Big Quote by Sarah McLachlan

Life is not living in the suburbs with a white picket fence. That's not life. Somehow our American culture has made it out that…

— Tom Brady

Marriage is like a coffin and each kid is like another nail.

— Homer Simpson

I really wanted to show [in "fences"] a marriage that is working. Not perfect, but working.

— Viola Davis

There's this whole kind of fiction and image that marriage is perfect.

— Ant Anstead

Everyone gives 'Picket Fences' credit for being so willing to delve into issues that now would be no big deal. But it was then.…

— Holly Marie Combs

“You see, Marriage is like a Coffin, and each Kid is another Nail.”

— Matt Groening

Ever wonder why people are so determined to reach for white picket fences, supposed normalcy, a nuclear family? Well, try growing up without one.

— Chuck Eddy

Marriage is a strange combination of dream and reality, and we spend our lives as couples trying to negotiate that divide.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

'Fences' is under the headline of the project of my lifetime. It is the most perfect and undeniably developed narrative that I've ever worked…

— Viola Davis

“Marriages are buffeted by more important things, like money and sex and children and jobs and in-laws, in constantly changing combinations.”

— Beth Pattillo

It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home.

— Elizabeth Edwards

The kids ask about marriage. It's meaning more and more to them. So it's something we've got to look at.

— Brad Pitt