Adults Quote by Peter De Vries

Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but…

— Peter De Vries

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if…

— Diane Ackerman

Attaching the word marriage to the association of same-sex individuals mistakenly presumes that marriage is principally a matter of adult benefits and adult rights.…

— Mitt Romney

Marriage is the gold standard of all relationships. It's the currency by which everything is valued.

— Frank Delaney

As marriage produces children, so children produce care and disputes; and wrangling.

— Mary Wortley Montagu

Marriage does not exist for the benefit of the present generation but for the benefit of the next

— Roger Scruton

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

— Tennessee Williams

With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits.

— Eleanor Holmes Norton

Marriage is not absolutely for making children. But it is absolutely for making children followers of Jesus.

— John Piper

The human race could not go on without reproduction, and marriage creates the most secure environment in which to raise children.

— Gary Chapman

Marriage is about raising children. That's the purpose of the institution.

— Rush Limbaugh

Marriage is a career which brings about more benefits than many others.

— Simone de Beauvoir