Quotes about Friendship

“Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.”

“Taft was Roosevelt's handpicked successor. I didn't know how deep the friendship was between the two men until I read their almost four hundred letters, stretching back the to early '30s. It made me realize the heartbreak when they ruptured was much more than a political division.”

“Once you're on the pitch, you play for your team, and you want to win. During the year, you can play against friends - you can play against big friends and close friends - but once you are on the pitch, this friendship goes away, and you just focus on winning the game.”

“Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.”

“I think the way to keep a friendship is to respect that everybody is different.”

“Ray Bradbury is, for many reasons, the most influential writer in my life. Throughout our long friendship, Ray supplied not only his terrific stories but a grand model of what a writer could be, should be, and yet rarely is: brilliant and charming and accessible, willing to tolerate and to teach, happy to inspire but also to be inspired.”

“Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.”

“One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.”

“My favorite thing about 'Superbad' is it values male friendship.”

“Friends confront each other sometimes, and sometimes the friendship lasts, and sometimes it doesn't.”

“The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them.”

“Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.”

“The secret to a happy marriage is friendship and laughter. There's no alternative.”

“It's always really challenging trying to go from player to player/coach. You have a kind of friendship basis of relationship with all of your teammates, and now you go to this power position where you have to make decisions that might hurt people's feelings.”

“I served as the chairman of the India-Israel Parliamentary Friendship Group for three years, during which I also had the pleasure of visiting Israel.”

“Life is all about the friendship and the love and the music. It sounds silly, but it is. I want to have that experience as much as I can as an adult, not as a kid doing something that people are telling her she has to do. If anyone gets in my way, I'm going to get them out of my way.”

“On the relationship side, if you teach people to respond actively and constructively when someone they care about has a victory, it increases love and friendship and decreases the probability of depression.”

“I don't need to go onto Facebook and pretend to have friends I've never even met. To my mind, that kind of destroys the meaning of the word 'friend.' I take exception to that. Because I value and respect friendship.”

“The building of friendship, family, community and love is complicated. We are so isolated in this country, no longer supported by tribes and villages.”

“I like friendship.”

“Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.”