Love and Commitment Quotes

Marriage isn't about a collection of scenes over ten years of two people telling each other that they love each other. It's about commitment.

I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.

Being married to a wonderful, motivating partner has brought happiness and a greater sense of purpose to my life.

Love, like fire, goes out without fuel.

I don't want to get married for the sake of getting married. My hope is that I have a partner with whom I can continue to take on the world.

I believe in equality for everyone. I believe everyone should have the right to love and commit to whomever they want. [...] All I know is that in God's eyes we are all the same. I just wish we could see through the eyes of God more often.

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.

If you want to get married to a man, then get married to a man. If two women want to get married, they should get married. It's not hurting me.

More precious than life is love, for there can be no life without love.

Those whom we first love we seldom marry

It's my belief that, like every other American, gay and lesbian couples should be able to make a lifetime commitment to the person they love and protect their families.

Having made all the decisions, I think a wedding day is a day when you want to forget what you are wearing and be in the moment.

Every gay reader understands the secret self that is full and wonderful and has longing and tenderness and a desire for connection to other people. I think that arguments against gay marriage are just ridiculous! Who cares? People want to get married for the same reason I wanted to get married. They want to do it in front of their friends and family

When you have a father and a mother who work all their lives so you can have an education and build your body - it's a blessing.

My baby love and I are ENGAGED!!!

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

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man, then complain he's not the man she married.

Ever since I was a little kid, I wanted to get married. I think because of the way I was brought up and seeing my parents in love.

I married a wonderful doctor, and I was very happy - period.

You marry out of free will. If I marry, it will be from a personal choice, not some social compulsion or norm.

Well, I think we ought to definitely look at it and debate it. I think there are a lot of people who have trouble coming to terms with that because they see marriage as traditionally between a man and a woman. But I also know that, you know, when couples are committed to each other and love each other, that they ought to have I think the same sort of rights that everyone has.

Like the protagonist of her 2006 novel, 'Love and Other Impossible Pursuits,' Ayelet Waldman is a Jewish redhead who attended Harvard Law School and is madly in love with her husband. But the obvious similarities end there.

In March 1950, in New York City, I was married to Marietta Soffer. We have three children: Vilhelm, Tomas, and Margrethe.

I've found a letter that was written to me from a girl who was getting married. And she wanted to know the secret of a happy marriage. I said - and I wrote back and said something to the effect that I couldn't - I had no magic formula. And I never sat down and thought about it, but everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me.