Partner Quotes: Inspiring Words on Togetherness and Teamwork

"We need to redefine the role of the teacher from that of the transmitter of knowledge to that of a researcher, co-learner, and partner in the process of constructing knowledge"

Loris Malaguzzi, Teacher

"I'm lucky in having found the perfect partner to spend my life with"

Sara Paretsky, Author

"If your partner wants to be private, you have to respect that"

Billie Jean King, Athlete

"That first writing session, what Dan Hill calls a creative blind date, is always a real challenge, and you bring that back to your partner when you return to writing with them"

Cynthia Weil, Musician

"Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day"

Barbara de Angelis, Writer

"All of the material for 'The Fine Line' was created via improvisation with my partner, but not in front of an audience. We'd continue to refine it in front of an audience based on their responses until it was set and scripted"

Douglas Wood, Writer

"When you think about it, we actors are kind of prostitutes. We get paid to feign attraction and love. Other people are paying to watch us kissing someone, touching someone, doing things people in a normal monogamous relationship would never do with anyone who's not their partner. It's really kind of gross"

Megan Fox, Actress

"Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air"

Jack Benny, Comedian

"Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country"

Norman Cousins, Author

"I think life has a way of kicking you in the pants too, but you have to pick up and move ahead, and it certainly helps if you have a good partner in life"

Cheryl Ladd, Actress

"If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner"

Nelson Mandela, Statesman

"Canada has made a strong commitment as a partner in the International Space Station and, like the other partners, wishes to see the assembly of this unique orbiting laboratory continue"

Marc Garneau, Astronaut

"The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime"

Mignon McLaughlin, Journalist

"Overcoming the Cold War required courage from the people of Central and Eastern Europe and what was then the German Democratic Republic, but it also required the steadfastness of Western partner over many decades when many had long lost hope of integration of the two Germanys and Europe"

Angela Merkel, Statesman

"We still have a lot of international partner modules that need to get up there to make it truly the international structure that it will be, and that's highly important; we need to get to where the crew size is bigger"

Linda M. Godwin, Astronaut

"I think it's sort of disrespectful to the partner you're having sex with to talk about it"

Gretchen Mol, Actress

"Radio is not a partner in the industry. I think that the music industry has continued to depend upon radio, but has ended up pandering to a medium that doesn't care"

Don Rose, Radio host

"Daniel was a wonderful and trustworthy partner. And a fine prankster as well"

Madeleine Stowe, Actress

"I don't know if you're married, but sometimes there are times where one is really together with their partner. And then there are times when you're both just in your own thing, but you're there together"

Kyra Sedgwick, Actress

"It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely on it. It's my partner"

Jonas Salk, Scientist

"My first real kiss came when I was 10, and it was in an acting class. I had to do a scene from a movie where someone gets kissed under a tree, and I did not want to do it! But my acting partner wanted me to feel comfortable, so he bought a picnic basket with all these snacks. He made such an effort - and it was cute"

Vanessa Hudgens, Actress

"No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable"

May Sarton, Poet

"In 2000, when my partner Ben Horowitz was CEO of the first cloud computing company, Loudcloud, the cost of a customer running a basic Internet application was approximately $150,000 a month"

Marc Andreessen, Businessman

"You don't have to be married to have a good friend as your partner for life"

Greta Garbo, Actress

"I felt like I was flying without a net. But once I realized that the audience was my partner, I was flying a jet, because the people would allow me to develop the character on stage"

Loretta Swit, Actress

"I hope we can be consummate artists as women or revolutionaries, or whatever women want to be, and also have love, not only for ourselves but from a partner"

Laura Dern, Actress

"In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way"

Iris Murdoch, Author

"You don't stay married for thirty-nine years because of sex or even because of love, but because your partner is a real friend to you, because they respect and regard you"

Olympia Dukakis, Actress

"We have to be thankful considering our number as a family we enjoy very good health generally but you may be sure me and my partner have quite enough to exercise our minds and occupy our attention"

John Hawley

"Mike Tyson would have been a good sparring partner for me and Muhammad Ali because Tyson was a fast fighter and he could punch and throw good combinations"

Larry Holmes, Athlete

"For decades, Japan has been a friend and reliable trading partner with the United States, and I anticipate that relationship will prosper"

Jim Costa, Politician

"You're forced to think about what your goals are and you clarify them because you're taking this journey with another person and you need to be open with your partner"

Sarah Michelle Gellar, Actress

"There's no doubt about it that Mubarak has been indeed a partner with Israel, but there's also no doubt about something else. Conditions in Egypt were getting worse and worse, and it was almost just a matter of time before the popular uprising started"

Anthony Weiner, Politician

"I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner"

Barry Mann, Musician

"So it's mix and match. Hold your line when you really feel something you're saying is wonderful and you really want to get this point across and prove it to your partner by just throwing it into the tape and letting it speak for itself"

Art Garfunkel, Musician

"I am convinced that China needs to be a strong trading partner with the United States long term"

Chris Chocola, Politician

"I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!"

Ted Allen, Entertainer

"Me and my partner, Conway Twitty, cleaned up at the 1972 Country Music Association Awards"

Loretta Lynn, Musician

"The husband - by primitive instinct partly, certainly by ancient tradition - regards himself as the active partner in matters of love and his own pleasure as legitimately the prime motive for activity"

Havelock Ellis, Psychologist

"So I decided to form a production company with my wife and our partner Diane"

Ray Liotta, Actor

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