Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jamie Lee Curtis

My mother and stepfather were married 43 years, so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had a very good role model for that. And, you know, it's just a number.

Ruby Dee

That we arrived at fifty years together is due as much to luck as to love, and a talent for knowing, when we stumble, where to fall, and how to get up again.

Rumi

The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you.

Rosa DeLauro

American people stopped to remember the third anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq war. We thought first and foremost of the selflessness, patriotism and heroism by our troops, our National Guard and Reserves.

Robert Bridges

Unto us all our days are love's anniversaries, each one In turn hath ripened something of our happiness.

Stephen Covey

To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground.

Uta Hagen

We had a relationship that lasted 44 years. Herbert and I lived together 10 years before we were married. He always gave me a little heart for whatever anniversary.

Solomon Ortiz

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the Peace Corps as it reached its 45th anniversary on March 1, 2006.

John Milton

Hail, wedded love, mysterious law; true source of human happiness.

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Barbara Mertz

Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.

Jane Hamilton

In the end maybe what marriage offered was the determination of one's burial site.

Susan B. Anthony

Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it. And the only possible way to accomplish this great change is to accord to women equal power in the making, shaping and controlling of the circumstances of life.

Susan B. Anthony

I never felt I could give up my life of freedom to become a man's housekeeper. When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she became a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll. Had I married at twenty-one, I would have been either a drudge or a doll for fifty-five years. Think of it!

Tracy McMillan

Yes, I have 'failed' at marriage - a lot.

Brigham Young

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Dennis Rodman

I think marriage and athletes is a bad combination.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

It is in vain to look for the elevation of woman so long as she is degraded in marriage.

Pablo Neruda

so I love you because I know no other way than this: where I does not exist, nor you, so close that your hand on my chest is my hand, so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

John Piper

The highest act of love is the giving of the best gift, and, if necessary, at the greatest cost, to the least deserving. That's what God did. At the loss of His Son's life to the totally undeserving, God gave the best gift - the display of the glory of Christ who is the image of God.

Ethel Merman

Everything's coming up roses - for me.

Jerry Bridges

Love is costly. T forgive in love costs us our sense of justice. To serve in love costs us time. To share in love costs us money. Every act of love costs us in some way, just as it cost God to love us. But we are to live a life of love just as Christ loves us and gave Himself for us at great cost to Himself.

Sarah McLachlan

Your love is better than chocolate. Better than anything else that I've tried.