Quotes about Friendship

“You can't build anything with a flimsy foundation. Friendship is the foundation.”

“The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well.”

“I've got many close friends, but there's an awful lot about friendship that is not demonstrative in my case.”

“I know Donald Trump. I've met him; I know his family. I have love and friendship and affection for his family members. But I'm going to work very hard to ensure that he is not our president.”

“I have two or three guys that I'm really close to. We have a great friendship, and I think that helps our songwriting relationship. It's hard to start... with new people and cover the ground that I've covered with those guys.”

“We were bringing Wham! to a close, but we weren't bringing our friendship to a close.”

“Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.”

“I have great friends in film industry but professionalism and friendship are two different cups of tea.”

“Since the Korean War, U.S. and South Korea have established an enduring friendship with shared interests, such as denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula, combating aggression abroad and developing our economies.”

“How delightful to find a friend in everyone.”

“Friendship to me is sacred.”

“I experience for the American officers and soldiers that friendship which arises from having shared with them for a length of time dangers, sufferings, and both good and evil fortune.”

“Our philosophy precedes from the belief that sport is an inalienable part of the educational process and a factor for promoting peace, friendship, cooperation and understanding among peoples.”

“But I think 'Love, Actually' has a very realistic view of human nature in line with the latest scientific evidence. The opening scene, where Hugh Grant's character talks about the arrivals gate at Heathrow, is about friendship and connection, it's about who we really are as a species.”

“I suppose, the natural outgrowth about writing about two friends, it becomes about their friendship, and the complexities of it, and the way personality plays off each other, and what they each like to do, separately and together.”

“On 'I'm A Celebrity' it's important to have chemistry and to have a friendship as a starting point you can grow from.”

“I want to know what it is to build the foundation of the friendship for real, to have my best friend and not because we're just intimate, but because we're mentally intimate. So I'm waiting for that person to come into my life.”

“Love comes in all different shapes and forms - from friendship and sisters and mums - and as I've got older, I've definitely learned that some of my happiest times have been when I've been on my own.”

“Our first conversation went like: 'So, what do you do in the Philippines for fun?' 'Well, I like to rap and breakdance.' And Will was like, 'What?? Me too!' That sparked our friendship and from then on, we were inseparable.”

“Friendship is a difficult, dangerous job. It is also (though we rarely admit it) extremely exhausting.”

“I am thrilled to receive the Sondheim Award from the wonderful Signature Theatre. I have already received the invaluable gift of over twenty-five years of collaboration and friendship with Steve. Now I get to have his award, too!”