“I've been sober for two-and-a-half years, My children are happy. In August, my wife and I will celebrate our fifteenth wedding anniversary. My band is back together with a sold-out tour.”
Anniversaries mark the passage of shared time — years of choosing the same person, the same commitment, day after day. These quotes celebrate that persistence with warmth, humor, and the occasional hard truth about what it takes to stay together.
“A lot of good love can happen in ten years.”
“I've been sober for two-and-a-half years, My children are happy. In August, my wife and I will celebrate our fifteenth wedding anniversary. My band is back together with a sold-out tour.”
“Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the Peace Corps as it reached its 45th anniversary on March 1, 2006.”
“Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was, you could have asked the local florist - because every day Dad gave Mom a rose, which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died - she went looking for him because that morning, there was no rose.”
“Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.”
“Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.”
“Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.”
“My mother and stepfather were married 43 years, so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had a very good role model for that. And, you know, it's just a number.”
“We are not the same persons this year as last nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.”
“You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate.”
“Each year on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth, America has the opportunity to reflect on our nation's progress towards the realization of his dream.”
“A lot of good love can happen in ten years.”
“There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.”
“On this important anniversary, we must remember that while we have come a long way in eliminating barriers, critical work remains to ensure all Americans can live up to their full potential.”
“Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom wait until they have been married longer.”
“I've been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she'll kill me.”