Husband Quotes - Page 18

• The birth of a child is in many ways the end of a marriage - marriage including a child has to be reinvented, and reinvented at a time when both husband and wife are under unprecedented stress and the wife is exhausted, physically drained, and emotionally in shock. A man's conflict between wanting his child to have a mother and wanting to have the mother to himself is potentially intolerable.

  Susan Cheever

  Mother, Children, Stress

  Susan Cheever (1995). “A Woman's Life: The Story of an Ordinary American and Her Extraordinary Generation”, Quill

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• [On reporters trying to cajole a smile from her husband, Alan Greenspan:] For a Federal Reserve chairman, that was a smile.

  Andrea Mitchell

  Trying, Federal Reserve, Chairman

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• [When asked how many husbands she had had:] My own, or other people's?

  Peggy Guggenheim

  People, My Own

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• Imagination bound us stronger than love. Within its limitless borders we launched ships and love affairs, discovered lost worlds, made buildings and babies, found husbands, wrote letters and Broadway plays. We made ourselves up everyday.

  Marita Golden

  Friends, Baby, Play

  Marita Golden (2008). “Migrations of the Heart: An Autobiography”, p.32, Anchor

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• The wife ought to have the first child and the husband the second, then there wouldn't ever be any more.

  Flora Thompson

  Children, Wife, Firsts

  Flora Thompson, H. J. Massingham (2009). “Lark Rise to Candleford”, p.128, David R. Godine Publisher

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• My husband and I speak an ancient language called grammatical English, and the kids speak a strange dialect which is difficult to decode because it is based on only four phrases: 'Huh,' 'I dunno,' 'It's not my turn,' and 'I do everything around here!

  Teresa Bloomingdale

  Children, Kids, Phrases

  Teresa Bloomingdale (1982). “Murphy must have been a mother!: (and other laws I live by)”, Doubleday Books

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• Being a good human being is very easy: Be a good son, a good husband, a good parent and a good citizen.

  Siddharth Katragadda

  Son, Parent, Citizens

  "The Other Wife: A Novel in Verse". Book by Siddharth Katragadda, 2003.

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• Husbands and wives quarrel a lot more than anyone thinks, and it's oftener about little things than big ones.

  Patricia Wentworth

  Thinking, Wife, Littles

  Patricia Wentworth (2006). “Miss Silver Intervenes”, p.139, Hachette UK

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• My husband is very proud of me and what I do. Which I think is really sweet.

  Nicola Cornick

  Sweet, Thinking, Proud

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• Sisters are the worst. And they are the best. A sister can be awful and complicated and loving and protective and petty and competitive, and when you die she is the person you want beside you holding your hand. Somebody's gotta organize the potluck after the service and you know your husband's not gonna be up to the job.

  Cathy Lamb

  Jobs, Hands, Want

  Cathy Lamb (2009). “Henry's Sisters”, p.96, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• I think we all live dichotomies. I'm a father of three boys and a loyal homebody sort of husband and father. And yet I act in movies and write and direct movies.

  Tim Blake Nelson

  Father, Writing, Boys

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. March 31, 2010.

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• I've never met a person who has more integrity than my husband. I respect that. There's his humor and intelligence, too, and he's really cute, all those things - but if you don't respect your partner, you'll get sick of him.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Cute, Integrity, Sick

  "Michelle Pfeiffer Talks Her Younger And Younger Leading Men", www.huffingtonpost.com. May 3, 2012.

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• Ive always written poetry and lyrics. My first husband, who was a musician, we wrote a bunch of songs together.

  P. J. Soles

  Song, Together, Musician

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• I tell people I'm a stand-up comedian two hours a week. The rest of the time, I'm somebody's husband, I'm somebody's father. I'm a man. I take great pride in that.

  Steve Harvey

  Father, Pride, Men

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Sometimes when I'm going to sleep, I think, 'Oh God, my future husband is out there somewhere and I might know him, or I might not, and I wonder what he's doing and I wonder if he knows me.' I just always think that's so fascinating, that even when you were two years old, your future husband was out there somewhere.

  Emma Roberts

  Sleep, Thinking, Years

  "Exclusive Emma Roberts Interview". Slide 1, www.seventeen.com. April 26, 2011.

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• I personally always find something really scary about watching little girls learning to manipulate their dads by baby talking. Then they grow up and use the same technique on their boyfriends or husbands. That scares me because it's just so sick on so many levels.

  Megan Fox

  Girl, Baby, Growing Up

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am a crazy online shopper. My husband always jokes, Another box arrived! Airplanes used to be my sanctuary for reading books, but now I have to peruse Gilt sales.

  Lisa Ling

  Crazy, Reading, Book

  "Lisa Ling ‘Our America’: Journalist Talks Pregnancy, Gets Candid For HuffPost’s #nofilter". Interview with Kari Friedlander, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 14, 2012.

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• I honestly never had the biological need to reproduce until I met my husband. But by the same token, even if we were unsuccessful, we were totally okay with adopting.

  Lisa Ling

  Needs, Mets, Unsuccessful

  "Lisa Ling ‘Our America’: Journalist Talks Pregnancy, Gets Candid For HuffPost’s #nofilter". Interview with Kari Friedlander, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 14, 2012.

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• For me, I was able to make that statement of faith early on when my career began, so there weren't really a lot of surprises. People around me knew where my husband Ray and I stood as far as my faith went.

  Jodi Benson

  Careers, People, Able

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My husband, who's the greatest actor in the world, can do anything. Look at what he did in The Critic and Oedipus. In every role he gets-he did this in Richard the Third-there's nothing he can't do, nothing. Just nothing.

  Vivien Leigh

  Oedipus, Actors, World

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• When my husband won the Palme d'Or in 2002, I wore the same dress two days in a row. My daughter said, 'Mom! Did you sleep in your dress?' But I think it's cool to wear the same thing. I have to feel comfortable.

  Emmanuelle Seigner

  Mom, Daughter, Sleep

  Interview with Alexandra Marshall, www.harpersbazaar.com. November 15, 2010.

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• ... happy husbands and wives can hear each other say the same thing over and over again without being tired.

  George Eliot

  Tired, Wife, Husband And Wife

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• Villains are usually the worst casuists, and rush into crimes to avoid less. Henry VIII. committed murder to avoid the imputation of adultery; and in our times, those who commit the latter crime attempt to wash off the stain of seducing the wife by signifying their readiness to shoot the husband.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Wife, Adultery, Murder

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.83

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• How men hate waiting while their wives shop for clothes and trinkets; how women hate waiting, often for much of their lives, while their husbands shop for fame and glory.

  Bill Vaughan

  Hate, Men, Clothes

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• If the husband be not at home, there is nobodie.

  George Herbert

  Home, Ifs

  George Herbert (1861). “The poetical works of George Herbert and Reginald Heber: With memoirs. Eight engravings on steel”, p.274

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