Quotes About Lifelong Friend

“A blessed companion is a book
a book that, fitly chosen, is a lifelong friend ... a book that, at a touch, pours its heart into your own.”

— Douglas William Jerrold

“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

“My lifelong friend and mentor Frank Barsalona is gone. And the music business as we knew it went with him.”

— Steven Van Zandt

“Work is something you can count on, a trusted, lifelong friend who never deserts you.”

— Margaret Bourke-White

“My first movie ever was 'Breaking Away.' I stumbled into an incredible part in a movie that was incredible to be a part of. Peter Yates, the director, became a lifelong friend. He sort of plucked me from obscurity and gave me a life.”

— Daniel Stern

“Sometimes when we least expect it, a small cross proves a lovely crown, a seemingly unimportant event becomes a lifelong experience, or a stranger becomes a friend”

— Louisa May Alcott

“I should have been struck down by the despair a young lover feels who has sworn lifelong fidelity, when a friend speaks to him of the other mistresses he will have in time to come.”

— Marcel Proust

“I come here tonight as a sister, blessed with a brother who is my mentor, my protector and my lifelong friend. And I come here as a wife who loves my husband and believes he will be an extraordinary president.”

— Michelle Obama

“I count myself really fortunate that I have some lifelong friends. The best thing about a friend is when you are being your own worst enemy a friend can help snap you out of it.”

— Amy Grant

“The first track is the end of a string. At the far end, a being is moving; a mystery, dropping a hint about itself every so many feet, telling you more about itself until you can almost see it, even before you come to it. The mystery reveals itself slowly, track by track, giving its genealogy early to coax you in. Further on, it will tell you the intimate details of its life and work, until you know the maker of the track like a lifelong friend.”

— Tom Brown, Jr.

“After an acquaintance of ten minutes many women will exchange confidences that a man would not reveal to a lifelong friend”

— Page Smith

“In a proper pub everyone there is potentially, if not a lifelong friend, at least someone to lure into an argument about foreign policy or the Red Sox.”

— Barbara Holland

“I claim to have been a lifelong and wholly disinterested friend of the British people.”

— Mahatma Gandhi