We all have a childhood dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is that marriage requires a lot of compromise. – Raquel Welch
A lot of people seem to want to make the institution of marriage substitute for a real relationship. – Susan Faludi
After 14 years, it better be a real marriage, you know? We do have a great time together. We are really lucky. – Kyra Sedgwick
There are going to be peaks and valleys in everything – in your marriage, in your job, in your life. So just enjoy the peaks and ride out the valleys. Just try not to do anything too rash. – Ricky Schroder
Good production is like a beautiful marriage. It makes a happy home. – Timbaland
Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of the definition of a marriage as between one man and one woman. – Randy Neugebauer
Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished. – Randy Neugebauer
Forty-five States, as the gentleman just said, have determined by people that were elected by the people of that State that marriage is the definition of one man and one woman. – Randy Neugebauer
Gay marriage has jumped out of the closet on to the front page. Everyone from the president of the U.S. to retired four-star general Colin Powell is embracing the issue, now supported by most Americans. Still, a few people, like former First Lady Laura Bush appear to be conflicted. – Kitty Kelley
I was one of 14 senators to vote against the Defense of Marriage Act. I thought it was a harsh and unnecessary thing to do to people across this country who care enough about each other to want to be married. – Russ Feingold
At my core, what I think we need to do is to get the basics right again. We need to rebuild our family structure, stay away from redefining marriage, and stand by marriage as a union between a man and a woman. – Sam Brownback
I believe in the sanctity of marriage. – Sam Brownback
When I first started talking about gay marriage, most people in the gay community looked at me as if I was insane or possibly a fascist reactionary. – Andrew Sullivan
So I really did stop and change what I saw I was about, and really try to put that principle into play as the center of everything – my friendships, my marriage, my career, my family, my way of being in the world. And that changed everything for me. – Kathy Mattea
I look back to when I got divorced in the late 1970s. When that happened, I was so broken up. After that, I decided to seek God for my life and my next marriage. – Ricky Skaggs
My parents were both from Scotland, but had been resident in Lower Canada some time before their marriage, which took place in Montreal and in that city I spent most of my life. – Maria Monk
I have a very intense marriage. – James Ellroy
Let me first state that I believe that marriage is a sacred union between one man and one woman. – Judy Biggert
Second, marriage is an issue that our Founding Fathers wisely left to the states. – Judy Biggert
In a broken marriage, it can be challenging and tough to get that work/life balance. I love performing but I also love being a mum, and I hate having to choose between them. – Toni Braxton
