Quotes About Lifelong Friends

#1. Holding myself to perfectionistic standards, I used to think I had to become lifelong friends with everyone who entered my life. This was exhausting, and I now know it's not true. I believe the old saying that people come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. (127)

Jenni Schaefer

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

Joseph Bruchac

#3. 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

#4. I have lifelong friends. My oldest friend, Herbie, has been a friend since I was 9. I've had bonds for over 50 years with people.

Larry King

#5. I think for me it's just a matter of staying keyed into my lifelong friends from New York and family. And, you know, I'm pretty solitary. I'm a homebody. So I don't get out much to get into trouble

Debra Messing

#6. I've seen lifelong friends drift apart over golf just because one could play better, but the other counted better.

Stephen Leacock

#7. I'm glad I went through the training because I've met such great mentors and lifelong friends/collaborators along the way. Also, any training (acting, movement, dance, piano, singing, etc) allowed me to hone my skills and find an inner space of self-generating creativity.

Jade Hassoune

#8. Madeline traveled with ease through dozens of overlapping social circles, making both lifelong friends and lifetime enemies along the way; probably more of the latter.

Liane Moriarty

#9. One of the gifts of 'Star Trek' is my professional work colleagues have become my lifelong friends.

George Takei

#10. I'm a very honorable person. I have lifelong friends from birth, from grammar school, from five years old.

Tony Vlachos

#11. I have some lifelong friends I grew up with.

Kevin Connolly

#12. August is the month when wars start. It's when the water dries up and the spirit begins to wither. Insomniacs pull down their shades and lock themselves in their rooms in August. Lifelong friends have fist fights. People feel like they're going to burst. Sometimes they do.

Al Aronowitz

#13. Oh yeah, 'Starship Troopers' was one of the best experiences of my life, and I made some lifelong friends.

Jake Busey

#14. I count myself really fortunate that I have some lifelong friends. The best thing about a friend is when you are being your own worst enemy a friend can help snap you out of it.

Amy Grant

#15. When it comes to books ... They're like lifelong friends to me; I need to know they're there, even if I don't check in with them on a regular basis.

Vendela Vida

#16. Alice Roosevelt Longworth was only a few years older than my mother but outlived her by a decade, dying in 1980. From the time they met, in 1917, they were lifelong friends of sorts, though each was a bit wary of the other.

Katharine Graham

#17. Lifelong enemies are, I think, as hard to make and as important to one's well-being as lifelong friends.

Jessica Mitford

#18. If you want to build lifelong, loyal friendships, if you want to build trust, learn to protect your family members and friends even when they make mistakes.

Joel Osteen

#19. Zoe was wearing a yello batik cotton dress, her typewriter keys bracelet, plaid sneakers, and glitter in her hair, in honor of meeting such a luminous personality as Bronwyn Gilwen.

Christine Brodien-Jones

#20. There are no such things in life as compromises without resentment, only delayed reactions.

Krishna Udayasankar

#21. I definitely think it [the key to maintain success] is a number of things. It's having the right people behind you. It's having the right work ethic. It's having the right mind-set. And it's also a little bit of luck.

Jordin Sparks

#22. It seems though, that the Tiger's obsession tries to overcome the true affection between two people.

Pet Torres

#23. I love you," I said to her. "From the bottom of my heart. I don't ever want to let you go again. But there's nothing I can do. I can't make a move."
"Because of her?"
I nodded.

Haruki Murakami

#24. I grew up with a lot of Muslim friends, and the whole idea of revelation has been a lifelong interest of mine.

Deepak Chopra

#25. I had been a lifelong Alan Turing obsessive. Among incredibly nerdy teenagers, without a lot of friends, Alan Turing was always this luminary figure we'd all look up to.

Graham Moore

#26. Marriage, friends, is a lifelong feast; love is no light lunch.

Garrison Keillor

#27. Doctrine is a wonderful servant and a horrible master.

Rob Bell

#28. We went to lunch and were talking about procrastination and the waitress overheard us and she said, 'I have a problem with procrastination, too.' I said 'Really? ... Get my sandwich.'

Ellen DeGeneres

#29. A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.

William Feather

#30. I know of no common interest that exceeds gardening as a source of lifelong friendships, nor as a means of making new friends almost constantly.

Allen Lacy

#31. It is true that you can't choose your family, but you can choose your friends.
It is also true that you can choose your partner and in doing so, you end up choosing the family you've always wanted.

J.R. Rim

#32. People have power and it is very important to respect that. Everybody's had thousands of lifetimes, and who knows what anyone has learned in a lifetime ... respect not fear.

Frederick Lenz

#33. Your eloquence should be the servant of the ideas in your head. Your rule might be this: If a sentence, no matter how excellent, does not illuminate your subject in some new and useful way, scratch it out.

Kurt Vonnegut