Marriage Today Quotes

#1. As a senator, I worried every day about the size of the federal deficit. I did not spend a single minute worrying about the effect of gays on the institution of marriage. Today it seems to be the other way around.

John C. Danforth

#2. Either we fix [the marriage] today, or I will divorce you tomorrow.

Ashlee Vance

#3. I was flying home from LA and all of a sudden I looked out at the clouds and I realized, Jesus we are really flying, and it was the most wonderful and miraculous thing, and about a minute later the feelings of anxiety and panic begin.
I feel the same way about marriage, today.

Suzanne Finnamore

#4. For you see, each day I love you more. Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.

Rosemonde Gerard

#5. A hundred years ago, if you had a child out of marriage, you'd be a social disgrace. Today women feel comfortable enough economically and culturally to bring up a child without a recognized commitment from a man.

Helen Fisher

#6. It is a fact that all women contribute more to marriage than men; for the most part they have to change their place of living, their method of work, a great many women today changing their occupation entirely on marriage; and they must even change their name.

Agnes Macphail

#7. Our culture puts feelings first, but true love isn't based on feelings. That is why there are so many divorces today. When the early romantic feelings in a marriage do not remain constant ... many people believe divorce is the answer.

Billy Graham

#8. I always looked for someone who can appreciate my feelings, to understand me and above all feel very happy to have my love, it took me years to find you but today I feel happier than ever.

Auliq Ice

#9. Not long ago, someone who was dissatisfied with his or her spouse and wanted a divorce had to justify that decision. Today it's the opposite: If you're not fulfilled by your marriage, you have to justify staying in it, because of the tremendous cultural pressure to be good to one's self.

Anonymous

#10. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of the definition of a marriage as between one man and one woman.

Randy Neugebauer

#11. Congratulations on your marriage--may it be long and fun and frisky--and may you always look at one another the way you do today.

Emma Chase

#12. Even if most days can't be half as good as today, it's days like this that make it all worth it.

Crystal Woods

#13. This gets into a fundamental change in how marriage is viewed. Today we see getting married as finding a life partner. Someone we love. But this whole idea of marrying for happiness and love is relatively new.

Aziz Ansari

#14. When you consider the many pressures that couples face today, only an iron-clad determination will hold them together for a lifetime. Those who go into marriage with a mushy commitment are likely to wobble and fall apart when the hard times come. And as we all know, hard times will come.

James C. Dobson

#15. Today the average age of first marriage is about twenty-seven for women and twenty-nine for men, and it's around thirty for both men and women in big cities like New York and Philadelphia.

Aziz Ansari

#16. Isn't it odd that in most societies in the world today, women generally cannot propose marriage? Marriage is such a major step in your life, and yet you cannot take charge of it; it depends on a man asking you.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#17. People today expect too much from marriage. Getting married is really like taking on a big new job.

Rosamunde Pilcher

#18. Today, a couple with 'just married' tags collided head-on with a hearse carrying two coffins in the back, both of a married couple that had previously
died in a car accident.

Anthony Liccione

#19. pg. 245 ...there probably isn't a marriage or a relationship or a friendship anywhere today that wasn't jump-started by trivia.

Ken Jennings

#20. But the truth is, real love denies self to give those we love God's best. So I said no to Collin and yes to God, and I truly believe that's why our marriage is so wonderful today. Because the Bible is clear - God honors those who honor him.

Julie Lessman

#21. In retrospect, I'm grateful for the break-up of my marriage because it forced me to deal with all the buried issues I probably wouldn't have otherwise faced. I'm a better, kinder, happier person today because of the spiritual and emotional growth I've experienced.

Alana Stewart

#22. 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

#23. When I said yes,
it implies till death,
and forever thence.

When I said love,
it connotes trust,
allied in situations tough.

And today,
when I hold your hand,
I am prepared to stand,
any trouble,
any avalanche.

Jasleen Kaur Gumber

#24. I am much more open to plural marriage than I was before, and I now support it in certain situations. I do believe it is right for some people. But our example in America today is gross abuse - I can't support it in fundamentalist compounds.

Ginnifer Goodwin

#25. The questions today are different, and if people don't get answers from pastors and parents, they will find them in dark, depraved places.

Mark Driscoll

#26. In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don't baptize the children of single mothers because they weren't conceived in the sanctity of marriage. These are today's hypocrites. Those who clericalize the church. Those who separate the people of God from salvation.

Pope Francis

#27. You have to make a switch. Decide today to start appreciating your spouse's strengths and learn to downplay their weaknesses. If you do, your marriage will be filled with more peace, unity and love, and you'll see God bless your marriage in greater ways.

Joel Osteen

#28. Today's marriages become toxic, with resentments, after only a few years. It's one thing to say, 'I forgive,' but most lack the enterprise to do the necessary work that follows. It was the day after that proved who had the wisdom of God and who didn't.
pg 46

Michael Ben Zehabe

#29. Gay marriage won't be more of an issue 25 years from now than interracial marriage is today.

Jared Polis

#30. A marriage based not on self-denial but on self-fulfillment will require a low- or no-maintenance partner who meets your needs while making almost no claims on you. Simply put - today people are asking far too much in the marriage partner.

Timothy J. Keller

#31. Marriage - as well as erotic friendships and sexual liaisons -between members of contrasting races and religions will take place with greater frequency, and will be more accepted than it is today.

Herbert Otto Gille

#32. The 'good-enough marriage' is definitely not good enough for today's singles. We're not content to marry someone who happens to live down the street and gets along okay with our parents.

Aziz Ansari

#33. After years of struggle, the U.S. Supreme Court today has made same-sex marriage a reality in California ... I have directed the California Department of Public Health to advise the state's counties that they must begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in California

Jerry Brown

#34. Didn't she know?
"Yes" to dinner today.
"Yes" to marriage tomorrow.
Dammit, he had a schedule to keep.
A schedule that involved getting her sweet ass into bed as fast as humanly possible.

Shelly Laurenston

#35. Our prayers at this time are prompted by the fact that the Governor of Illinois today is signing into Illinois law the redefinition of civil marriage, introducing not only an unprecedented novelty into our state law, but also institutionalizing an objectively sinful reality.

Thomas J. Paprocki

#36. And so I found myself in a kind of love lock: pining for the wrong person, grieving beside a woman whose body I can't touch, being given a second chance I can't find the clarity to take.

Courtney Maum

#37. If you look at attitudes today and where they are headed, it's clear to me that supporting equal rights, including the rights to civil marriage, is a net positive for winning elections, as well as the right thing to do.

Ken Mehlman

#38. We are gathered here tonight to join these two lives, these two hearts, these two souls, in marriage. If there is anyone present here today who objects to this union, please take it up with the two armed federal agents who are getting hitched." Zane

Abigail Roux

#39. I know of few families today that aren't touched to some extent by the heartache of divorce, including our own.

Billy Graham

#40. Honey, what happened to "ladies first"? Husband replies, "That's the reason why the worlds a mess today, because a lady went first!"

David Letterman

#41. I told Mama and Savannah about Ruben's proposal. That got us to talking about marriage and we laughed and cried some, and missed Papa, and it felt good to belong to each other. I don't feel as lonely today as I have in months. At least I know there are other women around me.

Nancy E. Turner

#42. I have never been prouder to be a lifelong New Yorker than I am today with the passage of marriage equality.

Cyndi Lauper

#43. Today, the need to avoid confusing marriage with other types of unions based on weak love is especially urgent. It is only the rock of total, irrevocable love between a man and a woman that can serve as the foundation on which to build a society that will become a home for all mankind.

Pope Benedict XVI

#44. Culture, what you believe, what you value, how you live matters. Now, as fundamental as these principles are, they may become topics of democratic debates from time to time, so it is today with the enduring institution of marriage. Marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman.

Mitt Romney

#45. If there was more courting in marriage, there'd be fewer marriages in court. Date your mate. Today.

Rick Warren

#46. I mean, for all of his faults and the troubles in his marriage, Bill Clinton is still married to a girl he met in the library 25 years ago at school. Can we say that about many of our other leaders today in America, including on the right wing?

Paul Begala

#47. You're never healing the level you're on. You're always healing the level you came from. For example, you know things today that you didn't know in your first marriage.

Iyanla Vanzant

#48. Thousands of young couples go through with a loveless marriage because no one ever told them what genuine love is. If people today knew that kind of love, the divorce rate would be sharply reduced.

Billy Graham

#49. I'm afraid many young people today have very romantic ideas about marriage - ideas that do not necessarily reflect the truth ... Romantic feelings alone are not enough when the problems and strains come - as they inevitably do.

Billy Graham

#50. The health of your marriage tomorrow will be determined by the decisions you make today.

Andy Stanley

#51. I genuinely believe that we will look back on today as a landmark for equality in Britain ... No matter who you are and who you love, we are all equal. Marriage is about love and commitment, and it should no longer be denied to people just because they are gay.

Nick Clegg

#52. What's interesting is that the way we go about finding our marriage partners today is quite different from the way it used to be in this culture.

Sheena Iyengar

#53. 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

#54. Everyone said they married their soul mate. Not only could I say that, but today, I was truly marrying my best friend"

- Bethany Marie Casse

Mia Kayla

#55. In our society, marriage is not simply a governmental institution; it is a religious institution as well, today's decision might change the former, but it cannot change the latter.

Clarence Thomas

#56. Spiritually, we have marginalized the Bible. We've trivialized marriage, and we've neutralized the church. America today is in great turmoil. It feels like the soul of our nation has been taken from us.

David Jeremiah

#57. Many people today have discarded the Bible's clear teaching on sexual relations outside of marriage, simply because they are absorbed only in their own pleasures and desires.

Billy Graham

#58. Women today have more of an overview of their lives and how marriage is or is not a part of it.

Helen Reddy

#59. Today is the day after my wedding. And nothing is the way I expected it to be.

Rachel Abbott

#60. Contrast this with the use by modern Islamic scholars of Muhammad's decision to marry a six-year-old girl, consummating their marriage when she turned nine, to justify child marriage in Iraq and Yemen today.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#61. That's what's wrong with people today, expecting things like marriage to be interesting.

Terry Pratchett

#62. If you'd rather watch your kids grow up than see the face of your Savior today, you don't grasp the beauty of God. If you worry about what would happen to your children if you were gone, you don't understand the providence of God.

Francis Chan

#63. Miracles still happen today ... A healed marriage. A healthy family. A job you love. Every one of us has been a witness to a whole host of miracles ... let Him have a chance to work a miracle in your life once again.

Karen Kingsbury

#64. Today Donald Trump reaffirmed his stance against gay marriage. Trump said marriage is between a rich guy and his much younger third wife.

Conan O'Brien

#65. Our tendency today is to assume that we can eliminate the authority of husband over wife and yet retain the authority of husband-wife over the children. The Bible is more realistic about marriage than modern man, for the truth is that in disobeying the one hierarchy we destroy the other.

Charles F. Stanley