Top 35 Quotes About Growing Up And Friendship
#1. But [Patrick's] character is partly based on a boy named Mark who lived across the street from me when I was growing up ... I liked hanging out with him and was sad when he moved away after only a year in the neighborhood. I guess writing about Patrick is a way for me to spend more time with Mark.
Linda Sue Park
#2. We should learn from flowers, earthly stars which spend their entire lives shining, shining and growing despite all the difficulties they encounter. They know how to listen and understand the whispers of time, for it is an eternal friend that teaches the importance of friendship and sparkling hope.
Nur Bedeir
#3. It was just that there was something newly powerful about this assembled family in the car. They were all growing up and into each other like trees striving together for the sun.
Maggie Stiefvater
#4. While the deficit and debt are serious problems, I oppose solving these problems by raising taxes.
Jason Chaffetz
#5. If growing up means not seeing one's family and friends on the regular - all in the name of paying the bills, then growing up is overrated.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#6. A Savvy Auntie knows that sisterhood and friendship are organic, transforming and growing as life goes on.
Anonymous
#7. Such is life. We grow up. Planets like Tiny get new moons. Moons like me get new planets.
John Green
#8. I just do not hang around anybody that I don't want to be with. Period. For me, that's been a blessing, and I can stay positive. I hang around people who are happy, who are growing, who want to learn, who don't mind saying sorry or thank you ... and [are] having a fun time.
John Assaraf
#9. Friendships do not grow up in any carefully tended and contemplated fashion ... They begin haphazard.
Christopher Morley
#10. When I was growing up, my mother was always a friend to my siblings and me (in addition to being all the other things a mom is), and I was always grateful for that because I knew she was someone I could talk to and joke with, and argue with and that nothing would ever harm that friendship.
Marlo Thomas
#11. Always make an effort to be around people who will help you grow.
Joyce Rachelle
#12. The first thing I see is the gluten-free section, filled with crackers and bread made from various wheat substitutes such as cardboard and sawdust. I skip this aisle because I'm not rich enough to have dietary restrictions.
Anonymous
#13. Growing apart doesn't change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I'm glad for that.
Ally Condie
#14. That's how it started: a series of small hurts and excuses between two people that built up slowly, widening over time to form a vast and yawning divide.
Nenia Campbell
#15. How do we deal with all the people we've been? What happens when we have to confront them?
Rachel Kapelke-Dale
#16. But he saw a rare determination in Haley's eyes. I can trust Haley's judgement, he told himself, even as he remembered how Haley had eaten that cheddar with the mold growing on it two weeks before.
Cheese and people are not the same.
Kit Alloway
#17. We're about to hit that age when we'll be too exhausted to maintain friendships, and the days of hanging out will be long behind us.
Gume Laurel III
#19. Men will continue to suffer from their own connivance, until they recognise and act upon the truth within themselves.
Georgina Zuvela
#20. As people grow up, they realize it's less important to have more friends and more important to have real ones.
Lauren Conrad
#21. They sealed this promise by hooking pinkies, the way they used to, long ago, when promises didn't hurt as much.
Alice Hoffman
#23. ... when your palm laced like water
on a cheek of mine, a finger raiding
each contour by oath, we both knew
that in growing up, some signs had to be
sought behind closed doors, and upon discovery,
remain beyond the doors we wrought as ransom.
Jerrold Yam
#24. If you desire with all your heart, friendship with every race on earth, your thought, spiritual and positive, will spread; it will become the desire of others, growing stronger and stronger, until it reaches the minds of all men.
Abdu'l- Baha
#25. Many kinds of fruit grow upon the tree of life, but none so sweet as friendship; as with the orange tree its blossoms and fruit appear at the same time, full of refreshment for sense and for soul.
Lucy Larcom
#26. When I read 'Stand By Me,' it was like, 'This is a look back at the same time period when I was growing up, and it was about kids, but it really felt like what it was like to have those powerful feelings of friendship at age 12.' That's what got to me.
Rob Reiner
#27. I wanted to say all these things about how you just have to hold on to the things you love and let go of all the rest.
Charlotte Eriksson
#28. I'm a big man and I like big dogs ... The dogs kept growing until only one of us could get in the elevator. It caused enough hassles so they finally kicked me out of my apartment.
Wilt Chamberlain
#29. Among the worst things about growing old is the loss of those irreplaceable friends who added richness and depth to your life.
Pat Conroy
#30. Looking back on months and years of intimacy, to feel that your friend, while you still remember the moving words you exchanged, is yet growing distant and living in a world apart - all this is sadder far than partings brought by death.
Yoshida Kenko
#31. I'm outside.
Oh.
And I can hear you.
Ohhh.
You said my name.
Oh. My. God.
Let me in
Alice Clayton
#32. Some people make you want to be a better person, and that, for me, is the purest form of love.
Charlotte Eriksson
#33. A mentor long departed told me that the greatest gift in political life, in any life, is to view yourself objectively, at arm's length, to make an assessment of yourself. So whom do I rely on? I rely on myself.
Hugh Carey
#34. You're the only friend I need
Sharing beds like little kids
And laughing 'til our ribs get tough
But that will never be enough
You're the only friend I need
Sharing beds like little kids
And laughing 'til our ribs get tough
But that will never be enough
Lorde
#35. Every day you say something or do something that challenges me, changes me.
Kiera Cass
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