Relationship Quotes

My experiences in life are getting bigger and better. The more stuff I do, the more stuff I talk about - having kids, traveling, going through relationship problems, dealing with things in my own family. All that stuff builds character.

~ Kevin Hart

It would be nice if I did have a good relationship with my family, and yes, part of me longs to have a mum and dad who love and accept me for who I am. But if they never do, it's OK.

~ Heather Graham

There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.

~ William F. Buckley

I was never the girl in high school who had a boyfriend for years. My longest relationship has been 18 months. I've thought maybe I'm really superficial and unable to have a relationship. What I've found is that people are attracted by my independence, and then they try to squelch it.

~ Pam Dawber

The best relationship is one that does not foster too much independence nor too much dependence, but exists in the healthy interdependence zone.

~ Karen Salmansohn

Independence is fun, especially when there's a beloved waiting in the wings, and freedom makes you a more interesting person. Having separate lives brings fresh air into a relationship.

~ Deborah Moggach

I'm always battling how to be in a relationship while simultaneously maintaining my independence and my career.

~ Jessica Williams

The Congress has had an uneasy relationship with banks and bankers since Alexander Hamilton. It took the United States until 1913 to set up a central bank. The Federal Reserve earned its hard-won independence over years of effort.

~ Robert Zoellick

People should accept being single, because those are the moments you can really focus on yourself, and learning who you are. Then when you get in a relationship, you will be stronger and have a little bit more self-awareness, self-love, and the other ingredients for a healthy relationship.

~ Lauren London

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

~ Norman Vincent Peale

Every relationship you have, you're learning and growing and taking something from that.

~ Blake Lively

I know I'm likeable, but living with me is different. Yes, I can be charming. That desire to please people and learning what to do to charm their socks off is something many of us do. But you get into a relationship, and the party's over at some point. They see the real you.

~ John Grant

At the very core of my relationship to learning is the idea that we should be as organic as possible. We need to cultivate a deeply refined introspective sense, and build our relationship to learning around our nuance of character.

~ Joshua Waitzkin

We have to bring children into a new relationship to food that connects them to culture and agriculture.

~ Alice Waters

I feel it is an obligation to help people understand the relation of food to agriculture and the relationship of food to culture.

~ Alice Waters

Fixing obesity is going to require a change in our modern relationship with food. I'm hopeful that we begin to see a turnaround in this childhood obesity epidemic.

~ S. Jay Olshansky

Species co-evolve with the other species they eat, and very often, a relationship of interdependence develops: I'll feed you if you spread around my genes. A gradual process of mutual adaptation transforms something like an apple or a squash into a nutritious and tasty food for a hungry animal.

~ Michael Pollan

Your relationship to food is but a reflection of your relationship to yourself, as is everything in your life.

~ Marianne Williamson

Religion is not man's relationship to God, it is man's relationship to man.

~ Elie Wiesel

Abraham is such a fascinating figure. Three world religions - Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - all claim him as a patriarch. He was raised in a religious home. And yet he rejected religion in order to pursue a personal relationship with God.

~ Anne Graham Lotz

To me, religion is an agreement between a group of people about what God is. Spirituality is a one-on-one relationship.

~ Steve Earle

It is no wonder that advocates of Obamacare blindly push forward with their agenda to force religious Americans to violate their own precepts: in the war between the state and the individual, religion is on the side of the individual and his or her relationship with God. That is why symbolic prayer matters. It is symbolic.

~ Ben Shapiro

Some would rather pull a handcart across the prairie than bring up the subject of faith and religion to their friends and co-workers. They worry about how they might be perceived or how it might harm their relationship. It doesn't need to be that way because we have a glad message to share, and we have a message of joy.

~ Dieter F. Uchtdorf

I grew up very religious, and I don't have a great relationship with religion.

~ Brad Pitt

I have a funny relationship with religion. I'm a big believer in ritualistic behavior as long as it doesn't hurt anybody. But I'm not a big fan of rules. And yet, we cannot live in a world without order.

~ Madonna Ciccone

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

~ Maya Angelou

Growing up, I had a very normal relationship with my brother and sister. But, over time, they became my best friends, and now I hang out with them all the time. I'm very close with them.

~ Logan Lerman

Everyone can have their heart broken. Even if you know the relationship isn't working, it's still sad. Even in a bad relationship, they're part of your life for a long time, and saying goodbye to that can be difficult.

~ James Marsden

The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby.

~ Natalie Wood

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.

~ Washington Irving

Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.

~ Harold S. Geneen

To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.

~ Angela Davis

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

~ Oscar Wilde

Women still remember the first kiss after men have forgotten the last.

~ Rémy De Gourmont

I was in California when this journalist made a blanket statement about the fact that she did not think that black men and women had the kind of love relationship that Rebecca and Nathan had in Sounder.

~ Cicely Tyson

You have nothing if you're texting a guy in a relationship. We can text six women a minute. We can text it and push 'reply all.' I mean, since we're lying, we might as well lie to everybody.

~ Steve Harvey

It's difficult for me to meet women because my crowd is much older. I know that for some of the young women I do meet, a relationship with me can be envisioned as a benefit to their career.

~ Michael Douglas

Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.

~ André Maurois

It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations.

~ Maurice Chevalier

There is a physical relationship with a woman that you don't have with anybody else, but that's not about love. Love is a spiritual thing.

~ Ziggy Marley