Quotes About Visiting Friends

#1. 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

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

David McRaney

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

Francis Bacon

#4. 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

#5. When people are courting, many of them think that when they get married, that's it, and everything will be on Easy Street. But you really have to work even harder once you're married, because the challenges are that much greater.

Morris Chestnut

#6. A moment of panic washed over her. There was so little time, it might even now be too late to shape them. Look at her own daughters. Keffria, who only wanted someone to tell her what to do, and Althea, who only desired that she do her own will always."
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Robin Hobb

#7. They say the definition of ambivalence is watching your mother-in-law drive over a cliff in your new Cadillac.

David Mamet

#8. And what if Miriam and I were never to be reconciled?

Mordecai Richler

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10. He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.

Lao-Tzu

#11. 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

#12. I tend to start at 9 o'clock in the morning and write until 3. Those are my best hours. They fit the other rhythms of the world. So I write for six hours, pretty much without any breaks.

Justin Cronin

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

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

Billy Graham

#19. You know what he thinks of Cowper and Scott;

Jane Austen

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

Bard Bloom

#21. 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

#22. The people in charge can always justify doing terrible things in the name of the greater good. A slaughter here, a little torture there. It becomes moral to do things that would be immoral if an ordinary individual did 'em.

Joe Hill

#23. I try not to be spectacular with the camera. I try to be a witness of what's going on.

Fede Alvarez

#24. 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

#25. The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.

John F. Kennedy

#26. Reading was like visiting distant friends.

Allegra Goodman

#27. Will: Have you ever seen what happens to someone with demon pox? First it lies dormant. One begins to turn yellow and green. Then the swelling sets in -
Jem: THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS DEMON POX.

Cassandra Clare

#28. Oh, mightiest wind,
wilt thou cease thy breathing in
and hold thy exhales?

Richelle E. Goodrich

#29. A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me.

David Bailey

#30. I don't rehash the past. It's my baggage. That's all. I accept things as they are.

Roman Polanski

#31. 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

#32. As African-Americans, that's what's being played fast and loose with, our citizenship. When you have the Trayvon Martins and the Michael Browns being shot and killed, it's because, on a certain level, there is a kind of mutability in the understanding of citizenship around the black body.

Claudia Rankine

#33. 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