Marriage Quotes

I think there are a whole host of things that are civil rights, and then there are other things - such as traditional marriage - that, I think, express a community's concern and regard for a particular institution.

You know, there were major problems in my marriage.

Marriage encourages the men and women who together create life to unite in a bond for the protection of children.

In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar - a practice which is still continued.

I oppose a constitutional amendment against gay marriage.

Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.

I do not support a constitutional amendment to prohibit gay marriage.

My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives.

Obviously, the anti-ERA people are tickled about my ordeal because it proves that the ERA breaks up families. When they point out that feminism is a dangerous thing, I just say marriage is pretty precarious too.

Marriage is miserable unless you find the right person that is your soulmate and that takes a lot of looking.

I can look back at different times in my life when I felt I could not find my way out of whatever it was. I'm not necessarily talking about marriage, but I wanted to pack it in. I wanted to disappear. A lot of that has to do with being in the public eye.

I worked with John, but I had enough sense to walk just a little ways behind him. I could have made more records, but I wanted to have a marriage.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.

Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.

Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas married men have done most of the fighting and market work?

When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity.

Marriage is actually really terrifying. It doesn't work for many people.

Sooner or later they are going to live in a New York City where gay marriage is not only legal, but it's common and they don't even notice.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Marriage has been defined by every legislature that has ever sat in the United States from every State, now 50 States, the same way, but now we have unelected judges altering and changing that fundamental institution.

President Bush once said that marriage is a sacred institution and should be reserved for the union of one man and one woman. If this is the case - and most Americans would agree with him on this - then I have to ask: Why is the government at all involved in marrying people?

Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

There was absolutely no strain in marriage. Marc and I understand that this is a business. We have no problem separating our personal life with our personal life. And we have a very strong relationship.

Even if you plan a marriage and a family, you are never quite prepared for the reality versus how you imagined it. In a lot of ways it's better, and in a lot of ways it's worse. That's life, right?

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family.

My view is that marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman. That's the position I've had for some time, and I don't intend to make any adjustments at this point... Or ever, by the way.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.