Marc Anthony Quotes

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

Time was too much a part of love, for even in fairytales the proof of love was not its first moment, but its latest ones - that people lived happily ever after. Love at first sight was nothing but infatuation until proved by time.

The alliance of love between a man and a woman, an alliance for life, cannot be improvised, and is not made in a day.

An anniversary says, "Think of the dreams you have weathered together. They are intimate accomplishments."

Love affairs are for emotional sprinters; the pleasures of love are for the emotional marathoners.

What is lovely never dies, But passes into other loveliness.

I know that people don't listen to music much in the way when they'll put on a CD, sit down, have a drink or go on a car journey. People pick and choose and just listen to tracks. But when I make a record, I try to think about it as a 50 minute musical journey, so the mood is very important, as is the sequence of the songs.

I think that enduring, committed love between a married couple, along with raising children, is the most noble act anyone can aspire to. It is not written about very much.

Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.

People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier.

I want a permanent relationship, and I might feel inclined to reject anything which of its nature could not be permanent.

I dare you to be married for 44 years and exceed anyone's expectations.

One of my favorite things in the world is to be seeing two people that are really old, still holding hands, still kissing.

I am a very basic person. I still believe marriage happens only once, and you have to sustain it.

When you hear about people in the '50s getting married at 20, you're like, 'What were they thinking?' My grandparents were together for over 50 years.

There are no Hallmark cards that define the next chapter, or the value of a history together.

So, when I was eight or nine my mom's friend gave her a big purple bag full of cassettes and I found Seals and Crofts' 'Summer Breeze'... When I found it I stopped going through the bag because I was like, well, I'm not going to find anything better than this. I just thought it was the most beautiful thing I'd ever heard.

For me, I do everything all the way. When I love my wife, I love her all the way. This isn't a sales pitch; this isn't a tagline. You'll see us in our 80s, and we'll be sitting together on a rocking chair. That's how it is. That's how it ends for us.

Since high school, I was in this band. And you know, it's one thing when you're in a band in high school, but then to have it last for so long - that's who I am and what I did forever.

That we arrived at fifty years together is due as much to luck as to love, and a talent for knowing, when we stumble, where to fall, and how to get up again.

Congratulations to Bill and Hillary Clinton: this weekend, 33rd wedding anniversary. How about that? And you thought the Iraqi war was a never-ending conflict.

I think there are beautiful moments. These days everybody expects that fairy tale , that you're going to be together forever with somebody and I don't really subscribe to that. I'd love that to happen if that happened, but 10 years is enough. 10 years is a good thing with somebody, I think. It's a nice thing. A lot of good love can happen in 10 years.

I feel the romance should never go out of any marriage. Even after one has had kids etc. Love never ends, na?

To have twenty lovers in one year is easy. To have one lover for twenty years is difficult.

love wasn't possible in just a couple of days. Love could be set in motion quickly, but true love needed time to grow into something strong and enduring. Love was, above all, about commitment and dedication and a belief that spending years with a certain person would create something greater than the sum of what the two can accomplish separately.