941 private quotes tagged marriage

“I'd love to have children, and I think marriage is great, I really do.” — Jennifer Jason Leigh

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“I'm a little skeptical about using the Constitution this way, but I also believe marriage is between a man and a woman and that the courts shouldn't legislate this matter.” — Pete Coors

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“You're not just going out there, maybe sacrificing your own life. There's also sacrifices still going on at home. You can serve in the military and have a good marriage, but you just need to be aware of it so you can take those steps to take care of it.” — Chris Kyle

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“It's very trying on a marriage when you're doing a one hour show, week after week after week. You don't have enough time for people that maybe you should have top priority.” — Gavin MacLeod

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“I had only two offers of marriage in my life, and I refused both.” — Catherine Helen Spence

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“My father was a Catholic, but my mother wasn't. She had to do that weird deal you do as a Catholic - they deign to sanction your marriage and you have to bring your children up as Catholics.” — Jared Harris

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“The state's interest in marriage is stability. Generally speaking, polygamy does not work for stability. Inherent in the whole polygamous movement is a deep and abiding misogyny and denigration of women. So polygamy is objectionable on lots of grounds.” — Gene Robinson

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“Stability is why society has an interest in marriage.” — Gene Robinson

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“Instead, I think over the years we have cut the strength of marriage and relationships by the law and weakened the institution. We have tried to deal with relationships with no-fault divorce, with child custody, with so many other avenues and it has not helped.” — Timothy Murphy

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“College is a place to keep warm between high school and an early marriage.” — George Gobel

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“Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become.” — Coretta Scott King

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“I found marriage somewhat stifling. I don't know that I am the kind of man who ought to be married.” — Burt Lancaster

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“To us marriage is first, everything else is second.” — Julie Benz

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“What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters.” — Alfred Russel Wallace

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“The most important thing for a good marriage is to learn how to argue peaceably.” — Anita Ekberg

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“My parents had a wonderful marriage, but it was a very dependent relationship. My mother was entirely dependent on my father because that's how it was in those days.” — Erika Slezak

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“I have been doing marriage counseling for about 15 years and I realized that what makes one person feel loved, doesn't make another person feel loved.” — Gary Chapman

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“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.” — Rachel Griffiths

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“I routinely never discuss my marriage. It's nice to have things in my life that are totally mine.” — Ryan Adams

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“When I got married in my twenties, I had a happy marriage and happy kids but at some point in time I let it go off the rails I let it go off the rails.” — Stuart Rose

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“I'm not that big a fan of marriage as an institution and I don't know why women need to have children to be seen as complete human beings.” — Marisa Tomei

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“Clearly, if it is sensible to hold a referendum on independence, it is crucial that we have one on marriage. It is the only way the country can move forward on this issue. Let all those who have a view on this subject place their trust in the Scottish people and let Scotland decide.” — Keith O'Brien

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“I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy.” — Anne Stevenson

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“The church's teaching on marriage is unequivocal, it is uniquely, the union of a man and a woman and it is wrong that governments, politicians or parliaments should seek to alter or destroy that reality.” — Keith O'Brien

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“The definition of marriage cannot be disputed. It's right there in black and white and it's been the same since the start of Wikipedia.” — Jesse Tyler Ferguson

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