Romantic Relationship

Famous quotes containing the words romantic and/or relationship:

“My mind no longer has romantic abysses, but has become shallow, with many little gaps and cracks.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“Christianity as an organized religion has not always had a harmonious relationship with the family. Unlike Judaism, it kept almost no rituals that took place in private homes. The esteem that monasticism and priestly celibacy enjoyed implied a denigration of marriage and parenthood.”
—Beatrice Gottlieb, U.S. historian. The Family in the Western World from the Black Death to the Industrial Age, ch. 12, Oxford University Press (1993)