Quotes About Friends

#1. Petersburg, growing up at home, all by my family and friends, Petersburg really, city-raised me, you know everybody there.

Trey Songz

#2. Change ain't looking for friends. Change calls the tune we all dance to.

Al Swearengen

#3. I do not go out to dinner or to the movies with the neighbors, as I do with my friends. I don't make dates with them. I don't have to.

Cathleen Schine

#4. All my friends were in the park smoking weed and getting pregnant. I didn't want to be the young black girl having a baby, a baby's father, being on welfare. That wasn't going to be my story.

Foxy Brown

#5. I remember as a kid not ever wanting to have friends around to my house because it was, for want of a better description, disheveled.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

#6. Genius as an explosive power beats gunpowder hollow; and if knowledge, which should give that power guidance, is wanting, the chances are not small that the rocket will simply run amuck among friends and foes.

Thomas Huxley

#7. Dawn and dusk are mutual friends of the sun; one opens the door for him to a brand new day and the other one has to shut it to embrace the darkness of night.

Munia Khan

#8. Variant selves haunt
the corridors of my brain, people
my novels, crowd in like ghosts
drawn to blood when friends
or strangers tell me secrets,
hand me their troubles,
sweaters knit of hair and wire.

Marge Piercy

#9. One of my roles as vice president is to - is to be an interlocutor with the Senate and the House because everybody up there knows I respect them and I enjoy it. And I have a lot of good friends on both sides of the aisle up there.

Joe Biden

#10. He's very concealed, Polanski. We became very close friends, but I don't think I ever saw him drop his guard. I didn't see him upset or anything like that, we just did the work.

Ronald Harwood

#11. A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends.

Cyril Connolly

#12. But I think Prozac is a lethal drug, I've several friends just haven't made it by taking Prozac.

Bob Geldof

#13. There's no ex out there who I'm not friends with today, and I'm extremely thankful for that.

Taylor Lautner

#14. I sing really well, my friends say. I don't like my voice, but I sang on stage during the Sahara awards a few years ago, so I don't mind singing.

Suresh Raina

#15. And now, my friends, a dragon's toast! Here's to life's little blessings: war, plagues, and all forms of evil. Their presence keeps us alert
and their absence keeps us grateful.

T.A. Barron

#16. Most of my lyrics are little stories about my experiences or those of my friends.

Sade Adu

#17. I leave quoting me to my friends

Mike Voyce

#18. Esteem your friends,
revere your teachers,
honor your parents,
regard your supporters.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#19. I was a tomboy and most of my close friends were male.

S.E. Hinton

#20. I realized that, all along, my theory was right: Make music that you want to hear, and instead of having fans that one day might criticize or abandon you, your fans aren't even fans. They're people with tastes similar to yours. They're friends you haven't met yet.

Natalia Kills

#21. People who were close to me - family and friends - they knew about my sexuality.

Greg Louganis

#22. It is a beautiful thing when folks in poverty are no longer just a missions project but become genuine friends and family with whom we laugh, cry, dream and struggle.

Shane Claiborne

#23. Love is only chatter, friends are all that matter.

Gelett Burgess

#24. You know when everyone's watching, your mom and dad, your friends in high school who thought they were better than you. You get your chance to get in the spotlight and shine.

Shaun Alexander

#25. Grandpa," I asked, "what good's it going to do us, knowing his name?" "It might do a lot of good," Grandpa said. "This trainer says that if you could make friends with that monkey he would probably do anything you wanted him to do." "Make friends with him!" I said. "Grandpa, I don't

Wilson Rawls

#26. The only thing to do is to hug one's friends tight and do one's job.

Edith Wharton

#27. How to Find Your Joylah
1. Try new things
2. Be open to new friends
3. Visit new places
4. Listen to new ideas
5. Remember each day is a new day
6. And it's really no big deal if beads get mixed up every once in a while

Elizabeth Atkinson

#28. One day, millions of men will leave the Southern Hemisphere to go to the Northern Hemisphere. And they will not go there as friends. Because they will go there to conquer it. And they will conquer it with their sons. The wombs of our women will give us victory.

Houari Boumediene

#29. Friends humor and flatter us, they steal our time, they encourage our love of ease, they make us content with ourselves, they are the foes of our virtue and our glory.

John Lancaster Spalding

#30. After a while, the cocaine - I didn't have any friends. I was just alone and I didn't even like myself.

George Jung

#31. A wedding isn't for the bride and groom, it's for the family and friends. The B. and G. are just props, silly stick figures with no more significance than the pink and white candy figures on the top of the cake.

Susan Cheever

#32. We can't chose family," Cain agreed. "But we can chose our friends.

Tina Folsom

#33. [Karen:] Why would you want to be friends with him?
[Rylie:] He has good insight into the male psyche. Besides, he's fun to talk to.
[Karen:] He's fun to screw, too, that doesn't mean it's a good idea.

Jessica Lave

#34. No man can be friends with a woman he finds attractive. He always wants to have sex with her. Sex is always out there. Friendship is ultimately doomed and that is the end of the story.

Nora Ephron

#35. I usually spend Valentines Day with my friends. But if I did have a girlfriend, I'd bring her flowers and candy.

Zac Efron

#36. Well, you don't get to do things that other children get to do, having friends and slumber parties and buddies. There were none of that for me. I didn't have friends when I was little. My brothers were my friends.

Michael Jackson

#37. I explored alternate states of consciousness at one period of my life through psychedelics, as was the fashion with all my friends.

Frederick Lenz

#38. DON'T GIVE IT ANOTHER THOUGHT," he said. "WE'RE PALS, AREN'T WE? WHAT ARE FRIENDS FOR? I'LL NEVER LEAVE YOU.

John Irving

#39. As we practice meditation, we get used to stillness and eventually are able to make
friends with the quietness of our sensations.

Sharon Salzberg

#40. After my recent brush with voicelessness, I thought I'd share with you a few thoughts about speech. Don't take it lightly my friends. If music is the pathway to the heart as Voltaire suggested, then speech is the pathway to other people. Live in silence and you live alone.

Henry Bromell

#41. You are crazy how?? Just delete everything around you, starting from friends, bus, objects and everything delete everything leave space and delete our planet what do you see?? Yourself, there and laughing like an crazy mental guy! - So I proved that you are crazy

Deyth Banger

#42. All that I want now is to live out my life in ease in a familiar world, to die in my own bed and be followed to the grave by old friends.

J.M. Coetzee

#43. I never felt comfortable with myself, because I was never part of the majority. I always felt awkward and shy and on the outside of the momentum of my friends' lives.

Steven Spielberg

#44. Friends, the church is to be centered on the Lord Jesus Christ.

Billy Graham

#45. I love Friends, so I try to bring Jennifer Aniston's mannerisms to my show.

Selena

#46. It is a sad truth in life that when someone has lost a loved one, friends sometimes avoid the person, just when the presence of friends is most needed.

Lemony Snicket

#47. Nothing inspires me greater than the silly behaviour and crazy ideas of my best friends...

Mykyta Isagulov

#48. I've never had a problem with the way I look. I'd rather go for lunch with my friends than go to a gym.

Adele

#49. I tend to only read comics written by friends or people I've known. And I'm not a great comic reader.

Grant Morrison

#50. My good friends, for the second time in our history, a British Prime Minister has returned from Germany bringing peace with honor. I believe it is peace for our time ... Go home and get a nice quiet sleep.

Neville Chamberlain

#51. Life is a forced state! I am surprized that we live, rather than that our friends die.

Erasmus Darwin

#52. Actually, I only have a few friends in real life. And when I say friends, I'm referring to those people who I've known since the 1960s.

Jean Reno

#53. But in our experience, man is cheap and friendship wants its deep sense. We affect to dwell with our friends in their absence, but we do not; when deed, word, or letter comes not, they let us go.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#54. Librarians ... have been my lifelong friends, guides and heroes.

Joseph Bruchac

#55. You choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.

Gary Oldman

#56. For ages, in my lunch hours, I would just go round and choreograph fight scenes. For fun. So now I'm very good at being thrown around. I bounce, in the words of my friends.

Daniel Radcliffe

#57. I'm surrounded by great friends and family. I don't know what I would do without them.

Emma Roberts

#58. Eating is the purest mode of consumption. Our purchases are statements about our social class, our friends, and our beliefs. Buying something as continually necessary as food is an ongoing act of self-definition.

Evan D.G. Fraser

#59. But we Americans scrap relationships that are not working as we would like -- whether they be with relatives, with spouses, or with friends. We dispose of them like Kleenex. When it is inconvenient, painful, difficult, I get rid of you. I hit the road.

Stuart Miller

#60. Sneaking out the back door to hand out with those hoodlum friends of mine.

Stevie Wonder

#61. It's funny how you can grow away from your friends, when just a few years ago they were the most important people in your life.

Judy Blume

#62. I'm the first kid to write of hearts, lies, and friends, and I'm sorry my conscience called in sick again. I've got arrogance down to a science.

Pete Wentz

#63. I know that if a team had a derogatory name for African Americans, I would help those who helped extinguish that name. I have quite a few friends who are Native Americans. And even if I didn't have Native American friends, the name of the team is disrespectful.

Mike Carey

#64. Friends are friends," Brightspot said, "whether I've known them for a long time or a short time.

Janet Kagan

#65. I don't think anybody should ever take their life for being bullied. But if it wasn't for my family ... and my circle of friends, I could definitely see why someone would see it doesn't get any better than this, but it does. Life is so beautiful.

Khloe Kardashian

#66. I'm close with my parents. I have a lot of acquaintances, but my very good close friends are few I can count my very good friends on one hand. And that's how I like it to be.

Calista Flockhart

#67. Friendship is one of the grand fundamental principles of "Mormonism"; [it is designed] to revolutionize and civilize the world, and cause wars and contentions to cease and men to become friends and brothers

Joseph Smith Jr.

#68. Hens were wandering about like ladies at a lyceum tea trying to find their friends before selecting their seats.

Gregory Maguire

#69. Fruits each in its season, are the cheapest, most elegant and wholesome dessert you can offer your family or friends, at luncheon or tea. Pastry and plum-pudding should be prohibited by law, from the beginning of June until the end of September.

Mary Virginia Terhune

#70. Ive got a lot of friends there and there is stuff to do but as much as I dislike LA I really like living and working in New York City.

David Cross

#71. Remembering from last year how Haymitch's gifts are often timed to send a message, I make a note to myself. Be friends with Finnick. You'll get food.

Suzanne Collins

#72. Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as enemies and equals?

Stephen King

#73. Your close men friends should be willing to challenge your mediocrity by suggesting a concrete action you can perform that will pop you out of your rut, one way or the other. And you must be willing to offer them your brutal honesty, in the same way, if you are all to grow.

David Deida

#74. Hidden yourself in a hole and dared to burden no one with your grievous friendship? I will have friends, Katsa. I will have a life, even though I carry this burden.

Kristin Cashore

#75. You wanna Know who your true friends are? Screw up and see who's still there.

Jeffree Star

#76. (About sweeping) ...
What he was in FACT doing was moving the dirt around with a broom, to give it a change of scenery and a chance to make new friends.

Terry Pratchett

#77. Listening is everything. Listening is the whole deal. That's what I think. And I mean that in terms of before you work, after you work, in between work, with your children, with your husband, with your friends, with your mother, with your father. It's everything. And it's where you learn everything.

Meryl Streep

#78. Taylor Swift is very strategic with her friends and enemies. And I know lots of secrets. I can't divulge, but I know a lot of stuff about her. And I'm scared. I'm scared for my life.

Diplo

#79. It is not hard to deceive ministers, relatives and friends. But it is impossible to deceive Christ.

J.C. Ryle

#80. Nikki lives around the corner from me and I see him all the time. We talk a lot, and of course we're still friends. That was our baby, Motley Crue, we put that band together.

Tommy Lee

#81. The two friends set out towards "Eve's Apple." It is unnecessary to mention that they had first gathered up the money, and that the archdeacon followed them.

Victor Hugo

#82. We should not talk about our friends: otherwise we will talk away the feeling of friendship.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#83. As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.

Natalie Gulbis

#84. I tend to hang out with my friends in Los Angeles from high school. We know each other from back in the day. They still see me as just dumb Tyra. We have a strong bond.

Tyra Banks

#85. The two things I've been told most often since my career took off - by taxi drivers, lifelong friends and everyone in between - have been, 'Don't ever change, Margot' and 'You can't do that anymore, Margot.'

Margot Robbie

#86. It goes to extremes - from people saying I'm the best of all-time to people saying, "I hate that white boy." Who cares? At the end of the day, if people don't like you, they're not your friends anyway.

Riff Raff

#87. I'm making friends. You wouldn't know anything about that.

Donna Augustine

#88. Anything can be done if you find friends to do it with. The lucky biographers find themselves drawn into a sort of friendship with their subject.

Amity Shlaes

#89. I had a lot of encouragement and tolerance from my parents, but I also have many friends who didn't get that from their parents and in a way they have more strength from spending years where nobody believed in them.

Michel Gondry

#90. We were walking that tightrope between friends and something more ...

Melissa Aragon

#91. To friends and eke to foes true kindness show; No kindly heart unkindly deeds will do; Harshness will alienate a bosom friend. And kindness reconcile a deadly foe.

Omar Khayyam

#92. Back before the internet we had a name for people who bought a single copy of our books and lent them to all their friends without charging: we called them "librarians".

Charles Stross

#93. She had been a solitary child, and then solitary as a woman, drawn into an orbit of her own that took her away from others, even those who would be her friends.

Guy Gavriel Kay

#94. I think I'd probably be really good friends with Hulk Hogan. I think we'd get along, and I'd, like, chill him out because he'd be all rambunctious and rowdy, and I'd be like, 'Chill out, Hulk Hogan. Everything will be okay.' And he'd be like, 'Thanks, Ron.' And then we'd form a friendship.

Ron Funches

#95. Men leave their riches either to their kindred or their friends, and moderate portions prosper best in both.

Francis Bacon

#96. I had a lot of friends in high school who said, 'Louie, I don't care what the government does as long as they leave me alone.' Well, guess what, when you don't care what the government does, it does not leave you alone.

Louie Gohmert

#97. Friends give you a cushion for the fall, even when you think you don't need or want one.

J.D. Robb

#98. Go outside occasionally to smoke a cigarette. It's a good way to make friends, it makes you look cool, and you're already dead on the inside, anyway.

Thought Catalog

#99. You are no longer a boy, and one of the first duties which a man owes to his friends and to society is to live within his income.

Thomas Hughes

#100. I know friends of mine who have never changed their mind about anything in their lives, despite evidence from all directions. And I think if you can keep an open mind and some understanding, that helps you stay young.

Dick Van Dyke