Life Celebration Quotes
Significant Others, Partners & Friendship
Philosophical Insights on Friendship
Audrey Hepburn
True friends are families which you can select.
Carmen Electra
My mom was amazing. She believed in me and we were best friends.
Charles Kuralt
The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.
Chris Ware
I prefer to imagine that my wife, a few friends, and occasionally my mom are the only ones who read what I do, though I realize that this is somewhat unrealistic.
Christina Aguilera
Thankfully, I have my mom and a small group of close friends who are there for me 24/7 and whom I can trust and depend on.
Christina Rossetti
For there is no friend like a sister. In calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, To fetch one if one goes astray,To lift one if one totters down, To strengthen whilst one stands
Delta Goodrem
When I do get the chance I just love to hang around at home with friends and family.
Donal Logue
It was all that stuff about taking your parents' car when you're 13, sneaking booze into rock shows and ditching school with your friends. I could relate to that as a former teenager, rather than as a present parent.
Emma Roberts
I grew up with just my mom. She and I were like best friends. She's a very independent woman and I admire that about her. In my life, I've tried to be like that. To be okay with being on my own and being independent.
Epicurus
Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.
Euripides
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
Frank Sinatra
I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family - and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
Why not keep this resource at your fingertips?
Harper Lee
You can choose your friends but you sho' can't choose your family, an' they're still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge 'em or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don't.
Heath Ledger
Anyone that has a job that takes them away from home, I think, can understand the difficulties in maintaining consistency, not only with your family and those you love but with your friends.
Hoda Kotb
To this day, my mom's unsinkable spirit is an inspiration to me. For nearly thirty years, she's worked at the Library of Congress. Everyone knows Sameha simply as 'Sami.' Along with 500 miles of shelved books, her closest friendships are cataloged in that library. They are as much the value of work to my mom as is the work itself.
Homer
For a friend with an understanding heart is worth no less than a brother.
There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
Ioan Gruffudd
As long as you understand that you find happiness through family, friends and love, then money is just a nice bonus.
Jennifer Ellison
Going home and spending time with your family and your real friends keeps you grounded.
Jennifer Niven
Dear friend, You are not a freak. You are wanted. You are necessary. You are the only you there is. Don’t be afraid to leave the castle. It’s a great big world out there. Love, a fellow reader.
Jenny Han
Best friends are important. They're the closest thing to a sister you'll ever have.
Jim Butcher
I don't care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching - they are your family.
Kelly Clarkson
My friends and family are my support system. They tell me what I need to hear, not what I want to hear and they are there for me in the good and bad times. Without them I have no idea where I would be and I know that their love for me is what's keeping my head above the water.
LeBron James
Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That's what's important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.
Lemony Snicket
It is a sad truth in life that when someone has lost a loved one, friends sometimes avoid the person, just when the presence of friends is most needed.
Lisa Schroeder
Friends will keep us happy.Our family keeps us warm.We’ll party through the good times and hold tight through the storms.
Marlo Thomas
When I was growing up, my mother was always a friend to my siblings and me (in addition to being all the other things a mom is), and I was always grateful for that because I knew she was someone I could talk to and joke with, and argue with and that nothing would ever harm that friendship.
Mercedes Lackey
The great love is gone. There are still little loves - friend to friend, brother to sister, student to teacher. Will you deny yourself comfort at the hearthfire of a cottage because you may no longer sit by the fireplace of a palace? Will you deny yourself to those who reach out to you in hopes of warming themselves at your hearthfire?
Mia Sheridan
Friends are the family you get to choose for yourself.
Taylor Swift
My mom and I have always been really close. She's always been the friend that was always there. There were times when, in middle school and junior high, I didn't have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always.
Tiger Woods
My dad was my best friend and greatest role model. He was an amazing dad, coach, mentor, soldier, husband and friend.
Tim Allen
Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they're fun, they do things together, they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom.
Trenton Lee Stewart
You must remember, family is often born of blood, but it doesn't depend on blood. Nor is it exclusive of friendship. Family members can be your best friends, you know. And best friends, whether or not they are related to you, can be your family.
Washington Irving
A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.
Willa Cather
It's all very well to tell us to forgive our enemies; our enemies can never hurt us very much. But oh, what about forgiving our friends?
Yo-Yo Ma
I love grocery shopping when I'm home. That's what makes me feel totally normal. I love both the idea of home as in being with my family and friends, and also the idea of exploration. I think those two are probably my great interests.
