Quotes About Friendship

When I need guidance or just to kvetch or to bounce ideas off of people, I go to Gail Simone, who is very much kind of the den mother of all of us who are working comics.

For me, having a baby was never going to be timed randomly. I wanted to have mine while I was on 'Scandal.' Kerry Washington is one of my best friends, and I've gotten to watch her go through motherhood. I also have the greatest female boss in Shonda Rhimes, who is a mother of three and a huge advocate for women.

I think a mother needs to be with mothers. I don't know what they talk about.

Mothers need mothers. Let's be there for one another.

My mother made all of our clothes, my friends' mothers made all of their clothes. This was the Depression.

When someone else is injured, they are the ones who motivate you. It's not just for yourself - it's for them.

Role models can inspire. Campaigns can motivate. But if we want all girls everywhere to rise up, then we must find them, befriend them and support them.

It keeps you motivated to know that everyone has your back.

I've been lucky with my friends, most of all with Debina. If it wasn't for her, I'd have probably given up. She encouraged and inspired me. Due to her I felt motivated to do my best for my career.

It's a big deal to reveal your friend's deepest truth, your friend's deepest secret. And for all of us, when we do these big things, there's a complexity of motivation that comes behind that decision.

The Duke family, those are my brothers, and it's something I'll always take with me. Coach K, he gives me a lot of motivational things and checks in on me and my family. He knows where my heart is.

The thing is that I've known the guys from Motley Crue longer than just about everybody.

Being in Motley Crue really made me value friends and family.

I had a few friends that were with me before I was in Motley that were there after I was in Motley, and it wasn't that many.

I don't belong to a motorcycle club, but I know a lot of guys who do. I ride with some guys who do.

The Seinfeld motto: No learning, no hugging.

our contemporary ideas about manliness, reflected in action movies and westerns, generally prohibit so-called real men from displaying high emotion, with the exception of anger. John Wayne doesn't cry. By contrast, Achilles, the epitome of manliness in Homer's Iliad, weeps openly and at length over the loss of his friend Patroclus.

His enemy was time. Or perhaps it was his friend. One never knows for sure.

A gracious friend from us is gone, A voice we loved is fled, But faith and memory lead us on: He lives; he is not dead.

As long as I have the friendship of the sesasons life will never be a burden to me.

Friendship or enmity is everywhere an affair of time and circumstance

My dearest friend, if you don't mind, I'd like to join you by your side. Where we could gaze into the stars, and sit together, now and forever. For it is plain as anyone can see, we're simply meant to be.

It's a hard thing to explain to somebody who hasn't felt it, but the presence of death and danger has a way of bringing you fully awake. It makes things vivid. When you're afraid, really afraid, you see things you never saw before, you pay attention to the world. You make close friends. You become part of a tribe and you share the same blood- you give it together, you take it together.

They shared the weight of memory. They took up what others could no longer bear. Often, they carried each other, the wounded or weak.