Quotes About Friendship

It would be so great to have someone my own age to talk to, even if it was just about books.

So what if I cannot be a model, if I am no longer considered beautiful, if Malvolia is trying to catch me. I am climbing a tree! And I am doing so with Jack.

And Caitlin smiled. I Wanted to put her smile in my pocket to look at over and over

We are the Girls of July; Sisters of summer weather. Summer will live in our hearts When we're no longer together. Summer is always too short. Winter days are long. We will return to July When we sing this song. We'll always be together. We'll be friends forever.

You fish, swim, eat, laze around, and everyone's so friendly. It's such simple stuff, but... If i could stop the world and restart life, put the clock back, i think I'd restart it like this. For everyone.

You learn about me, and I learn nothing about you. That's not a foundation on which friendships are based.

The women would not be looking at him like this if he were carrying lilies, reflects Jean-Paul. Flowers have there own silent vocabulary. There are blooms for love, for friendship, for sorrow, and for joy. He inspect the roses he is carrying. Long-stemmed and elegant, they have been grown, selected, arranged, and purchased for a single, unambiguous purpose: to seduce.

One call that I never will forget came at close to four A.M., waking me; he must have just gotten up in Los Angeles. His voice said, "Alex Haley?" I said, sleepily, "Yes? Oh, hey, Malcolm!" His voice said, "I trust you seventy percent" -- and then he hung up. I lay a short time thinking about him and I went back to sleep feeling warmed by that call, as I still am warmed to remember it. Neither of us ever mentioned it." The Autobiography of Malcolm X

And I needed to be with a friend, okay? A living, breathing, wonderful friend whom I absolutely adore.

A true friend might leave his buddy's side physically, but never mentally

the I-It relationship, we treat other people as objects and expect something back from each relationship. In contrast, in the I-Thou relationship we relate to others out of respect, friendship, and love.

I consider my mom and all my sisters my friends.

How often we sit weeping — you and I — over the life we lead! My friends, if you only knew the darkness of the days ahead!

Reading teaches me the answers to the problems I haven't had yet, or to problems I didn't even know how to describe. And when I feel less alone with what troubles me, it is easier to find solutions. A book to me is like a friend, a shelter, advice, an argument with someone who cares enough to argue with me for a better answer than the one we both already have. Books aren't just a door to another world-each book is part of a door to the whole world, a door that always has more behind it.

Cold in my professions, warm in ?my? friendships, I wish, my Dear Laurens, it m?ight? be in my power, by action rather than words, ?to? convince you that I love you.

Pride of friend or enemy did not need any words.

they fought for each other, not some plan from high authority.

All that this world knows of living lies in giving -- and more giving; He that keeps, be sure he loses -Friendship grows by what it uses.

Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.

Histories are more full of the examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

I've often wish'd that I had clear,For life, six hundred pounds a year;A handsome house to lodge a friend,A river at my garden's end,A terrace walk, and half a roodOf land set out to plant a wood.

True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd,Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.