Old Friends Quotes - Page 8

• There wasn't a funeral per se. I buried [Gilda Radner] 3 miles from her house that she had bought just shortly before we met. It was an old house, old colonial house, 1734. And there were just a few friends at the funeral, a nonsectarian cemetery. And an old friend of hers from junior high school or high school was the rabbi in town, and he performed the service.

  Gene Wilder

  School, House, Funeral

  Source: keranews.org

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• I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage, with my books, my family, and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post which any human power can give.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Family, Book, Food

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.64, Algora Publishing

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• At noon, on the Fourth of July, 1826, while the Liberty Bell was again sounding its old message to the people of Philadelphia, the soul of Thomas Jefferson passed on; and a few hours later John Adams entered into rest, with the name of his old friend upon his lips.

  Allen Johnson

  July, Names, Philadelphia

  Allen Johnson, Edward Samuel Corwin (1926). “The age of Jefferson and Marshall: Part 1: Jefferson and his colleagues, by Allen Johnson. Part 2: John Marshall and the Constitution, by Edward S. Crowin”

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• Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one’s life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to one’s side like an old friend through quiet ways; perhaps it revealed itself in seeming prose, until some sudden shaft of illumination flung athwart its pages betrayed the rhythm and the music, perhaps . . . perhaps . . . love unfolded naturally out of a beautiful friendship, as a golden-hearted rose slipping from its green sheath.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Love, Beautiful, Gay

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “CHRISTMAS & NEW YEAR™S TALES (Holiday Classics Series): Including Anne Shirley Series”, p.512, e-artnow

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• Kumiko and I felt something for each other from the beginning. It was not one of those strong, impulsive feelings that can hit two people like an electric shock when they first meet, but something quieter and gentler, like two tiny lights traveling in tandem through a vast darkness and drawing imperceptibly closer to each other as they go. As our meetings grew more frequent, I felt not so much that I had met someone new as that I had chanced upon a dear old friend.

  Haruki Murakami

  Strong, Two, Drawing

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle”, p.223, Random House

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• When [Bill Clinton] was running for president. I'll never forget this one. He was running in New Hampshire. He was not doing well. And he suddenly, over a weekend, rushed back to Little Rock to execute a guy who had killed a cop, but in the process, the policeman had shot him in the head and he was out of it. He didn't know today from tomorrow, good, evil, whatever. His lawyer begged - his lawyer was an old friend of Clinton.

  Nat Hentoff

  Running, Weekend, Rocks

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• The Michelle Obama that her old friends remember, that people knew in Chicago, she was a really incisive social critic. She knew how to drive an argument home. People liked her both in the workplace and socially because she was so frank.

  Jodi Kantor

  Home, People, Chicago

  "'The New York Times' Looks Ahead At Michelle Obama's Future". "All Things Considered" with Ari Shapiro, wssbradio.org. January 6, 2017.

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• When we started the show [Lonesome Dove], Suzanne De Passe - who had done the original miniseries and still owned the property and was turning it into this series - she brought in a lot of old friends - Diahann Carroll and Billy Dee Williams and Dennis Weaver. And we had an interesting collection off the top of these old seasoned actors. Billy Dee was lovely and iconic.

  Eric McCormack

  Interesting, Lonesome Dove, Lovely

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There's no friends like the old friends.

  James Joyce

  No Friends

  James Joyce (1967). “Dubliners”, p.14, Lulu.com

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• New friends can often have a better time together than old friends.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  New Friendship, Together, Tender Is The Night

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night”, p.18, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• We ran into lots of old friends. Friends from elementary school, junior high school, high school. Everyone had matured in their own way, and even as we stood face to face with them they seemed like people from dreams, sudden glimpses through the fences of our tangled memories. We smiled and waved, exchanged a few words, and then walked on in our separate directions.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Dream, Memories, School

  Banana Yoshimoto (2002). “Goodbye Tsugumi”, p.117, Grove Press

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• I privately say to you, old friend... please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of early-blooming parentheses: (((()))).

  J. D. Salinger

  Blooming, Bouquets, Accepting

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• I kept saying that I'd never live in L.A., and I didn't think I would. But that's where the work is, and I ended up making a lot of friends there, and my old friends moved out to Los Angeles too. And also, I think when you're famous, its hard to live in a small town.

  John Cusack

  Thinking, Lots Of Friends, Towns

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I say Gibson, we're old friends, and you're a fool if you take anything I say as an offense. Madam your wife and I didn't hit it off the only time I ever saw her. I won't say she was silly, but I think one of us was silly, and it wasn't me!

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Silly, Thinking, Wife

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• Graystripe pushed past Tigerheart and Whitestorm and crouched beside his old friend. "I would have taken your place if you had let me". His voice was hoarse with grief.

  Erin Hunter

  Grief, Taken, Past

  "The Last Hope". Book by Erin Hunter, 2012.

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• It's the worst part of seeing old friends: when your rose-colored memories become undone by reality.

  Brad Meltzer

  Memories, Past, Reality

  Brad Meltzer (2011). “The Inner Circle: The Culper Ring Trilogy 1”, p.239, Hachette UK

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• Now. Maybe you think it is arrogant or self centered, or ridiculous for me to believe that God bothered to wiggle a cheap bolt out of my new used car because he or she needed to keep me away for a few days until just the moment when my old friend most needed me to help her mother move into whatever comes next. Maybe nothing conscious helped to stall me so that I would be there when I could be most useful. Or maybe it did. I’ll never know for sure. And anyway, it doesn’t really matter.

  Anne Lamott

  Mother, Believe, Moving

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.102, Anchor

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• And then he greeted Death as an old friend, and went with him gladly, and, equals, they departed this life.

  J. K. Rowling

  Departed, This Life

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• Much has happened since last we met, Bartimaeus," he went on. "Do you remember how we parted?" "No." I did. "You set light to me, old friend. Struck a match and left me burning in a copse." The crow shifted uneasily beneath the cleaver."That's a gesture of endearment in some cultures. Some hug, some kiss, some set each other on fire in small patches of woodland.

  Jonathan Stroud

  Kissing, Fire, Light

  Jonathan Stroud (2005). “Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book Three: Ptolemy's Gate”, Disney-Hyperion

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• Sunsets are loved because they vanish. Flowers are loved because they go. The dogs of the field and the cats of the kitchen are loved because soon they must depart. These are not the sole reasons, but at the heart of morning welcomes and afternoon laughters is the promise of farewell. In the gray muzzle of an old dog we see goodbye. In the tired face of an old friend we read long journeys beyond returns.

  Ray Bradbury

  Goodbye, Dog, Morning

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• Old friend,' said Cadvan, filling another glass for himself and sniffing its rich smell. 'If we do not trust one another, we are already defeated.

  Alison Croggon

  Glasses, Smell, Rich

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• We do not tell old friends beneath our roof-tree that they are an offence to the eyesight.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Tree, Roof, Eyesight

  P. G. Wodehouse (2015). “Right Ho, Jeeves”, p.15, Booklassic

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• Thankfully,two old friends stood next to the throne. Horus wore full battle armor and a khopesh sword at his side.is kohl-lined eyes-one gold, one silver-were as piercing as ever. At his side stood Isis in a shimmering white gown, with wings of light. "Welcome," Horus said. "Um, hi," I said. "He has a way with words," Isis muttered, which made Sadie snort.

  Rick Riordan

  Eye, Light, Isis

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• It takes a long time to grow an old friend. Trust is built one single moment at a time.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Long, Moments, Grows

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• Abraham," he said. "I'm pleased to see you alive, old friend." "And I to see you dead.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Alive, Said, Abraham

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