Norman Lear Quotes

What has changed for me is that I now have a huge family [Lightfoot has four children, from his first two marriages] - the result of my living.

I'm so grateful for the marriages that I have had. I wouldn't be who I am today if I hadn't had those.

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

A man can only grow to a certain point when alone; to grow further you need some "irrational shocks", like a wife and children; a dramatic change to your own life.

I'm about to turn 60, and most of my memories reside in the brain of my wife.

I have a wonderful husband. I have three amazing kids.

I feel blessed - I am a woman who has been able to work in the entertainment business for five decades. I don't want to age, but I would never take back a year for the wisdom I've gained in that time.

I got a few marriage proposals in my 20s. I just wasn't ready. I just knew if I committed, I would've wound up doing something wrong, messing it up. I still felt like I had some living to do.

I first met my husband when I was 15. He was very cool, in a band, all that kind of thing, but he took a long time to grow up. Our paths crossed again 10 years later, and after about two weeks I knew that was it. I'm glad I met him when I did, even though I was fairly young. Because I think sometimes you can crystallise into singledom.

When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff. It's funny now to think about it - that a friend getting a job or something had anything to do with me... I think that my relationship with my wife has played a pivotal role in the chilling out of Aaron.

And I would like to marry and have more children. I would like to try and do it right.

When I look back at the pictures of our blended family the day Vince and I married, he and I are smiling, and all the children are frowning.

I went to Brooklyn College and met this beautiful Jewish girl named Merle, with dark hair, exotic looking and brilliant. So we got married and had three children.

When I was married, I wasn't loving myself. Now I'm in love with myself. I will get married again.

Pippin chooses love and finds a greater sense of himself at the end of all the madness. I relate to him in many ways. I have been through stuff, thought I knew best, and often been proven wrong.

Meanwhile I married and I adopted three kids who were all from one family and then later I was divorced.

I fell in love with my wife twenty years ago. I am only now, it seems, getting it through my very thick skull how lucky I am.

I always wonder when it was that I was embraced.

It is so important that you don't stay with someone just for the children and for the wrong reasons.

If I did not have my wife, I wouldn't be married, I wouldn't have the life that I have and I wouldn't have my wonderful baby boy who's not a baby anymore - he's going to be eight-years-old.

I was a late starter on the romantic front. I didn't start dating until I was in my 30s.

I thank God I didn't become successful until I was older.

Love is a big thing - it's part of who you become, how you grow up. I had a wonderful husband, and I'm very lucky I have a second wonderful husband. You know, some people don't even score the first time.

Before I got married, I dated the gamut.

Love them for who they are, and what they are they are; they are not you. Good stuff, isn't it? You have to live 73 years to get that.