My Husband Quotes - Page 38

• A few years ago one of my wives, when talking about wives leaving their husbands said, 'I wish my husband's wives would leave him, every soul of them except myself.' That is the way they all feel, more or less, at times, both old and young.

  Brigham Young

  Husband, Years, Talking

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• For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.

  Erma Bombeck

  Inspirational, Funny, Marriage

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• I never complain. I chose the road of fighting with the Ukrainian oligarchy in 1996, and have paid for this with my freedom and that of my husband, my father and my close friends.

  Yulia Tymoshenko

  Husband, Father, Fighting

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• I wish I had known that education is the key. That knowledge is power. Now I pick up books and watch educational shows with my husband. I'm seeing how knowledge can elevate you.

  Mary J. Blige

  Husband, Educational, Book

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. May, 2006.

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• If you give your life to a cause in which you believe, and if it is right and just, and if your life comes to an end as a result of this, then your life could not have been spent in a more redemptive way. I think that is what my husband has done.

  Coretta Scott King

  Husband, Believe, Thinking

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• O, if my husband could only love me even a little and not seem to be perfectly indifferent to any sensation of that kind... O my poor aching heart when shall it rest its burden only on the Lord.

  Emmeline B. Wells

  Husband, Heart, Littles

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• My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Husband, Years, Debt

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

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• All I wanted was a little piece of life, to be married, to have children.... I was trying my damnedest to lead a conventional life, for that was how I was brought up, and it was what my husband wanted of me. But one can't build little white picket fences to keep the nightmares out.

  Anne Sexton

  Children, Husband, White

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• I used to be pro-choice."..."I was once pro-choice and the thing that changed my mind was, I read my husband's biology books, medical books, and what I learned . . . At the moment of conception, a life starts. And this life has its own unique set of DNA, which contains a blueprint for the whole genetic makeup. The sex is determined. We know there's a life because it's growing and changing.

  Kathy Ireland

  Sex, Husband, Book

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• You know, when I first went into the movies Lionel Barrymore played my grandfather. Later he played my father and finally he played my husband. If he had lived I'm sure I would have played his mother. That's the way it is in Hollywood. The men get younger and the women get older.

  Lillian Gish

  Mother, Husband, Father

  Quoted in Abby Adams, An Uncommon Scold (1989)

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• I really enjoy doing sitcom television. It allows me to stay in Los Angeles and spend more time with my husband and kids.

  Nancy Travis

  Husband, Kids, Television

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm just not comfortable with that society stuff. I mean, we were just invited to the White House, but my husband won't take me because he knows I don't want to go.

  Pia Zadora

  Mean Girls, Husband, White

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• I'm kind of lazy. I like to lie around with my husband and watch TV and stuff like that.

  Gwen Stefani

  Husband, Lying, Lazy

  "It's Good To Be Gwen Stefani". Cosmopolitain Interview, www.cosmopolitan.com. June 09, 2004.

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• My husband claims I have an unhealthy obsession with secondhand bookshops. That I spend too much time daydreaming altogether. But either you intrinsically understand the attraction of searching for hidden treasure amongst rows of dusty shelves or you don't; it's a passion, bordering on a spiritual illness, which cannot be explained to the unaffected.

  Kathleen Tessaro

  Spiritual, Husband, Passion

  Kathleen Tessaro (2013). “Elegance and Innocence: 2-Book Collection”, p.14, HarperCollins UK

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• When my husband died, people kept telling me not to cry. People kept trying to help me to forget. But I didn't want to forget. [...] So I realize, that if it's hard for me, how much harder it must be for you.

  Katherine Paterson

  Husband, People, Trying

  "Bridge to Terabithia". www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• I've heard it said that winning an Oscar means you live five years longer. If that's true I want to thank the academy because my husband is younger than me.

  Julianne Moore

  Husband, Mean, Winning

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• I must quit marrying men who feel inferior to me. Somewhere there must be a man who could be my husband and not feel inferior.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Husband, Men, Quitting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My husband wanted one of those big-screen TVs for his birthday. So I just moved his chair closer to the one we have already.

  Wendy Liebman

  Funny, Hilarious, Husband

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• I was trained by my husband. He said, If you want a thing done go. If not send. I belong to that group of people who move the piano themselves.

  Eleanor Robson Belmont

  Husband, Moving, Piano

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• I'm not the one who was elected." Although she disagreed with her husband on "a lot of issues," she emphasized, "I would never do anything to undermine my husband's point of view.

  Laura Bush

  Loyalty, Husband, Views

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• And then there's this guy, Barack Obama, who lost - I could take up a whole afternoon talking about his failures, but - he lost his first race for Congress, and now he gets to call himself my husband.

  Michelle Obama

  Husband, Race, Talking

  "Michelle Obama Tells Grads: ‘I Could Take Up a Whole Afternoon Talking About’ Barack Obama’s Failures" by Melanie Arter, www.cnsnews.com. May 20, 2013.

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• I've spent the first part of my life in the shadow of my family. I'm not going to live in the shadow of my husband.

  Martha Wainwright

  Husband, Shadow, Firsts

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• Running gives me a clearer perspective on the world, and it makes me feel special. I've never been a traditional tourist. I've always seen the world by running, and that has allowed me to view things in a different way. Places look different in the early-morning hours, when the streets are deserted.

  Grete Waitz

  Inspirational, Running, Morning

  "On The Run: Exercise and Fitness for Busy People".

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• What's funny is my husband doesn't have any tattoos at all, so he must be the very conservative one.

  Ashley Scott

  Tattoo, Husband, Conservative

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• Before we make love, my husband takes a pain killer.

  Joan Rivers

  Love, Pain, Husband

  "Third and Possibly the Best 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said". Book by R. Byrne, 1987.

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