Phil Everly Quotes

I've been happily married to Chris for almost 20 years.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times.

There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.

I was never a girl who thought about getting married. Being in a relationship wasn't my priority.

I've never been seriously involved with anyone. I've certainly never been in love. I've always preferred to keep things casual.

I don't want to be Carrie Bradshaw. I don't want the wedding to be bigger than Big. I'm just grateful to know that the first time I fell in love wasn't the last time.

I don't fall in love easily. It's odd; one of the first things I think about when I go out with a woman is what it would be like to be married to her. And yet I have a tough time committing.

I don't want to marry again. I did that.

It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

I'm on a search for my future ex-wife.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

I've always been the type to fall in love fast and, with every boyfriend, I plan out my wedding in my head.

I'm a romantic; you have to be to marry four times.

There's a difference... between the kind of woman you would bang and the kind of woman you would marry.

Romantic love can be terrifying. We experience another human being as enormously important to us. So there is surrender - not a surrender to the other person so much as to our feeling for the other person. What is the obstacle? The possibility of loss.

My wife - I married my onscreen girlfriend from 'Growing Pains', Mike Seaver's girlfriend, and we've been married for 17 years - so marriage is very important to us.

The problem men seem to have, and women, too, is that they have this very structured idea that we should find a partner and settle down and be, you know, faithful. And yet clearly this is really, really hard for anybody to do!

The older you get the more realistic it is that you're significant other is your significant other. I mean, you'll always have your girlfriends or your guy friends, but the person you're married to is usually your No. 1.

I think we take it for granted that if you are with your husband after 30 years, then he is the love of your life.

The odds are definitely better on getting the right job than getting a good partner for life. Someone who will grow with you. Someone to develop memories with. Someone who was there in the beginning. Someone who will be there at the end.

I'm not cynical about marriage or romance. I enjoyed being married. And although being single was fun for a while, there was always the risk of dating someone who'd owned a lunch box with my picture on it.

If somebody says to me, 'Oh, you're gonna get married and you'll never be attracted to anybody else again,' I'm like, right, sure. It's just not practical to me on an emotional level. Just because I'm married, I'm not dead.

Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without.

There's something about marriage that is not as intensely romantic or interesting as a couple's first meeting.

My reward in life for growing up a little bit was that Mary Steenburgen came into my life, and we have been together for 19 years.