Famous Quotes & Sayings

Debbie Ford

Divorce becomes a holy moment when you choose to use it as a catalyst for having an extraordinary life.

Drew Fuller

Family, to me, is most important, and I can't wait to have one of my own, but I am not going to rush into it. I don't want to get a divorce. I want to take my time, do it once and get it right.

Donald Barthelme

Who among us is not thinking about divorce, except for a few tiny-minded stick-in-the-muds who don't count?

Don Johnson

People in the business will stay with you through drugs and alcohol and divorces and insanity and everything else, but you have a failure, pal, and they don't want to know nothing about you!

Anatole Broyard

The first divorce in the world may have been a tragedy, but the hundred-millionth is not necessarily one.

Dwayne Johnson

You don't sign up for a divorce when you get married. It's very painful. But it's taught me a great deal about myself.

Dolly Parton

I've never had a divorce, but I've seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can't write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I'm able to kind of express it, or their joy.

Harvey Korman

I mean, we had on our show, we had marriages, divorces and other stuff going on. And that was just me.

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.

Damien Chazelle

I think, especially living in L.A., it's very easy to get wrapped up in weekend announcements and the trades and the whole social life of the city, and to get divorced from what actually matters.

I saw her that September - we'd been divorced earlier that year - and I think she said she had gotten engaged and was moving to Fredericksburg. That's where the trail ends.

John Collins

Pensions are not protected from equitable settlements in a divorce.

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.

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.

Bjork

Compared to America or Europe, God isn't a big part of our lives here. I don't know anyone here who goes to church when he's had a rough divorce or is going through depression. We go out into nature instead.

Betty Friedan

This idea that the employment of women, the movement of women outside the home into the work world, and their demand for equality is somehow responsible for increasing juvenile delinquency or the increase in divorce rate, is just so much bullshit.

Bob Geldof

Divorce is a by-product of the fact that maybe the nuclear unit is gone.

Peace, of course, is different from divorce; indeed, in essential respects, divorce is the opposite of peace.

Andie MacDowell

Divorce is horrible. I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy. I don't think it's anything that's ever completely resolved.

We have sent an emissary on the issue of working out an amicable divorce and the other side is willing to discuss.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

Conrad Hilton was very generous to me in the divorce settlement. He gave me 5, 000 Gideon Bibles.

Divorce should be the last possible option, rather than something we should be smoothing the passage to.

Divorce is really just about money. People are driven by fear and control.

There's no good that comes from pornography. I mean it separates families. We know people personally that are in the process of possibly getting a divorce because of pornography.

Grant Show

I like to joke that I already married a 26-year-old and divorced a 29-year-old, so I wasn't going to do that again when I got remarried.

John Garfield

There are many films in which minority groups are caricatured to the point where truth is all together lost. There are many more films, good in general, but untrue in their presentation of the Negro's life as totally divorced from the Caucasian's or the Caucasian's from the Negro.

Divorce is a declaration of independence with only two signers.

Dave Grohl

I don't want to say that most rock bands live these formulaic biography existences - but they kinda do. There's always a divorce. There's always an OD. There's always a bad business manager.

David Whyte

You'll always love the person, if you're sensible. But you get a lot of people, especially in divorces and separations, doing a lot of damage to themselves, because they can't figure out that they actually still love this person, but not in their original way.

Cokie Roberts

The truth is, the notion that gay marriage is harmful to marriage, is sort of mind-boggling, because these are people trying to get married. But it seems to me, if you want to defend marriage against something, defend it against divorce.

Claire Trevor

What a holler would ensue if people had to pay the minister as much to marry them as they have to pay a lawyer to get them a divorce.

David Byrne

Obviously, you go through a lot of emotional turmoil in a divorce.