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Anniversary Quotes

There is no anniversary collection behind this page. It is put together from the pages on love, marriage, romance and time, then sorted by quality, so what comes up first is whatever those four pages rate highest.

Expect poems and passages from novels more than card lines. Some of the best material here only works with the sentences around it, which is why each quote links to its own page with the source and the notes. If you plan to put one in print, check the flag first: a line marked misattributed is fine to enjoy and risky to credit.

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To act, you must know pain. You must know what it means to be in love, what it means to be rejected.

Preity Zinta

If a product has an advertisement, it means you don't need it. No-one ever has to say 'go to sleep', 'breathe', 'love people'.

Russell Brand Messiah Complex (2013)

I love putting my kids to sleep. Cherishing every moment of it knowing that it won't be the same once they are all grown up.

Francis Escudero

Love's not an emotion. It's a state of being, an ability.

Vanna Bonta Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel (1995)

You are sweet, O Love, dear Love,
You are soft as the nesting dove.
Come to my heart and bring it rest
As the bird flies home to its welcome nest.

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Even today, romantic love is just not part of my life. And you know what? That's okay with me.

Temple Grandin

In my wife's view, there is too much clutter. She has declared that the moment I die, she has the local skip company on rapid dial and everything will go.

Gyles Brandreth

Love that so many of you are saying your 2 fav bands are Green Day & Paramore. Do you even realize how cool that is for us to hear!?

Hayley Williams

I love that people never know what Nicki they are going to get on a particular song. I like bringing out a different side.

Nicki Minaj

When I first appeared, people couldn't figure out whether I was gay, straight, black, white or whatever, and I loved that. I loved the fact it scares people.

Pink

My wife, I might add, is a saint.
Either that, or maybe she is insane.

Nicholas Sparks Three Weeks with My Brother (2004)

Marriage was the best business deal I ever made. After that, Jesus of Nazareth and The Muppets.

Lew Grade

It is not lawful for thee to have her to wife

John the Baptist

Love and respect your parents. It is your duty to serve them gratefully and well.

Manuel L. Quezon

If you have never known the power of God's love, then maybe it is because you have never asked to know it - I mean really asked, expecting an answer.

Frederick Buechner The Magnificent Defeat (1966)

There are lots of gun rights groups, but the one that you hear about and the one that is feared is the NRA. I'd rather be loved -- and feared.

Wayne Pacelle

"Is love this misguided need to have you beside me most of the time? Is love this safety I feel in our silences? Is it this belonging, this completeness?"

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Half of a yellow sun (2006)

Do not love the one who doesn’t love Allah. If they can leave Allah, they will leave you.

Al-Shafi‘i

No matter how happy I had been in the past I do not long for it. The present is always the moment for which I love.

Jamaica Kincaid The Autobiography of My Mother (1996)

These aren't the days to pretend you're only a wife or a sister or a mother, she says. We're more than this.

Maaza Mengiste Shadow King (2019)

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