Marriage Quotes

"Marriage to Fernando offered shelter and security, but the shackle was the price I'd pay"

"A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not"

Dalton Trumbo, Novelist

"I think marriage and athletes is a bad combination"

Dennis Rodman, Athlete

"President Bush has a record of cutting taxes, has provided a prescription drug benefit for seniors, has upheld the Second Amendment and remains committed to stopping liberal activists judges who are redefining marriage"

Bill Shuster, Politician

"Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death"

Jackie Kennedy, First Lady

"Like me, the great majority of Americans wish both to preserve the traditional definition of marriage and to oppose bias and intolerance directed towards gays and lesbians"

Mitt Romney, Politician

"I feel very deeply about the need to respect and tolerate people of different social - or sexual orientation. But at the same time, I believe marriage should be preserved as an institution for one man and one woman"

Mitt Romney, Politician

"Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty"

Ron Paul, Politician

"Marriage is a great institution"

Elizabeth Taylor, Actress

"Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit"

Seamus Heaney, Poet

"Marriage is a gamble, let's be honest"

Yoko Ono, Artist

"Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps"

Joe Murray, Artist

"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, Actress

"Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end"

Alphonse Karr, Critic

"I finally got a chance to talk to my daughter from my previous marriage. I just got married May 3 to my beautiful wife, but we don't see each other much"

Peter Criss, Musician

"So far, 44 States, or 88 percent of the States, have enacted laws providing that marriage shall consist of a union between a man and a woman. Only 75 percent of the States are required to approve a constitutional amendment"

Jack Kingston, Politician

"If we change the definition of marriage to be more inclusive, then it is logical to argue that we should broaden the definition so that won't exclude anyone"

Jack Kingston, Politician

"We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage"

Robin Morgan, Activist

"Their lives have been largely defined by failure and you would think the prospect of marriage, which is supposed to be bountiful and hopeful, it's just really another kind of tangential thing in his life"

Thomas Haden Church, Actor

"Legislation to create a new 10 percent tax bracket, reduce the marriage penalty, cut the tax rate on dividends and capital gains, and increase the child tax credit have been essential elements in this economic expansion"

Roger Wicker, Politician

"Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished"

Randy Neugebauer, Politician

"Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of the definition of a marriage as between one man and one woman"

Randy Neugebauer, Politician

"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"

Paul Martin, Politician

"I rise today in support of Bill C-38, the Civil Marriage Act. I rise in support of a Canada in which liberties are safeguarded, rights are protected and the people of this land are treated as equals under the law"

Paul Martin, Politician

"But I wanted marriage for myself. I was not calculating about it. I wish I was more calculating"

Linda McCartney, Photographer

"But I think it's up to a local congregation to determine whether or not a marriage should be blessed of God. And it shouldn't be up to the government"

Tony Campolo, Clergyman

"I never thought I'd spend all my life with Gary. I suppose I was quite cynical about marriage. But with Jude, I knew right from the beginning: there was an electricity I'd never felt before. It was so easy, we talked for hours. It was a relief, really"

Sadie Frost, Actress

"In the 1960s we were fighting to be recognized as equals in the marketplace, in marriage, in education and on the playing field. It was a very exciting, rebellious time"

Marlo Thomas, Actress

"During last night's debate, John Kerry and John Edwards were so friendly to each other some political experts think that they may end up running together. In fact Kerry and Edwards were so friendly, President Bush accused them of planning a gay marriage"

Conan O'Brien, Entertainer

"Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius"

Warren Beatty, Actor

"I think that two people who decide to live together in a marriage situation, they have an obligation to make the marriage work for them"

Helen Reddy, Actress

"It won't take 40 years for opposition to same-sex marriage to dissipate"

Mary Cheney, Celebrity

"I have a terrific marriage, but unlike a lot of relationships where they ebb and flow, no matter what happens you fall deeper and deeper in love every day. It's kind of the best thing that can happen to you. It's thrilling"

Hugh Jackman, Actor

"I don't think he cheated on me. During the marriage, I think he was there"

Marla Maples, Actress

"I was glad to hear of that determination as I detest the practice of cousins marrying or any marriage between persons in which there can be traced the most distant relationship. I go for the improvement instead of the deterioration of our race"

Ezra Cornell, Businessman

"Although we hardly see each other off the set, Joy and I get along well when we do. As far as the marriage between Nathan and Haley, I think they are young and will see the reality of the situation eventually"

James Lafferty, Actor

"God invented concubinage, satan marriage"

Francis Picabia, Artist

"I believe I went through a divorce. My relationship with Ellen is no less significant as a marriage than my relationship to Coley"

Anne Heche, Actress

"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, Activist

"For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end"

Catherine Zeta-Jones, Actress

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