The Quote

Category 2: Family and Friendship

Category 2: Family and Friendship

The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.

Charles Kuralt

Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.

David Ogden Stiers

I'll never stop dreaming that one day we can be a real family, together, all of us laughing and talking, loving and understanding, not looking at the past but only to the future.

LaToya Jackson

A man should never neglect his family for business.

Walt Disney

Family is the most important thing in the world.

Princess Diana

People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.

Doug Coupland

All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it.

Chaim Potok

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

George Santayana

I come from that society and there is a common thread, specifically family values - the idea that you do anything for your family, and the unconditional love for one's children.

Ednita Nazario

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.

Robert Frost

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

Albert Camus

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

Elbert Hubbard

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

Buddha

Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

Muhammad Ali

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.                                                                                                Oprah Winfrey

A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.

Robert Hall

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.

Henri Nouwen

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.

Pam Brown

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

Albert Schweitzer

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Leo Buscaglia

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Robert Brault

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

George Washington

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

C. S. Lewis

A friend to all is a friend to none.

Aristotle

The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.

Henri Nouwen

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

Thomas Jefferson

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

Margaret Walker

True friends stab you in the front.

Oscar Wilde

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

Khalil Gibran

A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away.

Bil Keane