Seeing An Old Friend Quotes

#1. It's exciting to see things coming up again, plants that you've had twenty or thirty years. It's like seeing an old friend.

Tasha Tudor

#2. I really don't think of myself as a science writer.

James Gleick

#3. My shoes made an odd, clacking sound on the cobblestones of the courtyard, no matter how quietly I placed my feet. It was like being followed by the audible manifestation of my own shadow.

Sharon Shinn

#4. Just the usual formality before the chaos begins. Like playing the National Anthem before a Cubs game.

Berkeley Breathed

#5. The perfect party for me is having six to 12 people for dinner Friday or Saturday - good, fun friends, a lot of artists. I have a beautiful deck that looks over the canyon and Los Angeles on one side, so it's very pretty at night. It's a great opportunity to catch up with friends.

Sofia Milos

#6. I spent the next fifteen minutes convincing a crying werewolf that I wasn't going to hurt her. My life was getting too strange, even for me.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#7. Since the moment I saw her yesterday, I've been looking through the sparkly prism of exhilaration that comes with any old flame. But now, for the first time, I'm not just seeing what I want. I'm seeing what my friend needs.

Brad Meltzer

#8. It's only some rice and beans Captain. It's not like I'm giving you Cara's hand in marriage. - Richard

Terry Goodkind

#9. We all have the best laid plans for our children, and they go and ruin it all by growing up any way they want to. What the hell was it all for, then? (Real Life and Liars)

Kristina Riggle

#10. I hadn't realized how much I'd been needing to meet someone I might be able to say everything to.

Elizabeth Berg

#11. It was too nerve-wracking, a shocking spectacle, like seeing an old, calm friend go insane.

John Steinbeck

#12. I think of translations as passing some scholarly smell test: you can read the words of the translation and be reasonably sure of what the words are in the original.

Christian Wiman

#13. In this day and age if you've got the technology then it's vital to use that technology to track people down. The number on the database should be the maximum number you can get.

Tony Blair

#14. Never make a Christ out of your faith, nor think of as if it were the independent source of your salvation. Our life is found in "looking unto Jesus," not in looking to our own faith. By faith all things become possible to us; yet the power is not in the faith, but in the God upon whom faith relies.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#15. A sadness came over me. Returning to Kabul was like running into an old, forgotten friend and seeing that life hadn't been good to him, that he'd become homeless and destitute.

Khaled Hosseini

#16. A sensitive and honest-minded man, if he's concerned about evil and injustice in the world, will naturally begin his campaign against them by eliminating them at their nearest source: his own person. This task will take his entire life.

Fernando Pessoa