Quotes of: Traditional-marriage Keyword

At the same time, however, the necessity for economic change in our countries has led us to conceive laws and accept traditions often at the expense of the individual person. Just when many are becoming conscious of the fundamental heritage of the Ju...

Eruption to Hope

Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only a blur remained, and different memories would remember the past in different ways. A parent or a teacher has only his ...

Education of a Wandering Man

There's a strange uniformity in the vocabulary European soccer fans use to hate black people. The same primate insults get hurled. Although they've gotten better over time, the English and Italians developed the tradition of making ape noises when bl...

How Soccer Explains the World

[...] a familiar art historical narrative [...] celebrates the triumph of the expressive individual over the collective, of innovation over tradition, and autonomy over interdependence. [...] In fact, a common trope within the modernist tradition of ...

The One and the Many: Contemporary Collaborative Art in a Global Context

The resource of generational history is accorded little attention our society, which seems ever more obsessed with making “new” and “better” synonymous. From my family I became aware of the importance of passing along wisdom from one generati...

The Seventeen Traditions

Burst pipes were an English tradition, like so many others. Like, for instance, English men. Charm the knickers off you with their mellow vowels and frivolous verbiage, and then, once they'd got them off, panic and run. Or else stay and whinge. The E...

Margaret Atwood

The lie [of compulsory female heterosexuality] is many-layered. In Western tradition, one layer—the romantic—asserts that women are inevitably, even if rashly and tragically, drawn to men; that even when that attraction is suicidal (e. g, Tristan...

Adrienne Rich

I built my marriage brick by brick. And I destroyed it blanket by blanket. 

Brick

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.

Doug Larson

Being laughed at is excellent preparation for marriage.

The Ash Girl

The snag about marriage is, it isn´t worth the divorce.

Split: A Memoir of Divorce

Marriage is a legal contract -- it's not a sacred thing.

Throne of Glass

I’m a combat specialist and marriage counselor.

This Book Has No Title

John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage.

The Yellow Wall-Paper

Marriage can be expensive, and if I lose millions then it'll be the best millions I've spent.

Seth Rogen

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

Paul Begala

Marriage is not difficult...It's dealing with the other person that makes it difficult....

kjforce

For marriage is like life in this—that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Elizabeth Edwards

Our marriage is between us. If we decide to continue being together or not, it's our business.

Gwyneth Paltrow

Men act out like they're horrified by marriage, but when they find the woman of their dreams, they love it.

Rachel Hunter