Friends Visiting Quotes

#1. That was it. She came out of it. She never had such a down as that or such an up as the three days that preceded it, not ever again in her life. The rest of her life was like a long thin line with little diminuendos and tiny little crescendos, and friends visiting from out of town.

Sheila Heti

#2. Never live life without a hope.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#3. My family is very good about visiting me, and other friends as well.

Billy Graham

#4. I'd love to have the kind of friend who would visit me before visiting a man. Otherwise I know where I'm ranked, which is below him.

Donna Lynn Hope

#5. Dortmunder and the Major strolled away down the long corridor overlooking customs, with the duty-free shops on one side of the corridor and on the other side the railing where people can stand and look down at their returning relatives and visiting foreign friends being degraded.

Donald E. Westlake

#6. We are fonder of visiting our friends in health than in sickness. We judge less favorably of their characters when any misfortune happens to them; and a lucky hit, either in business or reputation, improves even their personal appearance in our eyes.

William Hazlitt

#7. In a Ramada Inn near the grapevine, they stop to rest for the night. Traveling down south, looking for good times. Visiting old friends feels right.

Neil Young

#8. My parents allowed their two sons to be individuals. My family was a wild and wonderful place, with lots of friends and neighbors visiting and talking loud and eating loud and nobody telling the children to be quiet or putting them down.

John Cassavetes

#9. Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

Francis Bacon

#10. Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#11. My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.

Jesse Jackson

#12. Visiting friends just to shoot the shit is the human equivalent of picking ticks off of one another's backs.

David McRaney

#13. Cognitive psychology has shown that the mind best understands facts when they are woven into a conceptual fabric, such as a narrative, mental map, or intuitive theory. Disconnected facts in the mind are like unlinked pages on the Web: They might as well not exist.

Steven Pinker

#14. There's no remedy for a spat between friends like visiting flaming, whirling death upon your enemies.

Bard Bloom

#15. I, made in England, felt excluded, miffed, resistant to the idea of even visiting India, a position of increasing absurdity as, one by one, backpacking friends returned from the place with the standard anecdotal combo of nirvanic epiphany and toilet horror.

Glen Duncan

#16. Writers the most learned, the most accurate in details, and the soundest in tendency, frequently fall into a habit which can neither be cured nor pardoned,-the habit of making history into the proof of their theories.

Lord Acton

#17. I had dreamed of visiting Bali for many years and because I had an extended family of Balinese friends in Los Angeles, I felt connected. The island is so peaceful and the smiles are constant.

Carolyn Murphy

#18. I'm homeless. I've taken to the belief that home is not where we lay our heads comfortably some nights, or where we entertain visiting friends. It's not where love is unconditional.
When I look up and realize I haven't run away in a long time, I'll know I'm home.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#19. Reading was like visiting distant friends.

Allegra Goodman

#20. You basically get what you reward. If you want to achieve the goals and reflect the values in your mission statement, then you need to align the reward system with these goals and values.

Stephen Covey

#21. One's own flowers and some of one's own vegetables make acceptable, free, self-congratulatory gifts when visiting friends, though giving zucchini - or leaving it on the doorstep, ringing the bell, and running - is a social faux pas.

Barbara Holland

#22. Once when Gold was visiting in Florida,his father drew him across the street just to meet some friends and introduced him by saying,"This is my son's brother.The one that never amounted to much.

Joseph Heller

#23. Dreaming costs nothing, it is absolutely free but its reward is enormous. Learn to dream for this is one of the things the unstoppable women do!

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#24. I think any person who goes to Rikers is criminalized, even just for visiting. I go back every week to see my friends in there. When you go to see a criminal, you are by relation a criminal and subject to be treated like one.

Cecily McMillan