Ira Sachs Quotes

I have a lot of admiration for people who've been in relationships a long time, married for years.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

Years on, Christine and John still have a deep love for each other, as do Stevie and I - we've been working together since I was 17.

I don't want to make any judgments, and I don't want to preach, but I'm hoping that marriage can work: that when people do fall in love, when people do find their soul mate, everyone sticks to it. It has the potential to be a very powerful thing, marriage.

I like the fact that my husband and I have been together for a long time and have a warm and colourful history together.

You can have a mate for 30 years, it's easy.

People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.

I believe if two people want to commit to each other, God bless 'em.

Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become.

When does she do all this thinking? We're together all the time but she thinks deeply about things and with feeling and she can remember the facts. We've been married 48 years.

If you love somebody, you love them. My parents had a 25-year age gap between them and my mum was the breadwinner, my dad the house husband. I'm a strong believer that a good relationship can work, whatever the situation.

It's such a lovely feeling to be in love, to marry the person you love and finally to be with that person. I feel the romance should never go out of any marriage. Even after one has had kids, etc. Love never ends, na?

Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage.

I've been married over 50 years of my life.

And in a marriage you can't TRY and be married. You're married or you're not married... as far as I'm concerned.

I think that sense of humor is important in marriage. A sense of humor gets people through marriage.

When I talk about the importance of the institution of marriage, I think of the commitment and the significance of standing in front of those closest to you and promising fidelity to your partner 'til death do you part.'

A ring means a commitment. But more than that, it means that you've talked about your shared future and have decided together on a shared vision of it.

I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.

Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.

The heart of marriage is memories; and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns, then your marriage is a gift from the gods.

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.

I do think it's very important, if you're going to spend the rest of your life with somebody, to know that you really like them. Because when the pheromones wear off, which of course they will, you have to have a strong basis.

I can't imagine my wife and I ever splitting up. I can't imagine a life without her.

My husband is my buddy; he's my lover. We share lots of things.