#marriages

Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable. ↗

— John D. MacDonald

#dependent #friendships #like #marriages

I don't think there is such a definition of a perfect family, but I do think that our marriages are in crisis. Our families are in crisis. And I think the African-American family is at one of the worst stages it's been at in a very long time in this country. Fatherlessness is rampant. ↗

— Leah Ward Sears

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I don't like being a voyeur, looking into other people's marriages. ↗

— Paul Begala

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No Congress ever has seen fit to amend the Constitution to address any issue related to marriage. No Constitutional Amendment was needed to ban polygamy or bigamy, nor was a Constitutional Amendment needed to set a uniform age of majority to ban child marriages. ↗

— Judy Biggert

#age #amend #amendment #any #ban

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get. ↗

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

#care #children #flower #gardens #get

I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income. ↗

— Wilkie Collins

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They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning. ↗

— Clint Eastwood

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In my marriages, I'd lost parts of who I was because I was trying to mold myself into what I thought a man wanted me to be. ↗

— Jane Fonda

#i #into #lost #man #marriages

Most Kikuyu marriages were arranged on the basis of what is described by anthropologists as the bride price. ↗

— Louis Leakey

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I see the policy of opposing same-sex marriages or unions, whatever you call it, as bigotry or discrimination. ↗

— Patrick J. Kennedy

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