Enduring Bonds Quotes

Hearts set about finding other hearts the moment they are born, and between them, they weave nets so frightfully strong and tight that you end up bound forever in hopeless knots, even to the shadow of a beast you knew and loved long ago.

You just don't come across proper, deep, loyal friendships very easily later on in life.

Passion is temporary. It doesn't last long. Love is enduring. And that's the important thing. If we all had love in our lives to the degree that we should, it would be much happier.

When I was with Washington, Portland, Detroit, everybody still got love for me and I still got love for them.

When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy--that it is builded upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

From here it sounds great to say we'll all get together soon, but all I know is this: you can call me fifty days or fifty years from now and I'll be glad to see you.

I have got some fantastic friendships that I have had for a long, long time.

The best part about having true friends is that you can go months without seeing them and they'll still be there for you and act as if you'd never left!

One's family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way: One of these days I'll be over in a hospital somewhere with four walls around me. And the only people who'll be with me will be my family.

I think families are so great, because when you go home, no matter what you've accomplished in your life, you still are the person you were in sixth grade to them. You know, it never really changes.

Friendships ought to be immortal, hostilities mortal.

I have no talent for making new friends, but oh such genius for fidelity to old ones.

The friendship that can cease has never been real.

True friendships don't fade in Hollywood, as so many myths about show business would have you insist.

Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.

The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.

That kind of friendship doesn't just materialize at the end of the rainbow one morning in a soft-focus Hollywood haze. For it to last this long, and at such close quarters, some serious work had gone into it. Ask any ice-skater or ballet dancer or show jumper, anyone who lives by beautiful moving things: nothing takes as much work as effortlessness.

I've stayed friends with the boys I've known since I was 10.

You don't remember people you love by the wise things they say but the silly things they do.

Home is Where the Heart Is, Good Friends Are Hard to Find and Impossible to Forget. True Love is Born from Hard Times.

An old friend never can be found, and nature has provided that he cannot easily be lost.

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

I've got friends and my family and people who've been around for years and years and years. And those people are never in doubt: They'd be my friend whether I was a homeless dude, or I had a hit single.

I like my buddies from west Texas. I liked them when I was young; I liked them when I was middle-age; I liked them before I was President; and I like them during President; and I like them after President.

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.