Wife Quotes - Page 24

• I'm just like any other regular mum; cooking, cleaning, wiping butts, picking up after kids, being a wife and helping the kids with their homework. Mind you, I'm terrible at maths. I can't even do my six-year-old's maths homework with her.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Kids, Math, Years

  "Rihanna, David Cameron, Chloe Green: stop pretending you're one of us" by Sarfraz Manzoor, www.theguardian.com. December 26, 2011.

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• I just look for interesting supporting-biggish supporting parts, and try to do one a year, and that's my limit. Some women can do it and that's fantastic, but I can't. You make choices as a wife and mother, don't you? You can't have it all. I don't care what it looks like.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Mother, Years, Interesting

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• A western buckaroo, I share his scorn for people who go camping by the book, relying on the authority of some half-assed assistant scoutmaster whose total experience outdoors probably consists of two overnight hikes and a weekend in the Catskills. But we have just had that confrontation. The one who goes by Pritchard's book is Sid's wife, and I am wary. It is not my expedition. I am a guest here.

  Wallace Stegner

  Book, Weekend, Two

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• How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex?

  Mary Astell

  Sex, Men, Opinion

  Mary Astell, Patricia Springborg (1996). “Astell: Political Writings”, p.57, Cambridge University Press

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• My ultimate joy and happiness is being a wife and mother.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Mother, Joy, Ultimate

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• My wife works harder than anyone else with the children around the house. I make the money, sure, but she does everything else.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Children, Hard Work, House

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• I adopted a healthier diet. I take at least a tablespoon of apple-cider vinegar a day. It's an old wives' tale, but it really is one of the best things you can put in your mouth.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Apples, Vinegar, Mouths

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• At the end of the day, what I cherish most are the human relationships. With the unfailing support of my wife and partner I have lived my life to the fullest. It is the friendships I made and the close family ties I nurtured that have provided me with that sense of satisfaction at a life well lived, and have made me what I am.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Ties, Support, The End Of The Day

  Lee Kuan Yew (2013). “The Wit & Wisdom of Lee Kuan Yew”, p.160, Editions Didier Millet

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• I'm a polygamist. I can afford to have as many wives as I can afford to have. All Africans believe in it. My dad has four wives.

  Akon

  Dad, Believe, Four

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• Both my wife and I have a lot of compassion for animals in general.

  Biz Stone

  Animal, Compassion, My Wife

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• My wife is Dutch and very independent. She never wanted or needed to be married.

  Julio Iglesias

  Independent, Dutch, Married

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

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• My wife cooks. I can't cook. I can remix leftovers pretty good, though.

  Big Boi

  Leftovers, Remix, Cooks

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

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• My first wife was a brunette, and Barbi Benton, my major romantic relationship of the early 1970s, was a brunette. But since the end of my marriage, all of my girlfriends have been blonds.

  Hugh Hefner

  Girlfriend, Firsts, Brunette

  "Being Hugh Hefner: The Playboy founder dishes on his love for blonds, Viagra and morality". Interview with Jacob E. Osterhout, www.nydailynews.com. August 1, 2010.

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• My wife, well she has extensive experience, because before becoming the first lady, she was the wife of the CEO of a large conglomerate. So I have very high hopes that she will carry out her job successfully as first lady of the Republic of Korea.

  Lee Myung-bak

  Jobs, Korea, Republic

  "Talk Asia" with Anjali Rao, edition.cnn.com. April 18, 2008.

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• I had a fiery affair with George Harrison's wife, Pattie Boyd.

  Ronnie Wood

  Affair, Fiery

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• Sometimes the person that excites you most isn't necessarily going to make the best husband or wife. It takes a lot to see past the glamor and glitter when you're looking to get married and look for someone who's going to be a loving companion that will stand by your side no matter what and better you while also seeking to be bettered by you.

  Omar Suleiman

  Husband, Past, Your Side

  FaceBook post by Omar Suleiman from Mar 15, 2015

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• My cousins and I used to play Beatle wives. We all wanted to be married to Paul, but John was O.K. too. None of us wanted Ringo. Or even worse, George.

  Ann Hood

  Cousin, Play, Married

  Ann Hood (2009). “Comfort: A Journey Through Grief”, p.66, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I'm used to getting up at 7, getting breakfast, getting the kids off to school, and doing the mommy thing and the wife thing and the daughter thing.

  Anita Baker

  Daughter, School, Kids

  "Anita Baker Back After 10-Year Hiatus". www.foxnews.com. September 12, 2004.

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• Take the so-called standard of living. What do most people mean by "living"? They don’t mean living. They mean the latest and closest plural approximation to singular prenatal passivity which science, in its finite but unbounded wisdom, has succeeded in selling their wives.

  e. e. cummings

  Mean, People, Selling

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• It were better to be a soldier's widow than a coward's wife.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Military, Soldier, Coward

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1911). “The writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich”

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• A man's greatest moment in life is when his enemy lays vanquished, his village aflame, his herds driven before you and his weeping wives and daughters are clasped to your breast.

  Genghis Khan

  Daughter, Military, Men

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• As a footballer's wife, I take great exception to the way we are portrayed in Footballers' Wives.

  Karren Brady

  Soccer, Football, Media

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• Being thick isn't an affliction if you're a footballer, because your brains need to be in your feet. And Beckham works hard, he's brave and he crosses a ball superbly. He treats a football like he does a wife, lovingly, with caresses.

  Brian Clough

  Soccer, Football, Hard Work

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• I was from such a large family that when I first met my wife, I told her: 'You can go work outside of the house and I'll stay home and continue making my cartoon strips. Maybe I'll make some commercials nearby, you know I'll do anything locally, but I would love to just stay at home and raise the kids like I did when I was growing up.'

  Robert Rodriguez

  Growing Up, Home, Kids

  "Robert Rodriguez Interview" by Daniel Barna, www.askmen.com.

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• I'm on a search for my future ex-wife.

  Richie Sambora

  Ex Wife, My Future, Exes

  "Richie Sambora Ready to Meet His 'Future Ex-Wife'". Interview with Mary S. Park, people.com. February 20, 2011.

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