Century Quote by Dana Gould

Marriage is the clue to human life, but there is no marriage apart from the wheeling sun and the nodding earth, from the strayingof…

— D. H. Lawrence

Marriage probably originated as a straightforward food-for-sex deal among foraging primates. Compatibility was not a big issue, nor, of course, was there any tension…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

I always remembered that when I saw people get married they got on a rocketship and went to Planet Happiness, Population: Them.

— Marc Webb

The sky grew darker and the moon rose higher as the evening wore on. and without either or them being conscious of it, they…

— Nicholas Sparks

Marriage emerged some forty-five hundred years ago and evolved into a widespread and accepted institution that bonded families, maintained order, and created wealth. Unlike…

— Robi Ludwig

I'm an enormous product of my century, I'm a product of my upbringing. I was not aware of the fact that I was entering…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Marriage made people old and familiar, while still young.

— Ray Bradbury

God has set the type of marriage everywhere throughout the creation. Every creature seeks its perfection in another. The very heavens and earth picture…

— Martin Luther King Jr

A couple who go on living together merely because that was how they began, without any other reason: was that what we were turning…

— Simone de Beauvoir

Marriages had different meanings back then than they do now, they were used to cement agreements between families, business deals and things like that.…

— Jared Harris

From my parent's generation the idea was not that marriage was about some kind of idealized, romantic love. It was a partnership. It's about…

— Aasif Mandvi

Synchronized with the rising moon Even with the evening star They were true love written in stone They were never alone, they were never…

— James Taylor