“I came seriously close to getting married four times, and each time I backed off in fear or for one reason or another. Each occasion was different, but in hindsight when I look at the people involved, it wasn't a bad thing what I did. I think it may have been more complex had the marriage taken place.” PeopleThinkingLooksMayHas BeensDifferentReasonTakenFourInvolvedMarriedComplexesOccasionsBad ThingsHindsightGetting Married Author:Ratan Tata
“I was four when I started modeling. My mom was very much an off-the-stage mom who knew nothing about the business. She married my stepdad when I was about four, and he had been an actor. Because I was a really smiley kid and could read, which is something they're always looking for, she just decided to give it a shot.” GivingKidsActorsFourStageMomMarriedShotsDecidedMy MomModelingSmileyStepdads Author:Charlotte Arnold
“The public examination of homosexuality in our contemporary life is still so coated with distasteful moral connotations that even a reviewer is bound to wonder uneasily why he was selected to evaluate a book on the subject, and to assert defensively at the outset that he is happily married, the father of four children and the one-time adornment of his college boxing, track and tennis teams.” ChildrenStillsBookLife IsFatherWonderMoralFourTeamSubjectsCollegeMarriedOur ChildrenBoundsTrackContemporaryTennisBoxingOne TimeHomosexualityExaminationEvaluateSelectedReviewersConnotationDistastefulHappily MarriedAdornmentContemporary LifeTennis Team Author:Sydney J. Harris
“In 1860, sixty-three per cent of the couples married in Great Britain had families of four or more children; in 1925 only twenty per cent had more than four.” ChildrenThreeFourCoupleMarriedTwentiesBritainCentsSixtyGreat Britain Author:Thomas Malthus
“THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1894... I met with the Quorum and Presidency in the temple... President Woodruff then spoke... 'In searching out my genealogy I found about four hundred of my female kindred who were never married. I asked Pres. Young what I should do with them. He said for me to have them sealed to me unless there were more than 999 of them. The doctrine startled me, but I had it done.” ShouldSaidDoneYoungFoundPresidentFourMetsMarriedHundredFemaleDoctrineTemplesSpokesPresidencyAprilPolygamyKindredThursdayGenealogy Author:Abraham H. Cannon
“I was so uncomfortable at a party recently when the conversation droned on about women who are constantly getting married. I was on the edge of my chair, close to squirming in embarrassment because I myself was guilty of four husbands. I finally leaned forward and squeaked, 'But one died!” PartyFourHusbandConversationMarriedDiedEdgesGuiltyUncomfortableChairsEmbarrassmentGetting Married Author:Bette Davis
“So yeah, anyway - I'm thirty-four and my mother is desperate for me to get married. She thinks settling down is what you should be doing at thirty-four. How would she like it if I turned to her the day she hits eighty and said: 'Hey, Mum - when are you going to break your hip? All your friends are breaking theirs'?” IfsThinkingShouldSaidMotherMarriageBreakFourMarriedYeahHeyHipsSettlingThirtyDesperateMumEightySettling Down Author:Sue Margolis
“There was never any question about his (Enos Slaughter) courage. He proved it by getting married four times.” FourMarriedSlaughterGetting Married Author:Jack Brickhouse
“I think it's going to take three or four generations of gay people being able to get married before it starts feeling less like we're going through these motions, that we're aping a heterosexual institution.” PeopleThinkingFeelingsAbleThreeFourGenerationsGayMarriedInstitutionsGay PeopleFour Generations Author:Dan Savage
“If I get married I get a tax break, if I have a kid I get a tax break, if I get a mortgage I get a tax break. I don't have any kids and I drive a hybrid, I think I should get a tax break. I'm trying to pay off my apartment so I have something tangible. I actually figured out if I paid off my place my reward would be that I would pay an extra four grand a year in taxes.” IfsThinkingShouldTryingYearsWould BeKidsPayBreakFourTaxesMarriedPaidRewardsExtrasApartmentTangibleMortgageHybridTax BreaksPaid Off Author:Bill Burr
“I had a tremendous upbringing and foundation but as others like me have experienced, when you go to college, mom and dad are no longer there to help guide. There were some moments in college that really cemented my own convictions and beliefs. It was a real period of growth and maturity in my sanctifying process. I got married in college. That was a tremendous blessing. Four years later, we started having children and that gives you a deeper understanding of the Father's love.” GivingYearsChildrenRealMomentsHelpingFatherBeliefProcessUnderstandingGrowthMy OwnFourCollegeMomDadPeriodsBlessingMarriedFoundationConvictionDeeperGuidesLike MeMaturityFour YearsUpbringingHaving ChildrenMom And DadDeeper Understanding Author:Aaron Kampman
“My mother was born in San Juan. So I'm Puerto Rican, Jewish, colored and married to a white woman. When I move into a neighborhood, people start running four ways at the same time.” PeopleWayRunningMovingMotherBornWhiteFourMarriedNeighborhoodJuan Author:Sammy Davis, Jr.
“I love it, to have the same crew. I'm not married. I don't have children. My 17-year-old dog died. I'm kind of on my own. So I really like having the same camera guy for four years. I love looking around and seeing the hair and makeup people who have been there from the beginning.” PeopleYearsKindChildrenHas BeensGuyMy OwnFourSeeingDogHairMarriedDiedCamerasMakeupFour YearsCrewOld DogHair And MakeupDog Died Author:Julianne Moore
“For me the idea was always throw myself into different situations and push your imagination as far as you can to get to where you want to get to. I think a lot of bands make the same record over and over again because they're married to the same three or four people. At some point they've done all they can do with their own imaginations.” PeopleThinkingWantIdeasDifferentDoneThreeCan DoImaginationSituationRecordsFourBandMarried Author:Mark Oliver Everett
“I've been married for four years, and I'm still finding out things about my husband.” YearsStillsFourHusbandFindingsMarriedMy HusbandFour Years Author:Kristin Bauer van Straten
“I got the letter about becoming a Sir in 2000, the same year that Pauline asked me if we could finally get married. My assistant, Colette, called up and it turned out both the wedding and the Buck House ceremony were happening on the same day. I was knighted at 11 and married at four. She became an instant Lady.” IfsYearsHouseFourBecomingMarriedHappeningsLettersInstantCeremonyBucksAssistants Author:Paul Smith
“When you first get married, they open the car door for you. Eighteen years now...once he opened the car door for me in the last four years - we were on the freeway at the time.” YearsFirstsLastsFourDoorsCarMarriedFour YearsEighteenFreeways Author:Joan Rivers
“Pam Anderson and Rick Salomon just got themselves a marriage license. I think before she gets married again Pam needs to slow down and think about whether this is really the man she wants to spend three or four months of her life with.” ThinkingMenWantNeedsThreeFourHe ManMonthsMarriedDown AndSlow DownLicense Author:Chelsea Handler
“My dad also survived five divorces, and the women he married cleaned his ass out every time. I used to think my dad got divorced because he wanted new furniture. At one point in my life, all we had left was a wooden box, a 12 black-and-white TV, and a four-man rubber raft for a couch. And yet, I was the coolest kid in third grade. Mom, can we have a sleepover in Christopher Titus' house? They have a raft in the living room! We can row to breakfast in the morning. I can actually be Captain Crunch!” ThinkingMenI CanKidsWantedUsedHouseLeftBlackWhiteRoomsMorningFiveFourTvsMomDadMarriedThirdsMy DadBoxesDivorceAssGradesBreakfastBlack And WhiteCaptainsSurvivedFurnitureDivorcedCouchesLiving RoomRubberCrunchThird GradeSleepovers Author:Christopher Titus
“My mom and dad met at Anaheim High School. After they got married, all they wanted to do was have four children, and they did.” ChildrenWantedSchoolFourMomDadMetsMarriedHigh SchoolOur ChildrenMy MomMom And Dad Author:Gwen Stefani
“I didn't major in anthropology in college, but I do feel I had an education in different cultures very early on. My parents divorced when I was eleven, and my father immediately married a woman with three children and was with her for five years. When they got divorced, he immediately married a woman with four children. In the meantime, my mother married a man who had seven children. So I was going from one family to another between the ages of eleven and eighteen.” MenFeelsYearsChildrenDifferentAgeMotherCultureThreeFatherParentFiveFourCollegeMarriedMajorsOur ChildrenSevenFive YearsDivorcedElevenAnthropologyEighteenDifferent Cultures Author:Lily King
“I'll say - I have four kids! I married a woman when I was 24 years old. She was 13 years my senior. She had been married twice before. I adopted them. I was 24 and had a 17-year-old son instantly, an 11-year-old daughter, a 5-year-old, and a child on the way. So I had to learn how to become a parent very quickly.” WayYearsChildrenKidsParentFourSonMarriedDaughterSeniorAdopted Author:Tony Robbins
“I ... would guess maybe about one or two out of five men is suited for marriage and probably four out of five women are better at marriage than being single and would like to be married.” MenTwoFiveFourMarriedBeing MarriedBeing Single Author:Bill Maher
“Carl Armstrong was one of those people in the anti-war years who had been so convinced of the righteousness of their cause that he and some friends decided they would blow up a building at the University of Wisconsin, in which they said research was being done to help the war against the Vietnamese. What they blew up at three or four in the morning was a young scientist, who was married and had a couple of kids, who wasn't working on war stuff at all. And he was killed.” PeopleYearsSaidWarDoneHelpingKidsYoungThreeCausesStuffMorningFourBuildingCoupleMarriedResearchDecidedScientistUniversityBlowConvincedRighteousnessAnti WarThey SaidBeing DoneArmstrongWisconsinVietnamese Author:Nat Hentoff
“I've learned to become a progressive man because I have four women in my life. And their mother, who I'm not married to anymore, but who impresses me because of our relationship. Because we have a very deep and friendly relationship that is completely about who we really are now. Before it was husband, wife, mother, father. But now it's about who we are as human beings. Because we didn't give up on each other. And because we didn't hurt each other and blister each other from a divorce. We became tight. Best friends. And more than that even, because now we're best parents.” MenGivingHumansMotherFatherParentHurtHuman BeingsFourWifeHusbandGiving UpMarriedDivorceI've LearnedWho We AreFriendlyProgressiveOur RelationshipImpressVery DeepBlistersHusband WifeBest ParentsWife Mother Author:Giancarlo Esposito
“When I stopped performing for 16 years and lived in Michigan and was married and raising my children, I wrote about four or five books. I haven't published them.” YearsChildrenBookFiveFourHavensMarriedMy ChildrenPerformingMichigan Author:Patti Smith
“The Beatles, they had it all figured out, okay? "I Want to Hold Your Hand." The first single. It's effing brilliant, right?... That's what everybody wants, Nicky. They don't want a twenty-four-hour hump sesh, they don't want to be married to you for a hundred years. They just want to hold your hand.” WantYearsFirstsHandsHoursFourMarriedHundredOkayTwentiesBrilliantBeing Married Author:Rachel Cohn
“I had this whole plan when I graduated high school: I was going to go to college, date a few guys, and then meet THE guy at the end of my freshman year, maybe at the beginning of my sophomore year. We'd be engaged by graduation and married the next year. And then, after some traveling, we'd start our family. Four kids, three years apart. I wanted to be done by the time I was 35.” YearsEndsDoneWholeKidsWantedSchoolGuyThreeNextFourPlansCollegeMarriedHigh SchoolOur FamilyEngagedThree YearsNext YearFreshmanSophomoreFreshman YearSophomore Year Book:Attachments Source: Attachments
“Married pixy, I told myself, forcing my eyes back to the shelf of ceramic animals. Fifty-four kids. Beautiful wife, sweet as sugar, who would kill me in my sleep while apologizing for it.” EyeKidsBeautifulSleepAnimalFourWifeSweetMarriedFiftySugarApologizingShelvesKill MeCeramicsBeautiful Wife Author:Kim Harrison