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Quotes About Friendship

This," I said, "could be the start of a beautiful friendship.
~ Joseph Bruchac
Time explodes, so again, eternity is not something everlasting. You can have it right here, now, in your experience of your earthly relationships. I've lost a lot of friends,...that moment when I was with them has an everlasting quality about it that is now still with me. What it gave me then is still with me, and there's a kind of intimation of immortality in that.
~ Joseph Campbell
At first as they stumped along the path which edged the Hundred Acre Wood, they didn't say much to each other; but when they came to the stream, and had helped each other across the stepping stones, and were able to walk side by side again over the heather, they began to talk in a friendly way ...
~ A A Milne
He who tells the truth will lose friends. A Wise Man
~ A Wise Man RJI
We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet. Even longer,' Pooh answered.
~ A. A. Milne
You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
~ A. A. Milne
Oh, Eeyore, you are wet!" said Piglet, feeling him. Eeyore shook himself, and asked somebody to explain to Piglet what happened when you had been inside a river for quite a long time.
~ A. A. Milne
Turn around, Piglet. Step lightly, Pooh. This silly ol' dance is perfect for two.
~ A. A. Milne
Hallo, Eeyore." "Same to you, Pooh Bear, and twice on Thursdays," said Eeyore gloomily. Before Pooh could say: 'Why Thursdays?' Christopher Robin began to explain the sad story of Eeyore's lost house.
~ A. A. Milne
I do remember,' explained Christopher Robin, 'only Pooh doesn't very well, so that's why he likes having it told to him again. Because then it's a real story and not just a remembering.
~ A. A. Milne
But I can't stay here for a week!" "You can stay here all right, silly old Bear. It's getting you out which is so difficult.
~ A. A. Milne
The Piglet was sitting on the ground at the door of his house blowing happily at a dandelion, and wondering whether it would be this year, next year, sometime or never. He had just discovered that it would be never, and was trying to remember what it was, and hoping it wasn't anything nice, when Pooh came up.
~ A. A. Milne
I perceive that I am neither a planter of the backwoods, pioneer, nor settler there, but an inhabitant of the Mind, and given to friendship and ideas. The ancient society, the Old England of New England, Massachusetts for me.
~ A. Bronson Alcott
Vance shook his head. "Philly, I love you, buddy. I do. But you're not my type." "I'm not?" "What? Are you insulted?" Philip was pondering that when the front door jingled.
~ A. Lee Martinez
Judy went back to Paulie's place, but either he wasn't home or he wasn't answering his door. After banging on the door for four minutes, then waiting another ten, she decided she'd probably have to find someplace else to crash today She wished she'd taken the time to actually have a few friends.
~ A. Lee Martinez
That's a wonderful change that's taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends.
~ A. R. Ammons
The true basis for friendships is a prejudice or two in common," Max liked to say.
~ A. Scott Berg
Bronze gods, Mikani. You've seen death before. Bloody hells, we've buried friends together, you and I." "She's different, Hu." "Then tell her that before it's too late, you sodding imbecile.
~ A.A. Aguirre
if you want to be really lonely, try a big city. Everyone's a stranger, and if you don't have just the right kind of contacts, they remain strangers.
~ A.A. Fair
Brains were being lured to California by mere money. Mere money and space, and sun, and steak, and Hollywood, and more money and opportunity and optimism and openness. All the Os but without one-upmanship. And there was ownership, and friendship, and a future. All inconsequential fripperies, according to the Old World: beads and mirrors. People who took the dollar in exchange for their brains were unpatriotic in much the same way that tax exiles were.
~ A.A. Gill
give a New York friend a panic attack, turn up unannounced on a Wednesday and suggest going for a drink. It is easier to organize five guys to raise a flag on Iwo Jima than to get mates out for movie and dinner. Surprise parties are such fun, but require e-mail "save the date" warnings. And everyone needs to know how to dress.
~ A.A. Gill
Friendship," said Christopher Robin, "is a very comforting thing to have.
~ A.A. Milne
Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.
~ A.A. Milne
Pooh," said Rabbit kindly, "you haven't any brain." "I know," said Pooh humbly.
~ A.A. Milne