Friend Quotes

If anyone has seen success and failure on a global stage, it's my friend Steve Forbes.

~ Peter Diamandis

My friend was on dialysis for six years before he got a new kidney. I was on dialysis for eight months. I'm almost not even the typical person who has kidney failure.

~ Natalie Cole

Dad was a strict disciplinarian and would give us a wallop with a wooden spoon if we were out of order. But we really respected him - he didn't try to be our best friend.

~ Stephen Mangan

I once sang 'Summer Nights,' from 'Grease,' at a bar in Melbourne with John Travolta, who's a good friend of mine. He looked cool singing the part of Danny - sitting in an armchair, smoking a cigar - while I got stuck playing Sandy.

~ Hugh Jackman

I'm cool with Jay-Z. Jay-Z is genuinely my friend.

~ Drake

I had a couple of really cool friends when I was a kid, and we'd find cool music and movies and show them to each other. My friend Dennis had a copy of 'A Clockwork Orange' and he'd already seen it once, and he was like, 'We need to watch this.' I was sleeping over his house - and I think we were literally 15 - and we watched it.

~ Gerard Way

So much about 'Rookie' has been very organically familial among our contributors, among our readers. Yeah, if I interview someone like Lorde, who I do know outside of work - sometimes I'm just so happy; it's so cool that this is organically, effortlessly, the warm, supportive friend vibe that we want here.

~ Tavi Gevinson

The waste basket is the writer's best friend.

~ Isaac Bashevis Singer

The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.

~ Carl Sandburg

I hate to say it, but Christmas as a kid was always a moneymaking venture for me. I played trumpet, and a friend of mine who played trombone and a guy who played tuba, every Christmas we'd go out for three or four days beforehand and play Christmas carols on our horns.

~ John Tesh

If you're picking your best friend based on what kind of clothes she wears or how popular she is, chances are you aren't going to stay in touch after graduation.

~ Renee Olstead

The 'Aladdin' thing - that's not work; that's just fun. Three days in the recording studio going mad, then the animators do all the work. Not a bad way to cash a large check, my friend.

~ Robin Williams

I have smelled some very famous and undoubtedly sexy boys. And sometimes, as cute as they are, I'd rather have them as a friend - just because of the way they smell!

~ Rachel Nichols

Few would argue that Richard Dawkins is the world's most famous atheist, especially now that his friend and rival for the title, Christopher Hitchens, has now gone to meet his Maker.

~ Ray Comfort

The good man is the friend of all living things.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

Among the great names that adorn the roll of Nobel prize-winners in Medicine is that of Otto Meyerhof, my admired teacher and friend, to whose inspiration, guidance and encouragement I owe so very much.

~ Severo Ochoa

Whether it's as the hero of an adventure story, as teacher and friend, as icon on watch, shirt or hat - everyone knows Mickey Mouse.

~ Warren Spector

I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend.

~ Henry Rollins

I have a teacher friend who gets nervous when there's $200 in her account. But at least she knows that in a week, she'll get another paycheck. I have no idea.

~ Gaby Hoffmann

A few years back, when my style was 'punk grandma,' I picked up an amazing pair of sandals - orthopaedic ones, with really thick soles. I've given them away to a friend now, because these days my look is more '1980s substitute teacher gone wild.'

~ Beth Ditto

I was never one to go up to someone as a five- or six-year-old and say, 'Hello, my name's Paul, will you be my friend?' But I found if I did an impression of the PE teacher or whatever and people laughed, then they did like me, and so then they started talking to me, rather than me making the initial overture and then maybe being rebuffed.

~ Paul Merton

I was 20 years old, working as a roofer and a telemarketer and driving a taxi, just barely getting by. A friend of a friend suggested I try acting. I was like, 'Why? What am I going to do? Community theater?' But I took a class, and the teacher thought that I had potential, so I moved to Vancouver and started auditioning.

~ Cory Monteith

A friend of mine said, no matter what I do I always look like an English teacher. She actually said, you still look like a Campbell's Soup kid.

~ Kate Clinton

I was struck by Suu Kyi's warmth and generosity. No matter how petite she looks, she exudes amazing strength. More than anything else, I felt like I already knew her, like she was an old friend, because I'd been watching her so intently, and she was exactly what I had figured she would be.

~ Michelle Yeoh

I've been accused of riding roughshod over others' emotions, and I admit, when I feel a friend is being over-indulgent, my patience is in short supply.

~ Mariella Frostrup

A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.

~ Gustave Flaubert

I am deeply saddened by the death of my dear friend, Dudley Moore.

~ Liza Minnelli

I think, in real life, when we're facing death - that is, when we come out on the other side of it, whether it's death of a friend or a family member - you come out on the other side of the mourning cherishing your life that much more.

~ Tony Diterlizzi

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

~ John Singer Sargent

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.

~ Richard Bach

Everything is about looking for happiness and God. That was a sentiment shared by my dear friend Ronald Reagan.

~ Mickey Rooney

There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

Michael is not only my friend, he's my family.

~ Emmanuel Lewis

Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful.

~ Ian Mckellen

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge - that is everywhere.

~ Hermann Hesse

If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him... the people who give you their food give you their heart.

~ César Chávez

Religion is more like response to a friend than it is like obedience to an expert.

~ Austin Farrer

A friend is what the heart needs all the time.

~ Henry Van Dyke

Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time.

~ Georgia O'keeffe