Childless Marriage Quotes & Sayings

If i'm louder would you see me? — Niall Horan

GRASS, LIKE NEARLY EVERYTHING else in China, is subject to political interpretation. Historically, the Chinese have taken a dim view of grass. In Peking's parks, the dirt is swept daily, since cleanliness is prized, but gardeners relentlessly uproot any tuft of grass. Grass breeds disease, generations of Chinese have been taught. Additionally, Communist doctrine teaches that grass is decadent, since it is usually associated with leisured classes and generates exploitation - one man hiring another to cut it. — Carl Hiaasen

Men are far more likely to clean things with spit than women are. — Marc Schmatjen

The millennium will not come as soon as women vote, but it will not come until they do vote. — Anna Howard Shaw

I got some very good advice once. That was: You're not talking to a reporter, you're talking to the public. We didn't hide things. They are a little more guarded now. — Marv Levy

...there's few on Earth as can cut a man deeper than his childless wife. — Craig Russell

People don't like change. But make the change fast enough and you go from one type of normal to another. — Terry Pratchett

Cricket more than any other game is inclined towards sentimentalism and cant. — Neville Cardus

Social ascendency, innocently disguised as high fashion, good taste or prestigious expenditure, was the same the world over. — John Keay

The most out-there thing I'm saying is, 'Don't have babies. Don't get married and have kids. Have a larger life than that. — Roseanne Barr

Here is Lady Winchilsea, for example, I thought, taking down her poems. She was born in the year 1661; she was noble both by birth and by marriage; she was childless; she wrote poetry, and one has only to open her poetry to find her bursting out in indignation against the position of women: — Virginia Woolf

You don't have to change. You have to be changed. — Kellyn Roth

I never expected to find myself here, on the edge of the continent
childless, possibly jobless, with broken bones and a broken marriage, citizen of a broken country. But here I am, and I must make something of it. That's really the only choice one has: make something of it, or don't. — Michelle Richmond

Be happy, cried the Nightingale, be happy; you shall have your red rose. I will build it out of music by moonlight, and stain it with my own heart's-blood. All that I ask of you in return is that you will be a true lover, for Love is wiser than Philosophy, though she is wise, and mightier than Power, though he is mighty. Flame-coloured are his wings, and coloured like flame is his body. His lips are sweet as honey, and his breath is like frankincense. — Oscar Wilde

This flour of wifly patience. — Geoffrey Chaucer

We have instant pudding, instant photos, instant coffee - but there are no instant adults. — Jim Trelease

Many heterosexual marriages are childless; many with children break up: they are no guarantee that children will be raised in a house with two parents of two genders. The courts have scoffed at the reproduction and child-raising argument against marriage equality. And the conservatives have not mounted what seems to be their real objection; that they wish to preserve traditional marriage and more than that, traditional gender roles. — Rebecca Solnit

When eyes have died in its gaze, know the heart had died in its blaze. — Anthony Liccione

He knew how the audition was going to affect their lives for the next ten weeks as she slowly lost her mind from nerves and the strain of trying to scrounge precious practice time from an already jam-packed life. No matter how much time poor Sam gave her, it would never be quite enough, because what she actually needed was for him and the kids to just temporarily not exist. She needed to slip into another dimension where she was a single, childless person. Just between now and the audition. She needed to go to a mountain chalet (somewhere with good acoustics) and live and breathe nothing but music. Go for walks. Meditate. Eat well. Do all those positive-visualization exercises young musicians did these days. She had an awful suspicion that if she were to do this in reality, she might not even miss Sam and the children that much, or if she did miss them, it would be quite bearable. — Liane Moriarty

Is it true the green tea they serve in Japan at the end of your meal comes free? — Hiroshi Sakurazaka

Shadow was amused, and a little puzzled, to realize that he was far more concerned about breaking the rules by climbing onto the carousel than he had been aiding and abetting this afternoon's bank robbery. — Neil Gaiman