Quotes About Companions

When we read certain portions of "Leaves of Grass" we seem to see a vast phalanx of Great Companions passing for ever along the cosmic roads, stalwart Pioneers of the Universe. There are superb young men, athletic girls, splendid and savage old men—for the weak seem to have perished by the roadside.

It won't snow on us," I told my hiking companions, "because I lead a good and virtuous life." "We're dead," Dave Long said.

I armed her against the censures of the world, shewed her that books were sweet unreproaching companions to the miserable, and that if they could not bring us to enjoy life, they would at least teach us to endure it.

I wanted to learn what it was like to have a friend

The Master said, "To study, and then in a timely fashion to practice what you have learned—is this not satisfying? To have companions arrive from afar—is this not a joy? To remain unrecognized by others and yet remain free of resentment—is this not the mark of the gentleman?" (Analects 1.1)

Is there anything in the world better than words on the page? Magic signs, the voices of the dead, building blocks to make wonderful worlds better than this one, comforters, companions in loneliness. Keepers of secrets, speakers of the truth...all those glorious words.

I don't trust anybody in my life except my mother and my dogs.

I am a man who refuses to be a hypocrite and I like and must be just, fair and honest; women for me are more important than oxygen because they are our mothers, sisters, wives and daughters. Women are our companions, our beloved soul mates and the sisters of men

He is a gay man, my dear, to say no more; and such are the companions we wish when we join a party avowedly formed for pleasure.

group of tourists passed them. "We came with Amy and Woodrow Watson

In an emergency, one often learns that one's companions can be of even less help in extraordinary circumstances than they are during an average evening.

The only light was a standing lamp by his chair, near his elbow was a drink. He liked to read with the silence and the golden color of the whiskey as his companions. He liked food, people, talk, but reading was an inexhaustible pleasure. What the joys of music were to others, words on a page were to him.

I was twenty-one: all around me our dining companions were in their forties and fifties, if not their sixties and seventies. It was as if we had been propelled into a geriatric culture where our generation was deliberately snubbed as irrelevant.

You need a cat," Lula said. "A cat?" "Yeah. I read an article online about how people are getting therapy cats on account of cats are good companions. We could go to the shelter and pick one out for you." "That's a big responsibility. I don't think I'm ready for a cat." "Well, your life can't be all that bad if you don't want a cat." "A cat isn't going to fix my job.

Beauty and folly are old companions.

I've got two little dogs, a little Chihuahua-Pomeranian I've had for about eight years - his name is Oliver - and a miniature German Schnauzer I've had for about seven years. They're like little brothers.

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God gives us relatives; thank God, we can choose our friends.

I've grown tired of traveling alone, won't you ride with me?

I like to think of the figures I make as companions for a personal journey. I try to fill each one with healing energy that responds to the person who owns it, and conversely, I hope that the person who owns it will respond with a true heart connection. I feel that my work is a sign post to the half forgotten world that we all carry inside of us. When people look at my work, I want them to think Oh, now I remember. If they do that then I know that they have been successful.

It is preferable not to travel with a dead man.

If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you belong only half to yourself or even less in proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct and if you have more than one companion you will fall more deeply into the same plight.

I get a friend to travel with me... I need somebody to bring me back to who I am. It's hard to be alone.

I can't picture going to a beach, or anywhere on vacation, without a couple of books as companions.