Quotes by American Authors - Page 169

The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We flatter those we scarcely know We please the fleeting guest And deal full many a thoughtless blow To those who love us best.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The art of friendship has been little cultivated in our society.
Robert J. Havighurst
One can find traces of every life in each life.
Susan Griffin
The family is the building block for whatever solidarity there is in society.
Jill Ruckelshaus
Families will not be broken. Curse and expel them send their children wandering drown them in floods and fires and old women will make songs of all these sorrows and sit in the porches and sing them on mild evenings.
Marilynne Robinson
The family unit plays a critical role in our society and in the training of the generation to come.
Sandra Day O'Connor
[Families] are made to make you forget yourself occasionally so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed.
Anaïs Nin
Old as she was she still missed her daddy sometimes.
Gloria Naylor
Call it a clan call it a network call it a tribe call it a family: Whatever you call it whoever you are you need one.
Jane Howard
Is solace anywhere more comforting than in the arms of sisters?
Alice Walker
Where there is lasting love there is a family.
Shere Hite
The desire to be and have a sister is a primitive and profound one that may have everything or nothing to do with the family a woman is born to. It is a desire to know and be known by someone who shares blood and body history and dreams.
Elizabeth Fishel
Sisters define their rivalry in terms of competition for the gold cup of parental love. It is never perceived as a cup which runneth over rather a finite vessel from which the more one sister drinks the less is left over for the others.
Elizabeth Fishel
Both within the family and without our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to become.
Elizabeth Fishel
[My father] was generous with his affection given to great awkward engulfing hugs and I can remember so clearly the smell of his hugs all starched shirt tobacco Old Spice and Cutty Sark. Sometimes I think I've never been properly hugged since.
Linda Ellerbee
He [Winston Churchill] has a future and I have a past so we should be all right.
Jennie Jerome Churchill
All love that has not friendship for its base Is like a mansion built upon the sand.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Jimmy and I were always partners.
Rosalynn Carter
I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life. It's a cliche and we use it too much but I think for a husband and wife the way to stay close is to do things together and share.
Barbara Bush
Friends are the family we choose for ourselves.
Edna Buchanan
If ever two were one then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife then thee.
Anne Bradstreet
You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.
Erma Bombeck
The family. We are a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste coveting one another's desserts hiding shampoo locking each other out of our rooms inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant loving laughing defending and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together.
Erma Bombeck
No greater burden can be born by an individual than to know none who cares or understands.
Arthur H. Stainback
The support of one's personality is friends. A part of one's self and a real foundation and existence.
Katharine Butler Hathaway
My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges and enabled me to walk serene and happy in the shadow cast by my deprivation.
Helen Keller
Friends are the sunshine of life.
John Hay
Tis the human touch in the world that counts-the touch of your hand and mine-Which means far more to the sinking heart than shelter or bread or wine For shelter is gone when the night is o'er and bread lasts only a day But the touch of the hand and the sound of the voice Live on in the soul always.
Spencer M. Free
One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
Gail Godwin
Each friend represents a world in us a world possibly not born until they arrive and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
Anaïs Nin
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
Woodrow Wilson
We take care of our health we lay up money we make our roof tight and our clothing sufficient but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting in the best property of all-friends.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
Henry David Thoreau
If I don't have friends then I ain't nothing.
Billie Holiday
My only sketch profile of heaven is a large blue sky and larger than the biggest I have seen in June-and in it are my friends-every one of them.
Emily Dickinson
The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bull pen.
Bob Lemon
That is the best-to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
Gloria Vanderbilt
Though Love be deeper Friendship is more wide.
Corinne Roosevelt Robinson
It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble and then not worth much after you get it.
Zora Neale Hurston
Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.
Willa Cather
And we find at the end of a perfect day The soul of a friend we've made.
Carrie Jacobs Bond
It's the friends you can call up at 4:00 a.m. that matter.
Marlene Dietrich
There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.
Katharine Butler Hathaway
Grief can take care of itself but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
Mark Twain
True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
Edna Buchanan
That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.
Lisa Alther
It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
Marlene Dietrich
There are three faithful friends: an old wife an old dog and ready money.
Benjamin Franklin
I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end when I come to lay down the reins of Ewer I have lost every other friend on earth I shall at st have one friend left and that friend shall be down inside of me.
Abraham Lincoln
Winning has always meant much to me but winning ftiends has meant the most.
Babe Didrikson Zaharias
Platonic Love is a fool's name for the affection between a disability and a frost.
Ambrose Bierce
Friendship marks a life even more deeply rhan love. Love risks degenerating into obsession friendship is never anything but sharing.
Elie Wiesel
Can miles truly separate you from friends. ... If you want to be with someone you love aren't you already there?
Richard Bach
All you'll get from strangers is surface pleasantry or indifference. Only someone who loves you will criticize you.
Judith Crist
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
Elbert Hubbard
The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.
Barbara Kingsolver
It is better not to say "lend." There is only giving.
Pearl S. Buck
The richest man in the world is not the one who still has the first dollar he ever earned. It's the man who still has his best friend.
Martha Mason
The richer your friends the more they will cost you.
Elizabeth Marbury