200+ Best Quotes About Childhood Friendship

A circle is round, it has no end. That’s how long I want to be your friend. ~ Anonymous

A friend is a person whom you can love without judging and share your thoughts without fear. ~ Debasish Mridha MD

A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be. ~ Douglas Pagels

A friend is one who overlooks your broken fence and admires the flowers in your garden. ~ Anonymous

A good friend is a connection to life – a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world. ~ Lois Wyse

A good friend keeps your secrets for you. A best friend helps you keep your own secrets. ~ Lauren Oliver

A guitar is like an old friend that is there with me. ~ B. B. King

A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth. ~ Charles Darwin

A real friend is one who helps us to think our best thoughts, do our noblest deeds, and be our finest selves. ~ Elizabeth George

A simple friend thinks the friendship over when you argue. A real friend knows that it’s not a friendship until after you’ve fought. ~ Anonymous

A true friend cares like a mom, scolds like a dad, teases like a sister, irritates like a brother and loves more than a lover. ~ Anonymous

A true friend is like an umbrella that opens her heart to protect you on those rainy days. ~ Debasish Mridha

A true friend is someone who sees the pain in your eyes while everyone else believes the smile on your face. ~ Anonymous

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked. ~ Bernard Meltzer

A true friend is the one who knows more about you than yourself and still loves you. ~ Suzie

About 70 per cent 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

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

Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

All of my friends, I consider childhood friends because we met when I was probably 13, and I’m still friends with them today. It’s nice that I have that core group. ~ Rachel Bilson

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

An old friend will help you move. A good friend will help you move a dead body. ~ Jim Hayes

And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend’s success. ~ Oscar Wilde

Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~ Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to the task. ~ Diogenes

As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful. ~ Cicero

As soon as you get a certain amount of attention, then everybody kinda wants to start taking potshots at you. All your old friends that supported you don’t support you anymore. ~ John Zorn

Beautiful memories are like old friends. They may not always be on your mind, but they are forever in your heart. ~ Susan Gale

Best friends can turn a horrible day into one of the best days of your life. ~ Nathanael Richmond

Beta decay was… like a dear old friend. There would always be a special place in my heart reserved especially for it. ~ Chien-Shiung Wu

Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God’s greatest gifts. It involves many things but above all the power of going out of one’s self and appreciating what is noble and loving in another. ~ Thomas Hughes

Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes that constitutes growing older. ~ John Dos Passos

But now old friends are acting strange They shake their heads, they say I’ve changed Well something’s lost, but something’s gained In living every day. ~ Joni Mitchell

Certain faults are necessary for the existence of the individual. We would resent it if old friends were to get rid of certain peculiarities. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Change to me is like an old friend. It’s not my enemy anymore. And I know it will keep coming back to visit again and again to teach me something new. ~ Phyllis George

Cheese, wine, and a friend must be old to be good. ~ Reinhold Niebuhr

Cherish all your happy moments. They make a fine cushion for old age. ~ Christopher Morley

Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie. ~ Robert Brault

Childhood friends are the benchmark of our lives, no matter where we go, what we do. They will always come by and take you to the place where you belong. ~ Burhan Din Wani

Childhood is that wonderful time of life when all you need to do to lose weight is take a bath. ~ Richard Zera

Don’t expect your friend to be a perfect person but, help your friend to become a perfect person that’s true friendship. ~ Mother Teresa

Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend. ~ Albert Camus

Don’t be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.~ Richard Bach

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. ~ Anais Nin

Everyone has a friend during each stage of life. But only lucky ones have the same friend in all stages of life. ~ Anonymous

For most of us, dreams come true only after they do not matter, Only in childhood do we ever have the chance of making dreams come true when they mean everything. ~ Anonymous

Friends are like walls, sometimes you lean on them and sometimes it’s good just knowing they’re there. ~ Anonymous

Friends are the angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly. ~ Lorraine K. Mitchell

Friends are the most important part of your life. Treasure the tears, treasure the laughter, but most importantly, treasure the memories. ~ Dave Brenner

Friendship can start in childhood and follow you all through life. ~ Anonymous

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

Friendship is a gift that is fair in all things. It roots from one’s heart and involves memories that stay not for a while but a lifetime. ~ Anonymous

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. ~ George Washington

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. ~ Aristotle

Friendship is a special kind of love. More than endless, more than true. When friends parted ways no matter the distance, expect them to keep coming back to you. ~ John K.

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. ~ Eustace Budgell

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots. ~ George Santayana

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. ~ Khalil Gibran

Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything. ~ Muhammad Ali

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious. ~ Thomas Aquinas

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival. ~ C. S. Lewis

Friendship isn’t how you forget, but how you forgive. Not how you listen, but how you understand. Not how you see, but how you feel. Not how you let go, but how you hold on! ~ Anonymous

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing. ~ Elie Wiesel

Friendship that insists upon agreement on all things isn’t worth the name. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Good friends will allow you to be as innocent and free as a child when in private, and as wise and mature as an adult when in public. ~ Criss Jami

Growing apart does not change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I am glad for that. ~ Ally Condie

Having childhood friends in life is like real pearls in thread, who always shine and make life bright. ~ Nitin Verma

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

I actually don’t hang out with any celebrities. My closest friends are old friends. And my real close friends, none of them are actors. ~ Denzel Washington

I believe in angels, the kind Heaven sends. I am surrounded by angels, but I call them my best friends. ~ Anonymous

I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let’s face it, friends make life a lot more fun. ~ Charles R.Swindoll

I don’t think if you ask any of my childhood friends they would say that I had a weird childhood; they might say there weren’t a lot of regular rules, the conversations in the house were always very open, dreams were a great a talk about, everybody was making something all the time. ~ Jennifer Lynch

I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell – you see, I have friends in both places. ~ Mark Twain

I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. ~ Jane Austen

I have always looked at life as a voyage, mostly wonderful, sometimes frightening. In my family and friends I have discovered treasure more valuable than gold. ~ Jimmy Buffett

I have had friends who have acted kindly towards me, and it has been my good fortune to have it in my power to give them substantial proofs of my gratitude. ~ Giacomo Casanova

I have learned that friendship isn’t about who you’ve known the longest, it’s about who came and never left your side. ~ Yolanda Hadid

I have very strong theories about magazine publishing. And I think that it is the most personal form of journalism. And I think that a magazine is an old friend. ~ Hugh Hefner

I keep my old friends, and get older with them, but push young. It’s good to be surrounded by kids, because they keep you young. ~ Carine Roitfeld

I look to the sea, reflections in the waves spark my memory. Some happy, some sad, I think of childhood friends, and the dreams we had. ~ Styx

I love coming back home and seeing old friends and family. I would say it keeps me grounded. ~ Coy Bowles

I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, and old wine. ~ Oliver Goldsmith

I love the friends that you don’t see for days, weeks even months and the bond is still strong as ever. ~ Anonymous

I never feel lonely if I’ve got a book – they’re like old friends. Even if you’re not reading them over and over again, you know they are there. And they’re part of your history. They sort of tell a story about your journey through life. ~ Emilia Fox

I speak to my childhood friends almost every day over the Internet. ~ Alessandra Ambrosio

I think if I’ve learned anything about friendship, it’s to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don’t walk away, don’t be distracted, don’t be too busy or tired, don’t take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff. ~ John Katz

I try to treat whoever I meet as an old friend. This gives me a genuine feeling of happiness. It is the practice of compassion. ~ Dalai Lama

I was away from the front lines for a while, this spring, living with other troops, and considerable fighting took place while I was gone. When I got ready to return to my old friends at the front I wondered if I would sense any change in them. ~ Ernie Pyle

I’d like to be the sort of friend that you have been to me. I’d like to be the help that you’ve been always glad to be; I’d like to mean as much to you each minute of the day, as you have meant, old friend of mine, to me along the way. ~ Edgar Guest

If ever there is a tomorrow when we’re not together, there is something you must always remember: You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. ~ A. A. Milne

If friendship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in the world. ~ Abraham Lincoln

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older. ~ Tom Stoppard

If you have two friends in your lifetime, you’re lucky. If you have one good friend, you’re more than lucky. ~ S.E. Hinton

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you. ~ A. A. Milne

If you’re old enough to have a job and to have a life, you use Face book exactly as advertised, you look up old friends. ~ Jaron Lanier

I’ll always be yours. No distance or time apart will change that, Lily. ~ Krista Ritchie

In a better world we will find our young years and our old friends. ~ Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

In friendship, we are all debtors. We all owe each other for a thousand small kindnesses, for little moments of grace in the chaos. ~ Emery Lord

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, for in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed ~ Khalil Gibran

In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them. ~ Confucius

It is nice when you meet up with old friends and see how much you have both grown. ~ Anonymous

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends. ~ Sinclair Lewis

It’s an insane world but in it there is one sanity the loyalty of old friends. ~ Ben Hur

It’s awkward going back up to Edinburgh to see my old friends, because I’m not on the same wavelength. ~ James William Middleton

It’s less the words they say than those they leave unsaid that split old friends apart. ~ Frederick Buechner

It’s no good trying to keep up old friendships. It’s painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

Keep your family and old friends around you. That’s what I had done and that’s what saved my life when it came to being famous. ~ Barry Manilow

Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best. ~ John Webster

Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. ~ Marcel Proust

Like the ripple effect of a pebble tossed into a pond, your smile will spread far beyond the first person who receives it. ~ Danielle Cearbaugh

Long friendships are like jewels, polished over time to become beautiful and enduring. ~ Celia Brayfield

Love the friends you have. Forgive the ones that hurt you. And never let go to a memory that made you happy. ~ Anonymous

Many of my old friends are gone now. I have a hard time dealing with the fact that they’re just not there to talk to. I can’t call them up for a rabbit-skin glue recipe anymore. ~ James Rosenquist

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn’t seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces. ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh

My best friends are like fairytales, they have been there since once upon a time and will be there until forever after. ~ Anonymous

My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right. ~ Dan Quayle

Never forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours. ~ Ludwig Van Beethoven

Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life-and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next. ~ Dean Koontz

New friends may be poems but old friends are alphabets. Don’t forget the alphabets because you will need them to read the poems. ~ William Shakespeare

No matter how long its been, every time I stare at the pictures we took, it still feels like yesterday. ~ Mahmoud El Hallab

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 Baru

Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were the easiest for his feet. ~ John Selden

Old friends are gold. New friends are diamonds. If you get diamonds, don’t forget gold because only gold can hold a diamond. ~

One friend in a life time is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim. ~ Henry Adams

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention. ~ Clifton Fadiman

One of the hardest aspects of this protracted public persona does not know others as well as they feel they know me. It’s a rather clumsy feeling actually; to not know someone who acts as though you’re old friends. ~ Christopher Knight

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood. ~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends. ~ Rachel Field

One of things I like about looking at pictures when you’re young and also meeting back with old friends you haven’t seen in a long time is, for me, it’s a glimpse of who I was. ~ Lea Thompson

People change. Friends sometimes become stranger, but the memories will never change. ~ Anonymous

People have told me ‘Betty, Facebook is a great way to keep in touch with old friends… .. At my age, if I wanted to keep in touch with old friends, I’d need a Ouija board. ~ Betty White

Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends. ~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Since childhood she had walked the Devon rivers with her father looking for flowers and the nests of birds, passing some rocks and trees as old friends, seeing a Spirit everywhere, gentle in thought to all her eyes beheld. ~ Henry Williamson

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good. ~ Helen Keller

Some people arrive and make such a beautiful impact on your life; you can barely remember what life was like without them. ~ Anna Taylor

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over. ~ Octavia Butler

Spring Day’ – I wrote the main lyrics based on my personal experience with old friends. It is about my sad memories with him, and it makes me sentimental whenever I listen to the song. ~ Suga

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart. ~ Washington Irving

Tell me, why are the old friends kind and ever the tenderest, too? Youth has no art, but an open mind, And its love is sincere and true. ~ Edwin Leibfreed

Ten minutes with a genuine friend is better than years spent with anyone less. ~ Crystal Woods

That friend who you may not see very often, but the moment you reconnect feels like yesterday. ~ Anonymous

The best mirror is an old friend. ~ George Herbert

The best part about childhood love is finding someone who can become your best friend for life. ~ Anonymous

The biggest ingredient in a best friend is someone whose actions you respect and who you can truly be yourself around. ~ Renee Olstead

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with friendship. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment is a secret which but few discover. ~ Joseph Addison

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

The only good thing about going to the fights is you can go into the green room and you can see some of your old friends that you haven’t seen in a long time. ~ Robert Goulet

The secret to a really great friendship is just creating fun memories whenever you’re with that person. ~ Zendaya Coleman

The thing I have really enjoyed lately is to realise I know people, and good people everywhere. What I enjoy is meeting people, staying at their places, discover a city that way. And I found out this can be done because there is always a potential friend anywhere. I have the luck to have old friends who stay friends for eternity. They are a stable basis, my territory. ~ Gaspar Claus

The thing is, when you see your old friends, you come face to face with yourself. I run into someone I’ve known for 40 or 50 years, and they’re old. And I suddenly realize I’m old. It comes as an enormous shock to me. ~ Polly Bergen

There are friendships imprinted in our hearts that will never be diminished by time and distance. ~ Dodinsky

There are good ships and wood ships, ships that sail the sea, but the best ships are friendships, may they always be! ~ Irish Proverb

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love. ~ William Hazlitt

There are rare people who will show up at the right time, help you through the hard times and stay into your best times… Those are the keepers. ~ Nausicaa Twila

There are things that I can tell my friends that I just can’t tell my family, just as far as how I’m feeling about things. My friends know me the best in a certain way. I just think old friends are important. ~ Jonathan Levin

There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you. ~ Paramahansa Yogananda

There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good old friend. ~ Katharine Butler Hathaway

There is nothing I wouldn’t do for those who are my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature. ~ Jane Austen

There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends. ~ Sylvia Plath

There is one friend in the life of each of us, who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one’s self, the very meaning of one’s soul. ~ Edith Wharton

There is only one thing better than making a new friend and that is keeping an old one. ~ Elmer G. Letterman

There is something about childhood friends that you just can’t replace. ~ Lisa Whelchel

There’s not a word yet, for old friends who’ve just met. ~ Jim Henson

There’s one thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die – their silence. ~ Ben Hecht

There’s something about childhood friends that you just can’t replace. ~ Lisa Whelchel

To be with old friends is very warming and comforting. ~ Ian Ziering

To the world, you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world. ~ Anonymous

Treat each person as you would an old friend. ~ Dalai Lama

True friends are those rare people who come to find you in dark places and lead you back to the light. ~ Anonymous

True friends aren’t the ones who make your problems disappear. They are the ones who won’t disappear when you’re facing problems. ~ Anonymous

True friends will always push you towards the great possibilities of your future; false friends will always chain you to the mistakes in your past. ~ Seth Brown

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost. ~ Charles Caleb Colton

Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet, and two others at first speech are old friends. ~ Mary Catherwood

Value those friends who gave you good memories. Don’t ever change them for any material things in this world. Time has always taught us a lesson. Once you have disappointed them, you will hardly find a way to call an old friend when the time comes that will you need them. ~ Anonymous

We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

We didn’t realize we were making memories we just knew we were having fun. ~ Anonymous

We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young. ~ Letty Cottin Pogrebin

We regard America and Europe as old friends. We keep old friends, but we make new friends in Japan, India, and China. ~ Olusegun Obasanjo

When I see you through my eyes, I think that we are different. When I see you through my heart, I know we are the same. ~ Doe Zantamata

When I see old friends, I’m very excited. ~ Chino Moreno

When Nirvana became popular, you could very easily slip and get lost during that storm. I, fortunately, had heavy anchors – old friends, family. ~ Dave Grohl

When old friends get together, everything else fades to insignificance. ~ Robert Lynn Aspri

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands. ~ Maria Shriver

When we are old and failing, it is the memories of childhood which can be summoned most clearly. ~ Dan Simmons

When we forget old friends, it is a sign we have forgotten ourselves. ~ William Hazlitt

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. ~ Henri Nouwen

When you get lost in a really strange place, nothing is more comforting than found your friend whom you trust and can show the way. ~ Toba Beta

Yes’m, old friends is always best, ‘less you can catch a new one that’s fit to make an old one out of. ~ Sarah Orne Jewett

You can’t make old friends. You either have them or you don’t. ~ Kenny Rogers

You don’t have to have anything in common with people you’ve known since you were five. With old friends, you’ve got your whole life in common. ~ Lyle Lovett

You never forget the neighbourhood kids you grew up with. ~ Anonymous

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