriend from 'Growing Pains', Mike Seaver's girlfriend, and we've been married for 17 years - so marriage is very important to us.

It's lovely being a parent and being in a strong marriage with somebody who is your best friend.

Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.

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.

If the woman in my life, the one that I felt I loved enough to want to marry, loved my children, I'd know then that her love for me was deeper than I could hope for.

I have a fantastic wife, and not only in terms of external beauty. Her priority and mine is our children. That is our choice.

I had met my now wife, Sheryl, and was attempting my first try at monogamy, which was not really in my nature at the time, and I wasn't able to do it.

My first priority is to my wife, as hers is to me, and to our child.

I cohabited for 20 years with my longtime husband and father of my two now-teen daughters in a stable family household.

I believe a lot in monogamy, let me tell you.

I think that enduring, committed love between a married couple, along with raising children, is the most noble act anyone can aspire to. It is not written about very much.

My parents have been together since 1963, so that's something.

I'm in a monogamous relationship and very happy.