Quotes and Sayings About Old Friends
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About 70 percent of the district was new. It was a short amount of time to get to know hundreds and thousands of people. But with the help and support of old friends, we built a grassroots operation organically from the ground up.
-- Adam Kinzinger -
These songs are old friends I have entertained myself with when I'm washing the dishes, driving to the store and walking down the aisles. The ones that you sing when you're driving in the car and as a singer you always go back to them.
-- Al Jarreau -
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 -
The ball gave me prestige, gave me fame, gave me riches. Thank you, my old friend.
-- Alfredo Di Stefano -
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 -
Finding an old friend is like finding a lost treasure.
-- Anthony D. Williams -
So it was, my dear Watson, that at two o'clock today I found myself in my old armchair in my own old room, and only wishing that I could have seen my old friend Watson in the other chair which he has so often adorned. - Sherlock Holmes.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
A guitar is like an old friend that is there with me.
-- B. B. King -
What started as a whisper Slowly turned into a scream Searching for an answer Where the question is unseen I don't know where you came from And I don't know where you've gone Old friends become old strangers Between the darkness and the dawn
-- Ben Harper -
There's one thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die - their silence.
-- Ben Hecht -
Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.
-- Bernard Baruch -
Exercise is like an old friend: You may not be able to see that friend all the time, but you're not mad when you see them, you're happy, and you get right back into it.
-- Bethenny Frankel -
Friar Hugo, old friend, brace yourself. I am the bearer of tragic news!" Alarm spread across Hugo's pudgy features. "Tell me, Jess. What dreadful thing has happened?" Jess spoke haltingly in a broken voice. "I fear that Cluny has tore up one of your oldest and most venerable dishrags. Alas, Redwall will never see it wipe another plate.
-- Brian Jacques -
When I go out with my 16-year-old friends, I don't wear Chanel.
-- Bridget Hall -
I have gotten so used to melancholia that I greet it like an old friend.
-- Charles Bukowski -
Better is old wine than new, and old friends like-wise.
-- Charles Kingsley -
Biking through New York's boroughs in 2005, I thought about some old friends, Joe and Eileen Bailey. Though they are imaginary, I frequently talk to them.
-- Charles Schumer -
The life of a model isn't easy. But I try to keep a good head on my shoulders by staying close to my family and old friends. They're my support system.
-- Constance Jablonski -
When death finally comes you will welcome it like an old friend, being aware of how dreamlike and impermanent the pheneomenal world really is.
-- Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche -
... old clothes, old friends, old books. One needs constants in a traveling life.
-- Dorothy Gilman -
I do reread, kind of obsessively, partly for the surprise of how the same book reads at a different point in life, and partly to have the sense of returning to an old friend.
-- Elizabeth Strout -
(He) felt lost and alone without his old friend, though he barely recognized him anymore. He wondered if they could ever be friends again.
-- Erin Hunter -
It's fine to have social media that connects us with old friends, but we need tools that help us discover new people as well.
-- Ethan Zuckerman -
You always fed strays and bent down to talk to the dogs you met on the street, looking straight into their eyes as if they were old friends. (Maybe they are, you said. From another life.) You liked to go to the pound and look at them. You tried to send them messages of comfort. I couldn’t go because I started crying the one time I tried. All those eyes and the barks like sobs.
-- Francesca Lia Block -
Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
-- Francis Bacon -
In this play we're dealing with relative truths - who's lying, who's telling the truth. But underneath that, Ed and I have hit this deeper level of intimacy between old friends that comes out in the play.
-- Fred Ward -
Old friends, we say, are best, when some sudden disillusionment shakes our faith in a new comrade.
-- Gelett Burgess -
How unspeakably the lengthening of memories in common endears our old friends!
-- George Eliot
