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I've always had bizarre, negative feelings about anything traditional, like marriage and family. I never thought something like that worked. -- Gerard Way
And that is why marriage and family law has emphasized the importance of marriage as the foundation of family, addressing the needs of children in the most positive way. -- John Boehner
I'm getting my psychology degree with a focus on marriage and family therapy. -- Danielle Fishel
There's never been a civilization that has rewritten what marriage and family means and survived. -- Mike Huckabee
Gay and lesbian couples should have the right to experience the joys of marriage and family. -- Bryan Cranston
Obviously, marriage is not a synonym for morality. But stable marriages and families do encourage moral behavior. -- Gary Bauer
I oppose any attempt to grant homosexual unions the same legal privileges that civil government affords to traditional marriage and family life. -- Todd Akin
A monogamous marriage and family is what some women want - but not all of us. We are mostly doing serial monogamy anyway. -- Betty Dodson
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What the restored gospel brings to the discussion on marriage and family is so large and so relevant that it cannot be overstated: we make the subject eternal! -- L. Tom Perry
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[Speaking of marriage and family] In this entire world there is not a more perfect, more complete image of God, Unity and Community. There is no other human reality which corresponds more, humanly speaking, to that divine mystery. -- Pope John Paul II
If something is buried in the past, leave it buried. . . . Such dwelling on past lives, including past mistakes, is just not right! It is not the gospel of Jesus Christ. . . . In cases of marriage and family, . . . we can end up destroying so many others. -- Jeffrey R. Holland
Liberalism in various guises - feminism, the sexual revolution, gay activism - has been at war with marriage and family for several decades now. And when do-gooders look around at the wreckage of human lives caused by disintegrating families, they call for government to act as father, mother, brother, and sister. -- Mona Charen
My life, in some ways, has been a half-measure. I didn't commit myself all the way to my marriage and family, because I would have given up more. And I didn't go all the way with just being completely selfish. I always wonder where my career would be if I was more selfish. -- Alec Baldwin
Melchizedek Priesthood holders who are fathers in sealed families have been taught what they must do. There is nothing that has come or will come into your family as important as the sealing blessings. There is nothing more important than honoring the marriage and family covenants you have made or will make in the temples of God. -- Henry B. Eyring
How important are money management and finances in marriage and family affairs? Tremendously. The American Bar Association recently indicated that 89 percent of all divorces could be traced to quarrels and accusations over money. Another study estimated that 75 percent of all divorces result from clashes over finances. Some professional counselors indicated that four out of every five families wrestle with serious money problems... -- Jeffrey R. Holland
I have come to understand that the Lord's richest blessings are spiritual, and they often have to do with family, friends, and the gospel. He often seems to give the blessing of a special sensitivity to the influence and guidance of the Holy Spirit, especially in marriage and family matters like raising children. Such spiritual sensitivity can help us enjoy the blessings of harmony and peace in the home. -- Carl B. Pratt
No intelligent government can continue to ignore the urgent priority of giving support and practical encouragement to marriage and family stability as the first response to growing social needs. -- Vincent Nichols
My marriage and my families come certainly before my career. -- Michael Douglas
I also have a degree in marriage, family and child counseling - I'm a therapist. -- Stephen Furst
I don't know if I believe in marriage. I believe in family, love and children. -- Penelope Cruz
It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home. -- Elizabeth Edwards
To me, marriage is really important and what we build families on. That's why gay marriage is really important. -- Margaret Cho
Buildings are tools to reach people, raise disciples, reach students, train up our kids, heal marriages and families and worship God. -- Kevin Myers
Marriage is built around complementarity of the sexes, and therefore the institution of marriage is a support for stable families and societies. -- John Sentamu
I believe in the institution of marriage and it's like a tag to cement the relationship for your friends, family and public. -- Kareena Kapoor Khan
If more husbands and fathers would put as much energy into their marriages and families as they do their jobs, the world would change. -- Mark Hart
I do believe that God blessed me in life with a wonderful family, a successful career, and a loving marriage, and remain thankful for that blessing. -- Bonnie Tyler
In many ways, the crumbling of the institution of marriage is the real 'war on women.' Marriage is the civilizing influence for men and for families. -- Tim Huelskamp
I think growing up in a big family taught me a lot of problem solving and how to share and compromise, and that's been helpful in my marriage. -- Sarah Jessica Parker
The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family. -- Eminem
My dad is from Japanese descent, my mom is from Swedish descent and, through marriages and divorces, a pretty multicultural family - a lot of Spanish speakers in the family. -- Cary Fukunaga
Personally I'm an advocate for healthy marriages and families and I do a lot of speaking around the country sharing my faith and talking to women's groups, even specifically about marriage. -- Candace Cameron
There are members - very, very close and dear members - of my family - I'm talking immediate family - who simply don't speak to me anymore and haven't done so for years. My marriage fell apart. -- Maajid Nawaz
The family is the first economy. If the family breaks down, well, government gets bigger because of the consequences of family breakdown. We see in the neighborhoods where there are no marriages and there are no two-parent families. -- Rick Santorum
Arranged marriages are big business in the U.K. Second- and third-generation immigrant families, with no extended family structure, limited networks and religious restrictions on acceptable ways to meet future spouses, are turning to external matchmakers for help. -- Jemima Khan
Marriage is to family what legs are to a table. -- Betty Jane Wylie
Gay marriage will destroy the family -- Pope Francis
If we abandon marriage, we abandon the family. -- Michael Enzi
Marriage is the agreement to let a family happen. -- Betty Jane Wylie
Protecting the institution of marriage safeguards, I believe, the American family. -- John Boehner
You can't have a happy family if you don't have a happy marriage. -- Jeremy Sisto
Whether it was work, marriage, or family, I've always been a late bloomer. -- Sigourney Weaver
Marriage, the family unit, was the "original Department of Health, Education and Welfare." -- Michael Novak
Lovers forget that after marriage and kids, it's no longer a 'relationship' - It's a family. -- Siddharth Katragadda
The complete destruction of traditional marriage and the nuclear family is the 'revolutionary or utopian' goal of feminism. -- Kate Millett
If traditional marriage is not the law of the land, the institution of the family will cease to exist. -- James Dobson
In my kids school, the married family is an anomaly which I do think is sad. I do believe in marriage. -- Marcia Gay Harden
All I know is it destroyed my family, it destroyed my marriage to Sylvester and I will never get over it. -- Brigitte Nielsen
In my kids' school, the married family is an anomaly... which I do think is sad. I do believe in marriage. -- Marcia Gay Harden
The central paradox and challenge of marriage is that we have to make family out of someone we're not related to ... -- Ruth Stout
In Afghan culture, you don't date - you marry. Even talking to boys before marriage brings great shame to your family. -- Azita Ghanizada
That is [liberalism's] goal - to destroy the family [liberals] just made up this gay marriage thing gays are natural conservatives. -- Ann Coulter
There are four pillars to a happy marriage: respect one another as individuals; (give) soft answers; (practice)financial honesty; (conduct) family prayer. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
I believe in the institution of marriage and it's like a tag to cement the relationship for your friends, family and public. -- Kareena Kapoor Khan
I have close family members as well as lots of close friends who are gay. Many of them strongly support gay marriage. -- Tony Abbott
Regarding marriage, it - somehow, it didn't happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Marriage is not just about love and living together. It's much more complicated, especially when you are going to be making a family. -- Laura Schlessinger
Marriage is sacred intimacy. The husband must love, feed and care for the family. The wife must love, respect and submit to the husband. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
When you're a writer, you want to try to avoid cliches. Unfortunately, when you're writing about marriage or family, all cliches seem to apply. -- Dan Savage
Proclaim the beauty and truth of the Christian message to a society which is tangent by confusing presentations of sexuality, marriage and the family. -- Pope Francis
The first bond of society is the marriage tie; the next our children; then the whole family of our house, and all things in common. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
The turmoil that my dad went through, and then by extension, the kids went though, was profound and disastrous for the marriage, for the family. -- Bryan Cranston
Do not miss your children's childhood. Do not be away 200 nights a year as I was. Do not put strains on your marriage or family. -- Joe Scarborough
Dreams are more personal. We tend to only dream about issues that impact us directly: our careers, our marriage, our children, our family and friends. -- Charles McPhee
Righteous marriage is a commandment and an essential step in the process of creating a loving family relationship that can be perpetuated beyond the grave. -- David A. Bednar
We must refuse to submit to those institutions which are by definition sexist - marriage, the nuclear family, religions built on the myth of feminine evil. -- Andrea Dworkin
Marriage was a goal. A family, for me as a young girl, was my image of what I hoped for. It was part of the big picture. -- Demi Moore
Marriage and family are certainly beautiful parts of life, but I believe those things can truly be appreciated only when we find, love, and respect ourselves first. -- Holly Madison
If you believe, if you value and treasure and revere the institution of marriage, then you should want every family unit to be really wrapped in marriage. -- Nicolle Wallace
Marriage takes perseverance and determination. There are always opportunities to walk away from marriage but I feel very strongly that you have a responsibility once you start a family. -- Betty Churcher
I was neglected by my family because I had disappointed them - I'd run away from being forced into an arranged marriage, which was a big blow to them. -- Nelson Mandela
We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want a family so we'll have to start thinking about that. -- Prince William
What is behind homosexual marriage. It's really more about the destruction of the traditional family than about exalting homosexuality, because you need to destroy also loyalty to the family. -- Rafael Cruz

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