Martin Lawrence Quotes

You have to find a man that's going to respect you. With my husband, I tell him all the time the fact that he grew up in a home with his mom and his dad and they were married until he was grown made him have certain values and certain respect for me.

There are good men out there. There are guys who have their priorities straight, who take care of their kids, who respect their mothers.

I think getting married was a mistake along the way, but at the same time I wouldn't have the wonderful children I have if I didn't get married.

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

I have a wonderful marriage and two great kids.

I want to marry and have kids. The things we all want.

You know, my life's changed now. I'm starting to experience what people are really supposed to do. You supposed to be married. You're supposed to have a family, kids, treat your wife right.

I get so much out of being married and raising my kids - that's really important to me.

I was very proud to be Mrs. Curtis Amy. My thing in life when I married Curtis Amy was being Mrs. Curtis Amy. Career was fine, but I was enthralled with being Curtis' wife. That was very important to me back then, and that's always important to a young lady from New Orleans. That's our upbringing: to be a wonderful wife and mother first.

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

Deep down, I'm a Texas girl looking for that big romance every girl dreams about. Biologically, I look forward to being a cornerstone of a family. I'll be in my glory when I have a child on my knee.

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.

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

I'm a soccer dad at heart. I want five kids, and I want to get married. I want to coach Little League.

I want to be here for a long time, so I am going to do everything I have to do to be here. And I want to walk my daughter down the aisle and give her away to somebody some day. I want to make sure I am still here to make sure my two young sons become men.

Monogamy is a possibility - and a necessity. Kids have got to have something they can rely on. You have got to have something you rely on.

Our crime has been: We married women instead of seducing them; we reared children instead of destroying them; we desired to exclude from the land prostitution, bastardy and infanticide.

He knows my limitations and where I'm a good wife and a good mom.

I have a wife who's a great mom.

Being a good husband and father... that's the most important thing I'm going to do on this earth.

Every day, I will try to be the best husband, dad, and friend I can be.

I don't have a ton of experience, because I date with the intent to marry... It's how I want a family and how I would want someone to treat my daughter.

Strong women, when respected, make the whole society stronger. One must be careful with such rapid changes, though, and make an effort to preserve, at the same time, the positive traditions of Indian culture.

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

There's going to come a time when maybe I have kids and a wife.