Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.
— Jack Kingston
Marriage is an institution fits in perfect harmony with the laws of nature; whereas systems of slavery and segregation were designed to brutally oppress people and thereby violated the laws of nature.
In the spring of 1936, I was introduced by friends to Jean Tatlock. In the autumn, I began to court her. We were at least twice close enough to marriage to think of ourselves as engaged.
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane; once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there.
— J. Paul Getty
Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.
— J. B. Priestley
In my mind, marriage is a spiritual partnership and union in which we willingly give and receive love, create and share intimacy, and open ourselves to be available and accessible to another human being in order to heal, learn and grow.
— Iyanla Vanzant
Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.
— Isadora Duncan
Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor - they have children that they don't want or they cannot feed.
— Isabel Allende
One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance.
— Iris Murdoch
Never again! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough.
— Ingrid Bergman
Cross-cultural marriage is difficult, especially when one person has to live in another country. But I thought there was a very good chance of it working because people grow together if they have a common passion.
— Imran Khan
I think marriage and live-in relationships aren't really different. It is just a piece of paper that separates the two.
— Ileana D'Cruz
'New Jack City' was a perfect marriage of music and film. They used a lot of musicians: myself, Christopher Williams. People that were popular because of their music were given the chance to act. And the soundtrack was incredible.
— Ice T
The battle going on over gay marriage in America reveals an awful lot. The Bible belt - people hate gay people. Because the Bible tells them? No, the Bible tells them an awful lot of things that they ignore.
— Ian Mckellen
There are few more powerful tools for promoting stability than the institution of marriage.
— Iain Duncan Smith
My first wife was a brunette, and Barbi Benton, my major romantic relationship of the early 1970s, was a brunette. But since the end of my marriage, all of my girlfriends have been blonds.
— Hugh Hefner
I think marriage is only necessary if you've got children. It's quite nice for them.
— Hugh Grant
Marriage encourages the men and women who together create life to unite in a bond for the protection of children.
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.
My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art.
A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.
There is a lot of healing going on. Really! More people are vegetarians, more are in the green movement, more of us are tearing down the old paradigms and embracing same-sex marriage, single motherhood, men raising babies.
God's word says for a man and a woman to be together, one man and one woman in the covenant of marriage to be together.
— Israel Folau
I had been living in Ohio in my own house with my own life when my marriage abruptly came to an end. I had nowhere to go with my two sons, very little money, and not much to do in Ohio except be someone's ex-wife. My parents instantly and very generously invited my family to move back home to New York, where I could begin again.
— Isabel Gillies
Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
— Irwin Corey
The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.
We didn't know that Mother had gone through a passionate love affair or that Father suffered from severe depression. Mother was preparing to break out of her marriage, Father threatening to take his own life.
— Ingmar Bergman
Marriage isn't important for me. It's just a social announcement where we splurge on feeding a lot of people.
Spanglish is the encounter: perhaps the word is marriage or divorce of English and Spanish, but also of Anglo and Hispanic civilizations - not only in the United States but in the entire continent and, perhaps, also in Spain.
— Ilan Stavans
For me, to get to play an action hero in a science fiction film is a marriage of two genres that I'm a huge fan of.
— Ian Ziering
It's only fair that stable gay relationships of long standing should have the same rights and responsibilities as married couples. I know the image of gay marriage is to some people horrific and ludicrous.
To try and stand outside the marriage, I'd say we have complementary capabilities. I do the hustling and the business. I do more script reading. I handle contracts.
— Hume Cronyn
I was very influenced by the musicals and romantic comedies of the 1930s. I admired Gene Harlow and such, which probably explains why, since the end of my marriage, I've dated nothing but a succession of blondes.
I think there's something unromantic about marriage. You're closing yourself off.
But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.
Marriage is sacred and protected and has nothing to do with violating our civil rights.
I have never been given to envy - save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily.
In 1989 when I switched from Democrat to Republican, with God as my witness, not one thing changed about what I believed about one man and one woman in a marriage or about diversity of color. That's a good thing.
— J. C. Watts
I'm the person that I always was, but in terms of how I approach my living, I'm not the same person at all. At all. I've buried a child, I've ended a marriage, and the grandson that I was raising is now grown. My family has totally shifted.
I love marriage. I think it's a wonderful institution and it's the most important decision you make.
— Isla Fisher
When I think of the moment I knew that my marriage to Josiah would end, there were a few moments before I really, really knew. I probably knew, when I saw my ex-husband and his now wife - then colleague - having tea together in his office, that something was amiss.
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.
The first year of marriage is not always easy, especially within the Royal Family.
— Ingrid Seward
I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president.
— Indra Nooyi
I think marriage is beautiful, but I have mixed feelings about it.
Cervantes married in 1584, when he was thirty-seven and Catalina was nineteen. The marriage lasted thirty years, but Cervantes may have spent only about half of them with his wife.
My second marriage was to a girl I met in Manchester, kept a long-distance relationship going for two years, then we got married... disaster.
— Ian McShane
Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage.
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
I always say now that I'm in my blonde years. Because since the end of my marriage, all of my girlfriends have been blonde.
