Jill Scott Quotes

Lot's of marriages don't last as long as Queen have been together.

My parents were married 53 years, good and bad. Can I do that? Probably not. But I really hope I can.

My parents have a wonderful marriage, for many years. But I can't commit myself for such a long time.

I've never seen anyone deal in a literary way with what it takes to stay married for more than 50 years, and that seemed like a worthy goal.

One study found that people who smile in childhood photographs are less likely to get a divorce.

I think a lot of people are with the one they're meant to be with. I see it watching my parents because they've been together for so long and are still very much in love. I'm just sort of in awe of that.

People get married when they're 18 and spend their whole lives together. I think their greatest fear is that someone will see it as a fling because they were young and it didn't mean anything.

When one has been married over thirty years, of course it would be absurd not to admit there have been some difficulties, at some times. But the important thing is that we have weathered them.

I do tend to look back to my parents generation and think wow! what a great way to be, to live with one person for a lifetime, to bring your kids up in these really solid families.

I always felt as though, 'If nothing else, I have a successful marriage.'

I think in any relationship in this industry, there's a stress on relationships. I think that's reality, but in no way do I think that if a relationship is meant to be together and a marriage is meant to be together, that anything like a show or being in this industry can change that.

Hamish is worried about ending up like my parents, who each spend time in their two homes in Bundanoon and Sydney. But that's how their marriage has lasted.

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

Well, it seems to me that the best relationships-the ones that last-are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship.

Some marriages break up, and some do not, and in our world you can usually explain the former better than the latter.

I didn't want to tell the story of what makes two people come together, although that's a theme of great power and universality. I wanted to find out what it takes for two people to stay together for fifty years -- or more. I wanted to tell not the story of courtship, but the story of marriage.

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

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.

I think it is very natural to want to be partnered, but you never know. you read about mature love affairs in the press, and it gives you hope. You think: 'Well, it's not impossible.'

Films come and go. Families stay.

I believe in a marriage that could last and stand the test of time.

Everything goes away except your family.

I personally think that people should spend more time and money on their marriages instead of weddings.

The dog lasted. The marriage didn't. So it shows which relationship was meant to be.

I believe the wedding vows are sacred and precious, and it's been one of my goals as a writer to portray the kind of marriages I've seen modeled in my family - my parents and grandparents, who all celebrated fifty-year anniversaries and well-beyond.