She would have thrived as a grandmother. I know how much she would have contributed to their lives, and I am sad they will miss out on that.
Angelina JolieWalking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
Helen KellerOVOXO will always be there.
The WeekndIt is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment’s grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one’s life.
ChanakyaFriendship is essentially a partnership.
AristotleIn the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Martin Luther King, Jr.I gave my archive to Emory University because there’s a really dear friend who teaches there, Rudolph Byrd, and he’s the editor.
Alice WalkerMy dear friend, clear your mind of cant.
Samuel JohnsonThe language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David ThoreauOne never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.
Hermann HessePerhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.
Maya AngelouLet there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
Khalil GibranWe cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.
Henry KissingerMeeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.
Winston ChurchillPlato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
Isaac NewtonI think that if all kids aspire to reach a point where they could feed themselves and a few of their friends, this would be good for the world surely.
Anthony BourdainBe slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
Benjamin FranklinIf people wonder, yes, Hillary Clinton is my friend. She has been a friend to me and Barack and Malia and Sasha, and Bill and Chelsea have been embracing and supportive from the very day my husband took the oath of office.
Michelle ObamaWhy is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.
Mark TwainI have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted.
Jean-Paul SartreA friend is nothing but a known enemy.
Kurt CobainTime heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.
Blaise PascalIf I ever had twins, I’d use one for parts.
Steven WrightHaving nothing, nothing can he lose.
William ShakespeareCome, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.
William ShakespeareLet me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel’s. It will be a strong friend of Israel’s under a McCain administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel’s under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change.
Barack ObamaYou can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Dale CarnegieA friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
Abraham LincolnI never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
Thomas JeffersonI don’t think my parents liked me. They put a live teddy bear in my crib.
Woody AllenWe of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.
George OrwellIt is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
ConfuciusEvery man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
Marcus Tullius CiceroFriendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
George WashingtonShared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
Friedrich NietzscheI remember when I was in high school I didn’t have a new dress for each special occasion. The girls would bring the fact to my attention, not always too delicately. The boys, however, never bothered with the subject. They were my friends, not because of the size of my wardrobe but because they liked me.
Marilyn MonroeIf you cry over a guy, then your friends can’t date him. It can’t even be considered.
Taylor SwiftWhen Clark Gable died, I cried for 2 days straight. I couldn’t eat or sleep.
Marilyn MonroeIt may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.
Elbert HubbardSocial media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky.
Brene BrownI made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered.
Alice WalkerA man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI hate to see anybody sink. I hate to see anybody lose their dream, lose their home, something like that.
Clint EastwoodMisfortune shows those who are not really friends.
AristotleI never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it’s OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.
Karl LagerfeldPrime Minister Netanyahu has, as Minister Livni knows, has been my friend for over 30 years. We drive each other crazy. But he has truly been a personal friend for well over 30 years. He acknowledged this.
Joe BidenThere is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
Edgar Allan PoeWhen you’re supposed to be close and friends in the film, the moment you’re talking as friends off the set, it makes it that much better when you’re filming.
Kevin HartTrue friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
Henry David ThoreauWe make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
Gilbert K. ChestertonIt pays to know the enemy – not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.
Margaret ThatcherMe and my dad are friends. We’re cool. I’ll never be disappointed again, because I don’t expect anything anymore from him. I just let him exist, and that’s how we get along.
DrakeGod tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the money, things get hard, they get weak and quit going to church. Quit serving God like they did.
Muhammad AliI’m not looking to get away from anything. I like what I’ve done. I like what I get to do and I enjoy working with my friends. I loved those movies, but this is incredible.
Adam SandlerI don’t have many friends; I’m very much a loner. As a child I was very isolated, and I’ve never been really close to anyone.
Anthony HopkinsIt is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI married my best friend that happens to be a girl.
Kevin GatesEverywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaThere are three faithful friends – an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
Benjamin FranklinOne friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
Henry Adams