America Quote by Lafcadio Hearn

Marriage is perhaps the most vital of all the decisions and has the most far reaching effects...

— Spencer W. Kimball

There is no doubt that, as a society, we have become blase about the importance of marriage as a stabilising influence and less inclined…

— Keith O'Brien

“Never before in history had societies thought that such a set of high expectations about marriage was either realistic or desirable. Although many Europeans…

— Stephanie Coontz

Here in America, marriage still has a mystical, intangible power: It is a passport to adulthood and respectability and to a certain extent citizenship.…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Marriage is perhaps the most vital of all the decisions and has the most far-reaching effects...It affects not only the two people involved, but…

— Spencer W. Kimball

Marriage is the basic building block of civilization. We are redefining it at our own peril.

— Hank Hanegraaff

In 5,000 years of recorded human history... neither in the east or in the west... has any society ever defined marriage as anything other…

— Michele Bachmann

Marriage is a tyranny, a mortification of man's natural instincts. Man needs a multiplicity of relationships.

— Federico Fellini

Not only, in strict truth, was marriage instituted for the propagation of the human race, but also that the lives of husbands and wives…

— Pope Leo XIII

Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let's face it.

— Tennessee Williams

Marriage still means a lot more in the country I come from than it does here. I don't think there's anything to be gained…

— George Michael

Marriage is hardly a thing one can do now and then, except in America.

— Oscar Wilde