Quotes by Authors - Page 174

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
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
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
Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.
Virginia Woolf
Plant a seed of friendship reap a bouquet of happiness.
Lois L. Kaufman
Friends Make Life Bearable But I have certainty enough For I am sure of you.
Amelia Barr
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
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
Izaak Walton
Best friend my well-spring in the wilderness!
George Eliot
A true friend is the best possession.
Anonymous
Oh Dear! How unfortunate I am not to have anyone to weep with!
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal
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 allay of our sorrows the ease of our passions the discharge of our oppression the sanctuary of our calamities the counselor of our doubts the clarity of our minds the emission of our thoughts the exercise and improvement of what we dedicate.
Jeremy Taylor
There is no physician like a true friend.
Anonymous
A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
Henry David Thoreau
A cheer then for the noblest breast That fears not danger's post And like the lifeboat proves a friend When friends are wanted most.
Eliza Cook
To have a good friend is one of the highest delights of life to be a good friend is one of the noblest and most difficult undertakings.
Anonymous
Can you understand how cruelly I feel the lack of friends who will believe in me a bit?
D.H. Lawrence
That is the best-to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
Gloria Vanderbilt
Friendship is the bread of the heart.
Mary Russell Mitford
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
The great difference between voyages rests not in ships but in the people you meet on them.
Amelia Barr
Love is like the wild-rose briar Friendship is like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose briar blooms But which will bloom most constantly?
Emily Brontë
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
Friendship has splendors that love knows not. It grows stronger when crossed whereas obstacles kill love. Friendship resists time which wearies and severs couples. It has heights unknown to love.
Mariama Bâ
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
A cheer then for the noble breast that fears not danger's post And like the lifeboat proves a friend When friends are wanted most.
Eliza Cook
A friend is never known till a man has need.
Anonymous
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
Richard Graves
Adversity not only draws people together but brings forth that beautiful inward friendship.
Søren Kierkegaard
In time of great anxiety we can draw power from our friends. We should at such times however avoid friends who sympathize too deeply who give us pity rather than strength.
D. Lupton
True friendship is never serene.
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
Susan Ferrier
Forsake not an old friend for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.
Anonymous
A friend is one who dislikes the same people that you dislike.
Anonymous
Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries tliem.
Anonymous
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
Sydney Smith
When we hurt each other we should write it down in the sand so the winds of forgiveness can make it go away for good. When we help each other we should chisel it in stone lest we never forget the love of a friend.
Christian H. Godefroy
So long as we love we serve so long as we are loved by others I would almost say that we are indispensable and no man is useless while he has a friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions they pass no criticisms.
George Eliot