Quotes About Long Friendships

#1. Long friendships are like jewels, polished over time to become beautiful and enduring.

Celia Brayfield

#2. We started college having 18 years old young, naive spirit and we left as grown ups, men and women with life long friendships,life partners, it made us who we are whether we like it or not.

Anonymous Young Girl

#3. I boldly assert, in fact I think I know, that a lot of friendships and connections absolutely depend upon a sort of shared language, or slang. Not necessarily designed to exclude others, this can establish a certain comity and, even after a long absence, re-establish it in a second.

Christopher Hitchens

#4. Time is too swift for those who fear, too long for those who wait, too short for those who finally find peace, but for those who love, time is eternal. For nothing is ever lost that God wants you to find.

Shannon L. Alder

#5. I have three friendships that have lasted a long time, but everybody else has come and gone.

Alexa Vega

#6. Our two party platforms were emphatic about Jerusalem being the capital of Israel. For the Obama administration to remove this language from the Democratic Party platform drives a wedge into one of the few issues that our two parties agreed on.

Paul Ryan

#7. He opened the veins of the social body to cure the disease; but he allowed life to flow out, pure or impure, with indifference, without casting himself between the victims and the executioners.

Charles Warwick

#8. There are a lot of very strong connections with music and mathematics. They both can work in patterns and sequences and repetitions.

Kate Bush

#9. The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.

George Bernard Shaw

#10. Because I have sixty years of being a professional composer, conductor, musician, whatever, and you develop a lot of friendships and you get involved with a lot of sort of long-term commitments and obligations.

Gunther Schuller

#11. I found that jazz musicians, possibly more than their classical counterparts, wear long-standing friendships easily and gracefully.

Andre Previn

#12. Falling in love is one of the activities forbidden that tiresome person, the consistently reasonable man.

Arthur Eddington

#13. I know that the arms of friendship are long enough to reach from the one end of the world to the other

Michel De Montaigne

#14. Friendship is a sacred thing and I do not extend the word lightly. I've had long-term romances in my life but few genuine friendships. I am exceedingly picky about who I let in my inner circle and because of that I have a few friends and many acquaintances.

Donna Lynn Hope

#15. The loving person makes other people feel good, and he is usually a happy person himself. He is able to form strong, long-lasting friendships.

Benjamin Spock

#16. For many, long-term friendships, rather than family ties, are the foundations for sustainable lives.

Mariella Frostrup

#17. Your heart's strength is measured by how hard it holds on. Your self worth and faith is measured by finally letting go. However, your peace is measured by how long you don't look back.

Shannon L. Alder

#18. Just as people have long believed that strengthening ties of trade improves the prospects for peace and the free exchange of ideas, Facebook friendships or Twitter followings already transcend national borders.

Douglas Alexander

#19. The real thing young people should fear is missing out on those few, true, long-term friendships that make for a richer, happier life.

Robin Marantz Henig

#20. I have known men to hazard their fortunes, go long journeys halfway about the world, forget friendships, even lie, cheat, and steal, all for the gain of a book.

A. S. W. Rosenbach

#21. Then August knew. Thomas didn't dwell on things. Thomas was strong, and he didn't know what it was to be afraid. He knew he could get what he wanted, never questioning his identity or who he would be the next day.
He was everything August wasn't, and that's why August hated him.

Kris Noel

#22. The great novels have marched with the years. They are the contemporaries of time.

Ellen Glasgow

#23. that the servant who stood by her bedside

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#24. John D. Rockefeller said that he found friendships based on business to be far more long lasting and profitable than the reverse. I think there's something to that. A company can end up being very Confucian, where the good of the individual is subjugated to the good of the whole.

Ben Horowitz

#25. you don't speak up, you're not going to get it.

Samanthe Beck

#26. Every once in a while your world stands still ... There are certain friendships that are so important they leave a mark on you long after the person is gone.

Art Buchwald

#27. Long afterward Amory thought of sophomore spring as the happiest time of his life. His ideas were in tune with life as he found it; he wanted no more than to drift and dream and enjoy a dozen new-found friendships through the April afternoons.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#28. Poetry is my life, my postmark, my hands, my kitchen, my face.

Anne Sexton

#29. Without a doubt, my richest relationships are my long-term friendships with musical partners, because we make music together. That's what we love to do with our lives.

Chick Corea

#30. The Savior encouraged brotherhood. He was not a long-distance leader. He walked and worked with those whom he led. He was not afraid of close friendships. He spent many hours with his disciples, and his relationships with them were intimate.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#31. Not all friendships take a long time to grow and deepen. Some are formed in an instant.

Robin Lee Hatcher

#32. To experience peace ~ stop disturbing it!

Julia Heywood

#33. How long will it be until the two countries I love forgive each other and move on ... I'm not even sure what there is to forgive. Something about Cuba seizing ownership of oil refineries. It's all so confusing. Why should something as ugly as oil affect friendships between nations?

Margarita Engle

#34. Some friendships fade. Others dissolve under stress or disagreement. Still other friends just leave. Those that stick, however, are almost irreplaceable; and the sadness of long life is losing friends.

Hugh Hewitt

#35. I support any means to make real connections so long as that it does lead really quickly to real connections. It's the long-term online friendships and relationships that start to get a little hairy.

Nev Schulman

#36. 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

#37. God in His grace will allow us a certain number of friendships that stick for the long haul of life. These friendships are a treasured blessing.

Bill Hybels

#38. All male friendships are essentially quixotic: they last only so long as each man is willing to polish the shaving-bowl helmet, climb on his donkey, and ride off after the other in pursuit of illusive glory and questionable adventure.

Michael Chabon

#39. One of the happiest days of my life is when I made five or six hundred pesos from a crop of watermelons I raise all on my own.

Emiliano Zapata