Julia Child Quotes

The people in your life are important. Meaningful relationships with those people are very important.

Nothing is more important to me than my family, my faith, and my friends.

I love bringing people together. I think that the environment is so important in terms of what kind of relationships you might be able to create, how people get to know each other.

All I have are the people.

It's people, not possessions, that make home for me. It's not that I get much time to entertain, or any of that, what with the television production schedule and, now, singing concerts all around the country and making recordings.

What I've always valued is people.

Music is my passion, it's my fun - but what's really important are the people I build a family with. That comes first.

Love is only chatter, friends are all that matter.

The third discipline is community. Whom do you choose as your companions? Whom do you choose to be friends with, to live with? Are they people who love you, and care for you, and nurture you?

It is love and friendship, the sanctity and celebration of our relationships, that not only support a good life, but create one. Through friendships, we spark and inspire one another's ambitions.

Family does not necessarily mean blood relatives but often a description of a community, organisation or nation.

The people God put in your life are not there by accident. Don’t get so busy that you just give them your leftover time.

It's the oldest, corniest piece of advice in the world but it still works. The strongest networks are built on friendship. Be a friend not only to the people in your network, but to the people who matter the most to the people in your network.

Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff.

Life's deepest meaning is not found in accomplishments , but in relationships

We might not know we are seeking people who best enrich our lives, but somehow on a deep subconscious level we absolutely are. Whether the bond is temporary or permanent, whether it succeeds or fails, fate is simply a configuration of choices that combine with others to shape the relationships that surround us. We cannot choose our family, but we can choose our friends, and we sometimes, before we even meet them.

Friendship, "the wine of life," should, like a well-stocked cellar, be continually renewed.

For all of us, whether we walk old paths or blaze new trails, friends remain important.

I do have a lot of time for people in my life, and friendship is a very important subject for me. I think I'm unusual among the writers I know in that respect.

You can make a new friend but you can't make an old one.

The only things that are really permanent are love, family, friendship, and that is a lesson. At the end of the day, that's really what it boils down to. The rest of it is just stuff.

Family is more than DNA, more than who we used to be, more than we can imagine we will become.

I think the themes of belonging and parentage and love are obviously universal.

I definitely want to embrace the relationships I have with the people I love.

I moved to L.A., and people said that I would never find work, that I would never find good friends, and I feel like I was fortunate enough to find the work, but it wouldn't mean anything unless I had a group of people who could appreciate it.