Among many of my friends and acquaintances, I seem to be one of the very few individuals who felt or feels no ambivalence about my mother. All my feelings for my mother were positive, very strong and abiding.
An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity.
When I was a kid, my friends and I formed a band, Trombone Shorty's Brass Band. When I was six, I was a bandleader for my brother's band.
Author: A person who's best friends are imaginary,and who's most exciting adventures take place on the written page.
The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way.
Pretending will only make us anxious and encourages us to make friends with a reason, then depending with lies, thereafter we will make love with stupidity
She didn't need friends; she needed to be a bigger bitch. Chubby Chaser, 11/21/14. Available for preorder on Amazon.
Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; I am your friend, but never your possession.
Friendship fills your life with the essence of joy and mutual understanding. And some of the best friends in life have more than two legs.
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.
I've seen a lot of my friends go through different reality shows, and they just get caught up in a lot of stagnant positions, unfortunately.
I am not convinced that lack of encryption is the primary problem. The problem with the Internet is that it is meant for communications among non-friends.
We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe.
We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.
Half the pleasure of solitude comes from having with us some friend to whom we can say how sweet solitude is.
Memo to extreme partisans: If you can't bring yourselves to love your enemies, can you at least learn to hate your friends?
Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.
Kids today don't want to get married. Too many of their friends have been married and divorced already. They just don't believe in it.
But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, All losses are restored and sorrows end.
My friends asked me to be a reverend at their wedding in France a few years ago. I went on the Internet, and within 15 seconds, I was printing out a certificate which allowed me to officiate at their wedding.
I sort of kept my hand in writing and went to work for the Sierra Club in '52, walked the plank there in '69, founded Friends of the Earth and the League of Conservation Voters after that.
