friendship

"I'd rather die my way than live yours."

"The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne."

"In times of grief and sorrow I will hold you and rock you and take your grief and make it my own. When you cry I cry and when you hurt I hurt. And together we will try to hold back the floods to tears and despair and make it through the potholed street of life"

"Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they're fun, they do things together, they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom."

"I think it's important to have closure in any relationship that ends - from a romantic relationship to a friendship. You should always have a sense of clarity at the end and know why it began and why it ended. You need that in your life to move cleanly into your next phase."

"Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life."

"Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts."

"The part which American friendship played in helping us to win the freedom we enjoy in this part of Ireland has been gratefully recognized and acknowledged by our people."

"Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue."

"Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one."

"We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence."

"Faith is salted and peppered through everything at Christmas. And I love at least one night by the Christmas tree to sing and feel the quiet holiness of that time that's set apart to celebrate love, friendship, and God's gift of the Christ child."

"I got to sing with Placido Domingo... I got to sing with Aaron Neville, who is one of my favorites. Got to sing with Brian Wilson, one of the great high tenors. And Ricky Skaggs, a bluegrass tenor. I'm also proud of my musical friendship with Emmylou Harris."

"When I was working on my first novel, 'The Quilter's Apprentice,' I knew I wanted to write about friendship, especially women's friendship and how women use friendship to sustain themselves and nurture each other."

"Lovers have a right to betray you... friends don't."

"At the beginning of the new century, it is the common aspiration of the peoples of the two countries to deepen mutual understanding, enhance trust, develop friendship and strengthen cooperation."

"Friendship is the complete explanation of what a Cheetah Girl is - if you have that true friendship, you can conquer anything you want."

"Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world."

"Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity."

"No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth."