Oldest Friends Quotes

• We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Friendship, True Friend, Real

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin (1988). “Among Friends: Who We Like, Why We Like Them, and What We Do with Them”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Wine, Age, Cases

  Cicero, Marcus Tullius Cicero, William Armistead Falconer (1923). “Cicero in twenty-nine volumes”

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• Some of my oldest friends are actors. But that's not the only place my friends come from.

  Beau Bridges

  Actors, My Friends

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

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• Peter Dinklage is one of my oldest friends from New York!

  Sam Trammell

  New York, Peter

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• I am deeply sensitive to the spell of nationalism. I can play about thirty Bohemian folk songs ... on my mouth-organ. My oldest friend, who is Czech and a patriot, cannot bear to hear me play them because he says I do it in such a schmalzy way, 'crying into the mouth organ'. I do not think I could have written the book on nationalism which I did write, were I not capable of crying, with the help of a little alcohol, over folk songs, which happen to be my favourite form of music.

  Ernest Gellner

  Song, Book, Writing

  "The Social Philosophy of Ernest Gellner". Book by John A. Hall, Ian Charles Jarvie, 1996.

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• When there's no one else look inside yourself -- like your oldest friend -- just trust the voice within -- then you'll find the strength that will guide your way. You'll learn to begin to trust the voice within.

  Christina Aguilera

  Voice, Looks, Way

  Song: The Voice Within, Album: Stripped, 2002

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• Ones oldest friend is the best.

  Plautus

  Friends

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• Bjork is one of my oldest friends so we share the friendship and common roots. That is what we build on when we work together.

  Sjon

  Roots, Working Together, Common

  Source: wwd.com

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• ...in the eyes of her oldest friends and colleagues and extended family, she wasn't a painfully thin seventy-five-year-old gray haired woman dying of cancer- she was a grade school class president, the young friend you gossiped with, a date or double date, someone to share a tent with in Darfur, a fellow election monitor in Bosnia, a mentor, a teacher you'd laughed within a classroom or a faculty lounge, or the board member you'd groaned with after a contentious meeting

  Will Schwalbe

  Teacher, Cancer, Eye

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• He knew. I could see it in his face. Look, if someone gets infected you've got between ten and twenty seconds to kill them. It might be your brother or your sister or your oldest friend. It makes no difference. And just so you know where you stand - if it happens to you, I'll do it in a heartbeat.

  Selena

  Brother, Halloween, Differences

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• The new is older than the old;
  And newest friend is oldest friend in this:
  That, waiting him, we longest grieved to miss
  One thing we sought.

  Helen Hunt Jackson

  Friends, Waiting, Missing

  Helen Hunt Jackson (1872). “Verses”, p.62

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• He was the strangest of strangers in that he was also her oldest friend.

  Ann Brashares

  Stranger

  Ann Brashares (2008). “The Last Summer (of You and Me)”, p.12, Penguin

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• I have lifelong friends. My oldest friend, Herbie, has been a friend since I was 9. I've had bonds for over 50 years with people.

  Larry King

  Ties, Years, People

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• The further you go in writing the more alone you are. Most of your best and oldest friends die. Others move away. You do not see them except rarely, but you write and have much the same contact with them as though you were together at the café in the old days. You exchange comic, sometimes cheerfully obscene and irresponsible letters, and it is almost as good as talking. But you are more alone because that is how you must work and the time to work is shorter all the time and if you waste it you feel you have committed a sin for which there is no forgiveness.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Moving, Writing, Talking

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• One of my oldest friends from Kansas, his sister was married to Ben [Folds] and wrote lyrics on his first couple of albums. I got to meet him the first time I saw them in concert at The Bottleneck, a great bar in Lawrence, Kansas. Then, he was the musical guest my first or second week as a writer on SNL. I was like, "I don't know if you remember me?" And he was like, "Oh my god, yeah!" He's a big photography fan, as am I.

  Jason Sudeikis

  Photography, Couple, Kansas

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• You're nice,' Cushie told him, squeezing his hand. 'And you're my oldest friend.' But they both must have known that you can know someone all your life and never quite be friends.

  John Irving

  Nice, Hands, Squeezing

  John Irving (1978). “The world according to Garp”, Pocket

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