Gregory David Roberts Quotes

In ancient Boeotia brides were carried home in vehicles whose wheels were burned at the door, in token, that they would never again be needed.

I would never get married while my father is still alive because I wouldn't want him to walk me down the aisle.

Who says I'm gonna marry another guy? In Europe it's not like in America, where you set a date.

My observation is that women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.

I've never really thought I'd get married. It's not that I'm suspicious of it or anything like that, it's just that I don't have a reference for it because my mum wasn't.

My grandparents got married at a very young age, and a lot of what I think about marriage is based on their relationship.

Some husbands regard it as their prerogative to compel their wives to fit their standards of what they think to be the ideal.

In Afghan culture, you don't date - you marry. Even talking to boys before marriage brings great shame to your family.

Families are great murderers of the creative impulse, particularly husbands.

For example, when the family is growing up, the farm is handed over to the eldest son, who gives the parents a small allowance during their lives, while the fortune that he gets with his wife goes, not to himself, but to provide for his younger brothers and sisters. Hence, if the eldest son were to marry the Venus de Medici with ten pounds less dowry than he could get with the ugliest wall-eyed female in the neighborhood, he would be considered as an enemy to all his family.

It has been races of marrying men that have made the heroic epochs In human history.

My Welsh grandmother Mair didn't meet my grandfather until she was 28, quite old to be unmarried in the early '40s.

Your wedding day is supposed to be your big day, and yet a lot of engaged couples find that instead of creating an event that will be important to them, they're dodging through a minefield of modern etiquette traps.

People might be surprised because I settled for an arranged marriage, but that's what's chosen for us.

My parents are proof that arranged marriages can work. It is a great part of my culture but I grew up in a completely different place, so I wouldn't want anyone to arrange a marriage for me.

Weddings are such a microcosm of norms, of traditions, and in those traditions, there are a lot of things that have been sort of codified: misogyny and ownership and the patriarchy. So what happens when two very, very disparate families come together for one wedding?

I did not get into a fistfight with my father at my sister's wedding. My sister didn't have a wedding.

The good thing about being gay was always that you didn't have a wedding. People would say, "He's gay, but at least he didn't make us go to his wedding. He didn't make us fly across the country. He didn't make us choose between the fish and the beef."

My father was a patriarch inside a matriarchy, but never knew it.

I love going to weddings. And I love it when my friends get married. I'm not against marriage but it's just not for me. I'm a vegetarian, but I don't have a problem if you want a hamburger.

My mother spoke of Christ to my father, by her feminine and childlike virtues, and, after having borne his violence without a murmur or complaint, gained him at the close of his life to Christ.

Some women are born to be married, some achieve marriage, and others have marriage thrust upon them.

The idea behind the tuxedo is the woman's point of view that men are all the same; so we might as well dress them that way. That's why a wedding is like the joining together of a beautiful, glowing bride and some guy. The tuxedo is a wedding safety device, created by women because they know that men are undependable. So in case the groom chickens out, everybody just takes one step over, and she marries the next guy.

My father established our relationship when I was seven years old. He looked at me and said, “You know, I brought you in this world, and I can take you out. And it don't make no difference to me, I'll make another one look just like you.