Old Friends Quotes - Page 11

• Many people consider me an old friend.

  Shirley Temple

  People

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• How our old friend [Michelangelo] of the Sistine would have loved to photograph his workers, perched on the fragile planks. Dali was right to say Leonardo only worked from photographs.

  Jean Cocteau

  Photograph, Leonardo, Workers

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• ... I just feel impotent - I don't know which way to start or turn. You know what they say about a prophet in one's own country - well - in a way it works for me too: you see - this might be called my home town - well of all the old friends and acquaintances not one takes me seriously as a photographer - not one has asked me to show my work... (On returning to San Francisco)

  Tina Modotti

  Country, Home, San Francisco

  Tina Modotti, Amy Rule (1986). “The Letters from Tina Modotti to Edward Weston”

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• The great renunciation of old age as it prepared for death, wraps itself up in its chrysalis, which may be observed at the end of lives that are at all prolonged, even in old lovers who have lived for one another, in old friends bound by the closest ties of mutual sympathy, who, after a certain year, cease to make the necessary journey or even to cross the street to see one another, cease to correspond, and know that they will communicate no more in this world.

  Marcel Proust

  Journey, Years, Ties

  Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume I: Swann's Way (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.212, Modern Library

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• When people are dying, they call their old enemies and try to forgive them and try to be forgiven by them. They call their old friends and affirm their love for them, as well as detach themselves from them, and they try to get into as free a space as they can so they're really ready to go. They give away all their possessions and are as generous as possible. They give up old hatreds and grudges, and that's a wise intuitive thing, because it's much freer to live like that.

  Robert Thurman

  Wise, Giving Up, Space

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• I got really paranoid, burning every song onto three CDs and hiding them in various places around the house just in case I got burgled and there was, y'know, a fire in my bedroom. I told friends where I was hiding them in case I was killed.

  Max Tundra

  Song, Cds, Fire

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• When I talk to a few thousand people, I just feel I am talking to an old friend. Like that. I never felt some kind of distance, so therefore, I feel one source of happiness. In that kind of atmosphere, my experience seems some benefit to some people.

  Dalai Lama

  Distance, Talking, People

  Source: www.opti-mystical.com

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• I know somewhat about Kate [Moss who featured in the Vogue spread]. I always thought that Kate's look had come from my old friend Siobhan Liddell and some of her friends because they dressed like that about ten years ago. Unconsciously, and right after that, that whole look sort of came out.

  Nan Goldin

  Years, Moss, Looks

  Source: foggysapphires.wordpress.com

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• How enriched life is by friends! Good friends, new friends, old friends, feathered friends, feline friends, friends of friends.

  Laurel Burch

  Good Friend, New Friends, Life Is

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• The way to make a true friend is to be one. Friendship implies loyalty, esteem, cordiality, sympathy, affection, readiness to aid, to help, to stick, to fight for, if need be. ... Radiate friendship and it will return sevenfold.

  B. C. Forbes

  Friendship, Loyalty, True Friend

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• I have many, many old friends, and I always think that it`s important, when you get into politics, to have friends you had before you were in politics and to understand what`s on their minds.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, Mind, Important

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• People's lives change. To keep all your old friends is like keeping all your old clothes -- pretty soon your closet is so jammed and everything so crushed you can't find anything to wear. Help these friends when they need you; bless the years and happy times when you meant a lot to each other, but try not to have the guilts if new people mean more to you now.

  Helen Gurley Brown

  Friendship, Life Changing, Mean

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• I love words but I don't like strange ones. You don't understand them and they don't understand you. Old words is like old friends, you know 'em the minute you see 'em.

  Will Rogers

  Writing, Ems, Strange

  Will Rogers, James Smallwood, Steven K. Gragert (1982). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Hoover years, 1929-1931”

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• You were worth it, old friend, and a thousand times over.

  Wilson Rawls

  Thousand, Worth It

  Wilson Rawls (2011). “Where the Red Fern Grows”, p.235, Laurel Leaf

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• Some possessions are like old friends, and you never want to abandon an old friend.

  Nina Campbell

  Want, Possession, Abandon

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• Life is change, to cease to change is to cease to live; yet if you may shed a tear beside the death-bed of an old friend, let not your heart be silent on the dissolving of a faith.

  James Anthony Froude

  Heart, Tears, Bed

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The Nemesis of Faith”, p.34

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• Welcome, my old friend, Welcome to a foreign fireside.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Welcome

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1850). “Poems lyrical and dramatic, including “The seaside and the fireside” ... Second edition”, p.321

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• My dear old friend King George V told me he would never have died but for that vile doctor, Lord Dawson of Penn.

  Margot Asquith

  Kings, Doctors, Lord

  Margot Asquith (1963). “The Autobiography of Margot Asquith: Vol. two”

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• There [is] a feeling of recognition, as of meeting an old friend, which comes to us all in the face of great artistic experiences. I had the same experience when I first heard an English folksong, when I first saw Michelangelo's Day and Night, when I suddenly came upon Stonehenge or had my first sight of New York City - the intuition that I had been there already.

  Ralph Vaughan Williams

  New York, Night, Sight

  "R.V.W.: A Biography of Ralph Vaughan Williams". Book by Ursula Vaughan Williams, p. 30, "Musical Autobiography" (1950), 1964.

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• Old friends, like old shoes, are comfortable. But old shoes, unlike old friends, tend not to be supportive: it is easier to stumble and sprain an ankle while wearing a pair of old shoes than it is in new shoes, with their less yielding leather.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  New Shoes, Supportive, Ankles

  Alexander McCall Smith (2010). “The Unbearable Lightness of Scones”, p.37, Anchor

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• What find you better or more honourable than age? Take the preheminence of it in everything, in an old friend, in old wine, in an old pedigree.

  Shackerley Marmion

  Wine, Age, Pedigree

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations". Book by John Bartlett, 10th edition, 1919.

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• A proper record shop reminds us why we got into this in the first place - a place to be reminded of old friends, still in their spots on the shelves, a source of unexpected magic and lucid memories - a place that reminds us that music is more than dumb file sharing and the management of dead data by faceless sociopathic corporations, but a storehouse of dreams, both possible and impossible.

  Max Richter

  Dream, Memories, Data

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• Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.

  George Eliot

  Friends, Yesterday, Forever

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• Failure can get to be a rather comfortable old friend.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Failure, Comfortable

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.12, BookBaby

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• The soil of friendship is worn out with constant use. Habit may still attach us to each other, but we feel ourselves fettered by it. Old friends might be compared to old married people without the tie of children.

  William Hazlitt

  Friendship, Children, Ties

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.493

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