Since the dawn of time, traditional marriage - the union between one man and one woman - has been the building block of civilization, and at no point in our nation's history has that foundation been under more severe attack than now.
— Jim DeMint
It's like, 'Oh, well of course you want gay marriage, you're gay.' I think when heterosexual people are talking to their peers and they're like, 'This is an equal rights thing,' it's a little bit easier.
— Jillian Michaels
My parents had an arranged marriage, as did so many other people when I was growing up. My father came and had a life in the United States one way and my mother had a different one, and I was very aware of those things. I continue to wonder about it, and I will continue to write about it.
— Jhumpa Lahiri
As I grew up and began identifying myself as a feminist, there were plenty of issues that continued to make me question marriage: the father 'giving' the bride away, women taking their husband's last name, the white dress, the vows promising to 'obey' the groom. And that only covers the wedding.
— Jessica Valenti
In interviews I gave early on in my career, I was quoted as saying it was possible to have it all: a dynamic job, marriage, and children. In some respects, I was a social adolescent.
— Jessica Savitch
Cofounders will endure so much together that their relationship is often compared to a marriage.
— Jessica Livingston
Well, my personal mission statement is that we want marriage equality in all 50 states. We want it not to be a state-by-state issue. We don't want it to be something the majority is voting on. I don't think the civil rights of any minority should be in the hands of any majority.
— Jesse Tyler Ferguson
That is why I fought against abortion and that is why if I were still in the Senate I would be doing everything I could to defend the sanctity of marriage.
— Jesse Helms
I highly suggest marriage to all my friends who are dating.
— Jerry O'Connell
I think Liberty students ought to date a lot without commitment in mind. If you're thinking commitment - and you probably shouldn't until you're a senior - you don't want to start your marriage off under the constraints of poverty and schooling.
— Jerry Falwell
Liberty University will not lend its name or financial support to undermine marriage or to promote abortion.
— Jerry Falwell, Jr.
Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself.
— Jeremy Taylor
There's not a lot of room anymore for what I call 'made-up' drama. The drama comes from real places now - marriage takes work and focus, the kid stuff takes patience and commitment. And if you don't grow as people and as a couple, within all of that, then you've got some real drama.
— Jeremy Sisto
Marriage is amazing.
— Jenny Mollen
I don't plan life. Love, marriage, or relationships can't be pre-planned. Whenever it has to happen, it will happen.
— Jennifer Winget
I'd love to have children, and I think marriage is great, I really do.
— Jennifer Jason Leigh
I don't have this fantasy about marriage anymore. Everyone says it takes hard work. Well, it kind of does - and I'm much more pragmatic about romance than I used to be.
— Jennifer Garner
I'm so wrapped up in my work that it's often impossible to consider other things in my life. My marriage ended in divorce because of this, my relationship with Holly has suffered by this.
— Jim Carrey
I took all my TV experience and what I learned about - by writing and directing and bringing a movie to Sundance - about the realities of the independent film market: 'Transparent' is the marriage of those two situations.
— Jill Soloway
I don't know why, but the older I get the more interested I get in my parents' marriage. And it's interesting to be married yourself, too, because there is an inevitable comparison.
My parents have a wonderful marriage, but they have been together since my mother was 12, married when they were just teenagers and are barely ever separated. They even work together. As a result, I have always thought of marriage as involving the loss of a certain amount of autonomy.
It had not occurred to me that marriage requires the same effort as a career. And unlike a career, marriage requires a joint effort.
I kind of go back and forth about marriage and kids. I feel like, if it's an organic way for me and the right time in my life, then, yeah.
— Jessica Biel
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.
Today the House has a chance to give 25 million married couples the best Valentine's Day gift possible, elimination from the most unfair of taxes, the marriage tax penalty.
— Jerry Weller
Getting a divorce is always horrible because you feel you've failed. Everyone hates to give up on a marriage. You think your family's broken up.
— Jerry Hall
We will see a breakdown of the family and family values if we decide to approve same-sex marriage, and if we decide to establish homosexuality as an acceptable alternative lifestyle with all the benefits that go with equating it with the heterosexual lifestyle.
Liberty University is pro-life and believes that marriage between one man and one woman provides the best environment for children.
He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.
I don't want to get into a debate. I have never talked about my first marriage for that reason. I don't think it would be fair to my daughter. I don't think it would be fair to my second wife. That's the past.
— Jeremy Kyle
My parents divorced when I was 3 years old. They had a lounge act in Las Vegas, where I was born. The band broke up and the marriage dissolved, and my mother, my sister and I moved to Southern California. And I didn't see my dad a lot growing up; he was on the road a lot. I'd see him every couple years.
— Jenny Lewis
Marriage is a beautiful thing if two people work on it and want to be together.
I thought the divorce statistics would never apply to me. I was beyond heartbroken when they did. But I got up and got on with it. I also kept my belief in marriage.
I was obsessed with The Who. I would have accepted a marriage proposal from Roger Daltrey on the spot. I went to all of their shows in San Francisco and some in L.A. That was as close as I got to being a groupie.
— Jennifer Egan
The activists will not stop in trying to impose their extreme views on the rest of us, and they have now plotted out a state-by-state strategy to increase the number of judicial decisions redefining marriage without the voice of the people being heard.
— Jim Bunning
There are repercussions to everything, even advancement and success. And I think that the repercussions to my success was the loss of my marriage.
— Jill Scott
I actually have blissfully romantic views of marriage, because that has been my experience of it.
— Jez Butterworth
A marriage doesn't have to be perfect, but you can be perfect for each other.
— Jessica Simpson
Even when I was dating a man I always said I'd never get married until marriage equality was passed in Australia. It wouldn't feel right.
— Jessica Origliasso
I find it extremely ironic that Bush says that personal opinion should not be a tool in the interpretation of the Constitution, when he's the one who's lobbying for a Constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. If that doesn't stem from personal opinion, I don't know what does.
— Jessi Klein
The Left has pushed immorality to the point we have so-called 'same-sex marriage' and 'transgender' nonsense trampling the rights of Christians.
— Jesse Lee Peterson
Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.
— Jerry Seinfeld
Divorce is not the end of the world. It's worse to stay in an unhealthy marriage. That's a worse example for the children.
Any sex outside of the marriage bond between a man and a woman is violating God's law.
My first marriage ended after 24 years.
— Jerry Della Femina
You can't have a happy family if you don't have a happy marriage.
Riding a bicycle is the summit of human endeavour - an almost neutral environmental effect coupled with the ability to travel substantial distances without disturbing anybody. The bike is the perfect marriage of technology and human energy.
— Jeremy Corbyn
I don't do marriage. I think it's incredibly naff. And I don't like vulgar displays of ostentation.
— Jenny Eclair
Marriage is amazing, and I wish every person on this planet to have a blissful marriage.
The rule with marriage is the less you talk about it the better, as far as I can tell.
