Keith O'Brien Quotes

There are few more powerful tools for promoting stability than the institution of marriage.

For a healthy society, those laws and conventions should always support marriage as an institution characterised by an openness to children and the responsibility of fathers and mothers remaining together to care for children born into their family.

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

I believe when there are so many forces pulling our society apart, we need more commitment to marriage, not less.

Getting married isn't going to make your relationship better. It's just a ceremony.

We believe that marriage, by its very definition, can exist only between a man and a woman. Moreover, study after study - not to mention common sense - show that children fare better in life when raised in a home with a loving father and mother in a stable, committed relationship.

I believe the home and marriage is the foundation of our society and must be protected.

I don't support gay marriage. I'm just not there, as far as believing in my heart that we should change 2,000 years of social policy in favor of a redefinition of the family.

Protecting the institution of marriage safeguards, I believe, the American family.

I think people want to get married to end their emotional uncertainty. In a way, they want to end powerful feelings, or certainly the negative ones.

All I want to do really is get married and be a matriarch.

In many ways, the crumbling of the institution of marriage is the real 'war on women.' Marriage is the civilizing influence for men and for families.

The institution of marriage holds society together. We can't replace the family.

With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits.

My father married once. I married once. This is a conviction of ours. This is the way we grew up.

Giving public sanction to homosexual marriage ends up redefining marriage, and it's certain to harm children.

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

Marriage has nothing to do with feelings; it just gives children a name.

Marriage still means a lot more in the country I come from than it does here. I don't think there's anything to be gained by it for the couple. But for children I think it's an important thing.

It doesn't matter when you get married as long as it is the right person.

All the research shows that being married, with all its ups and downs, is by far the most effective way of making young men law-abiding and giving them a sense of purpose and self-worth.

Getting married and starting a family has been a lifelong goal and one that I have persevered through different paths up to it!

We will see a breakdown of the family and family values if we decide to approve same-sex marriage, and if we decide to establish homosexuality as an acceptable alternative lifestyle with all the benefits that go with equating it with the heterosexual lifestyle.

Marriages don't last. When I meet a guy, the first question I ask myself is: is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?

People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier.