Marriages Quotes

In those days, man, in the '50s, black people in the South... We didn't recognize contracts that much. And we didn't recognize marriages that much, either.

I've always been comfortable working with women and I've had two happy marriages. Draw what conclusions you like from that.

I was appalled and shocked that Bush used the State of the Union to attack same-sex marriages and indicated that he would support a constitutional amendment.

Provincial governments in Canada have terminated the positions of marriage commissioners who have, for personal religious convictions, not performed same sex marriages. It has happened in Saskatchewan.

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

My daughter is a good, caring, compassionate person. To me that's the true meaning of success, even though the marriages didn't work out. My success with my daughter is all that matters.

All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.

No Congress ever has seen fit to amend the Constitution to address any issue related to marriage. No Constitutional Amendment was needed to ban polygamy or bigamy, nor was a Constitutional Amendment needed to set a uniform age of majority to ban child marriages.

For some of us, watching a miniseries that lasts longer than most marriages is not easy.

I deal with unhappy marriages a lot. I've never been married, I'm single.

I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don't regret it. You make choices. If you want a good marriage, you must pay attention to that. If you want to be independent, go ahead. You can't have it all.

There are two kinds of marriages - where the husband quotes the wife and where the wife quotes the husband.

The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It's the ones that become the friendships that last.

We live in grief for having left the womb, for having left the teat, then school, then home. In my case, it was leaving marriages, and the death of my wife.

In the beginning of the human race there was no genetic load which would cause undesirable traits such as appear in offspring of marriages between relatives today.

I treat my relationships like marriages. The ceremony isn't that important to me.

I mean, we had on our show, we had marriages, divorces and other stuff going on. And that was just me.

I know all about cheating. I've had six very successful marriages.

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more of their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination of people not to live without it.

Sham marriages have been widespread; people have been allowed to settle in Britain without being able to speak English; and there have not been rules in place to stop migrants becoming a burden on the taxpayer. We are changing all of that.

After a while in marriage, it doesn't work anymore. There is something missing, there is something wrong. There are few marriages that stay alive forever. We like something, and after a while, we hate what we used to love.

France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are "made in America."

I do not think our priorities are misplaced when we are looking at creating a whole new class of children from these gay marriages who could end up completely dependent on the State, on the taxpayers - the American people.

The facts are plain: Religious leaders who preside over marriage ceremonies must and will be guided by what they believe. If they do not wish to celebrate marriages for same-sex couples, that is their right. The Supreme Court says so. And the Charter says so.

Most Kikuyu marriages were arranged on the basis of what is described by anthropologists as the bride price.

In Hollywood, all marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes the problems.

She worded it a bit strongly, but I do find myself more and more struck by the differences between the sexes. To put it another way: All marriages are mixed marriages.

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

I'm so grateful for the marriages that I have had. I wouldn't be who I am today if I hadn't had those.

People quit on jobs. They quit on marriages. They quit on school. There's an immediacy of this day and age that doesn't lend itself to being committed to anything.