Famous Quotes & Sayings

Our parents got divorced when I was 8 or 9.

Maggie Gallagher

People in the United States, on average, marry in their mid to late 20s, and half of all divorces take place in the first seven years of marriage.

Bianca Jagger

During the first 10 years of my life, while my parents were married, I enjoyed a privileged upbringing. After their divorce, my life was difficult.

C. S. Lewis

Every poet and musician and artist, but for grace, is drawn away from love of the things he tells to love of the telling...

C. S. Lewis

No, I don’t wish I knew Heaven was like the picture in my Great Divorce, because, if we knew that, we should know it was no better. The good things even of this world are far too good ever to be reached by imagination. Even the common orange, you know: no one could have imagined it before he tasted it. How much less Heaven.

Cecelia Ahern

When something tragic has happened, you'll find that you, the tragicee, become the person that has to make everything comfortable for everyone else.... As a tragicee and future divorcee, you'll also find that people will question you on the biggest decisions you've ever made in your life as though you hadn't thought about them at all before – as though, through their twenty questions and dubious faces, they're going to shine light on something that you missed the hundredth time around during your darkest hours.

Carrie Brownstein

I've realized that I have a lot of different loves, and I want to pursue writing, but I can never divorce myself from music.

Ashton Kutcher

I never thought in my life, I never really thought I would get married. I watched my parents go through a divorce, and I thought, like, this is just not something people are supposed to do.

Tina Knowles

Jay doesn't want to manage her. All the rumors about how I'm getting a divorce and I'm going to manage her or Jay is going to manage her ... it's just crazy.

Bertrand Russell

The triumph of science has been mainly due to its practical utility, and there has been an attempt to divorce this aspect from that of theory, thus making science more and more a technique, and less and less a doctrine as to the nature of the world. The penetration of this point of view to philosophers is very recent.

I think it's true. There were very few divorces in the town I grew up in. They worked hard. They didn't run up credit. They were good, honest people ? very salt of the earth.

Jeff Kinney

I can't divorce myself from my childhood. I try to write as much fiction as I possibly can, but there are so many things that are touchstones of my childhood like being on the swim team and playing soccer and the particularities of sports season and environments that make their way into my books.

Getting over divorce is a process made up of many different aspects.

Johnny Depp

We're in the middle of a divorce! D-I-V-O-R-C-E! DEE-VORCE!!!

Channing Tatum

I think that the divorce rate's over 50% for a reason. I don't think people are taking enough time now to really see if they can make it work and live together.

Alana Stewart

I used to think that divorce meant failure, but now I see it more as a step along the path of self-realization and growth.

Charles Spurgeon

Sin and Hell are married unless repentance proclaims the divorce.

Charles Spurgeon

There must be a divorce between you and sin, or there can be no marriage between you and Christ.

Aziz Ansari

Yeah, I've been a little down. Totally natural. I'm getting a divorce, but now I'm ready to pull myself up by some G-strings.

Bertrand Russell

Cruelty is, in theory, a perfectly adequate ground for divorce, but it may be interpreted so as to become absurd.

Ben Folds

I divorce myself from listeners who aren't tolerant of humor. I did notice universally that, especially when it comes to weight, people look in the mirror and get the angle just right, tell themselves it's all right, and then they go out.

Mariah Carey

Since her divorce: I haven't had a home since I left there, but hey, I'm glad.

Arthur Conan Doyle

It is a pity he did not write in pencil. As you have no doubt frequently observed, the impression usually goes through -- a fact which has dissolved many a happy marriage.

She was a divorced single mother of three at 22. She worked numerous jobs to support us.

Denis Diderot

The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.

Debra Messing

You know, unfortunately divorce it happens in Kansas as much as it does in Hollywood. And, you know, women having to start over at 40, you know, for the first time in their life having to find a career and being a single parent and having to date. You know, all of those things happen everywhere in the world. It's not just Los Angeles. So I would defend the fact that there are, you know, there are other reasons to watch than just to get a laugh.

Elbert Hubbard

There are three sides to every question-where a divorce is involved.

Miguel

Man, I grew up like everybody else. Middle-low income family. My parents got divorced like most of the rest of the country.

Tina Turner

I never put a lot of praise on myself because of my relationship with Ike. I was just happy when I started to like myself - when I divorced and took control of my life.

Gene Ween

A lot of those songs are actually about Sarah, who I was recently divorced from about five or six months ago. I'd been seeing her off and on since I was about nineteen, so a lot of those songs are about her.

Samuel Butler

Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.

Jennifer Aniston

I've seen people go through divorces and stuff, crossroads that don't end well. Often.

If everyone got a divorce and looked for a second wife, the Coptic family would lose its moral compass.