941 private quotes tagged marriage

“More than 1.1 million taxpayers in Pennsylvania will enjoy a lower tax rate, more than 1.4 million married couples will benefit from the reduction in the marriage penalty, and more than 1.1 million parents will have the advantage of an increased child tax credit.”— Tim Murphy

“My parents have a wonderful marriage, for many years. But I can't commit myself for such a long time.”— Kim Wilde

“It's very different than it use to be. I think everybody has a lot more experience in how to be in a relationship - whether it's a marriage or a significant other or a business or a friend.”— Kathy Valentine

“Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats.”— Marge Piercy

“When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this was, biology and anthropology. I was around 16 years old when I made this particular choice of academic pursuit.”— Donald Johanson

“In those days, the late 1970s, one of the leading politicians was a soon-to-be uncle by marriage of Arnold Schwarzenegger, named Ted Kennedy.”— Michael Kinsley

“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.”— Sonia Johnson

“I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.”— Vera Brittain

“The president strongly believes that marriage in this country ought to be between a man and a woman. He also believes it is something that ought to be decided by the people. He doesn't believe that judges ought to impose their will on the people.”— Ken Mehlman

“Writing and singing does give me some kind of release from the demons of my past, it is a therapy of sorts, but to be honest, my marriage played a more important role in the acceptance of myself than performance has ever done.”— Michelle Shocked

“The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.”— Harriet Martineau

“A band is not a marriage. There are no oaths of allegiance. If you feel your life will be better served by splitting up the group, you've got to do it - but of course it does cause problems.”— Steve Winwood

“I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.”— Carla Bruni

“I love being in a relationship, but marriage isn't for me.”— Arsenio Hall

“Well I don't know that I'm okay any more than anyone else is okay, I lead a happy life and a very full one - I have a happy marriage and my kids are all cheerful, and no one is finding fault with me, personally.”— L. Ron Hubbard

“It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership.”— Mary Augusta Ward

“All I know is it destroyed my family, it destroyed my marriage to Sylvester and I will never get over it.”— Brigitte Nielsen

“I've never really been very good at marriage. It's one of my failures. I've tried my best, but I do realise the common denominator is me it's something I'm doing.”— Len Goodman

“Marriage is another trap. If you are someone who likes independence, it's another stamp against that. And you have to swear to fidelity.”— Carla Bruni

“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

“Marriage is important to me and I love the idea of being married.”— Nicole Appleton

“Heather knows why and when her marriage ended with Richie and she knows why my marriage ended with Charlie.”— Denise Richards

“My marriage was breaking up, and my marriage with Chong was breaking up. I had to come back and kind of start on my own again.”— Cheech Marin

“Marriage, like death, is a debt we owe to nature.”— Julia Ward Howe

“When I got political that blew our marriage out of the water. I was not the same person and I admit that.”— Michael Moriarty