Old Friends Quotes

‘Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.’ – Dalai Lama

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

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

‘To reminisce with my old friends, a chance to share some memories, and play our songs again.’ – Ricky Nelson

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

‘To be with old friends is very warming and comforting.’ – Ian Ziering

‘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

‘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

‘It’s always great to see old friends, especially those I have not been able to see in 15 months.’ – William Regal

‘Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.’ – Athenaeus

‘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

‘Old friends are best.’ – John Selden

‘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

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

‘I have two homes, like someone who leaves their hometown and/or parents and then establishes a life elsewhere. They might say that they’re going home when they return to see old friends or parents, but then they go home as well when they go to where they live now. Sarajevo is home, Chicago is home.’ – Aleksandar Hemon

‘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

‘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

”Spring Day’ – I wrote 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

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

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

‘Our freedom, our prosperity and our security depend on a proper respect for the fortune of our neighbours, allies and old friends.’ – Nicholas Soames

‘Old friends die on you, and they’re irreplaceable. You become dependent.’ – Lionel Blue

‘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 thing about New York is, more than any other place I’ve ever been, you run into people on the street that you would never imagine you’d see, old friends, people just like there for a day or two. I find that all the time when I’m walking around Manhattan, running into people that I had no idea were even there.’ – Michael Shannon

‘Rejection and I are old friends.’ – Michaela Watkins

‘These people are real to me, and situations keep coming up where their emergence feels natural. It’s like meeting old friends. I hope readers feel the same way.’ – Jonathan Kellerman

‘Few and far between are the books you’ll cherish, returning to them time and again, to revisit old friends, relive old happiness, and recapture the magic of that first read.’ – Michael A. Stackpole

‘One might expect that the families of murder victims would be showered with sympathy and support, embraced by their communities. But in reality they are far more likely to feel isolated, fearful, and ashamed, overwhelmed by grief and guilt, angry at the criminal-justice system, and shunned by their old friends.’ – Eric Schlosser

‘Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.’ – Robert Burton

‘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 Baruch

‘I miss all of my old friends who have passed away. Sometimes you just don’t understand why they were taken so soon. I loved and miss Johnny Cash. I miss my old buddy Johnny Paycheck, who happens to be buried in an area of the cemetery that I bought for my family.’ – George Jones

‘When ‘Jewel’ was screened, old friends from school and university got back in touch. More than one of them told me that their partners hated Merrick so much they could not think of having me in the house. This kind of audience identification does not happen in any other medium.’ – Tim Pigott-Smith

‘I spend a lot of time thinking about this business of letting go – letting go of the children God gives to us for such a brief time before they go off on their own; letting go of old homes, old friends, old places and old dreams.’ – Susan Estrich

‘What I wear is a reflection of where I am going and how I am feeling. If I’m in a good mood, it’s got to be cashmere and jeans – just something comfy, soft and warm. When I’m down, I might find something that I haven’t worn for a while that was bought for me – or wear a brooch or a pair of shoes that are like old friends.’ – Kim Cattrall

‘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 really, really important.’ – Jonathan Levine

‘Social media was premised on the free and open exchange of ideas. It has reconnected old friends, helped people find lost loved ones, and given public figures and businesses a platform to market themselves and their products. But as Big Tech companies have grown, so has their appetite to censor.’ – Nicole Malliotakis

‘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

‘It’s exciting to play against old teammates, old friends.’ – Jessica McDonald

‘One of the hardest aspects of this protracted public persona is not knowing 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

‘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

‘About 70 percent 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

‘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

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

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

‘In this play we’re dealing with relative truths – who’s lying, who’s telling the truth. But underneath that, Ed and I have hit this deeper level of intimacy between old friends that comes out in the play.’ – Fred Ward

‘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

‘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

‘These songs are old friends I have entertained myself with when I’m washing the dishes, driving to the store and walking down the aisles. The ones that you sing when you’re driving in the car and as a singer you always go back to them.’ – Al Jarreau

‘As soon as you get a certain amount of attention, then everybody kinda wants to start taking pot shots at you. All your old friends that supported you don’t support you any more.’ – John Zorn

‘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

‘If you’re old enough to have a job and to have a life, you use Facebook exactly as advertised, you look up old friends.’ – Jaron Lanier

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

‘I went out with some old friends and we were having fun. A couple of them were very intoxicated. When I went to leave, I refused to let them drive. So when I got pulled over, I was the driver.’ – Rima Fakih

‘Not a lot of people know me outside of athletics and believe it or not I am actually quite shy. The exhilaration of a win or tears after falling are the extremes. It takes me a while to get to know someone, but once I do I am very loyal to my old friends.’ – Sally Pearson

‘I kept saying that I’d never live in L.A., and I didn’t think I would. But that’s where the work is, and I ended up making a lot of friends there, and my old friends moved out to Los Angeles too. And also, I think when you’re famous, its hard to live in a small town.’ – John Cusack

‘I love San Francisco so much. I call it the Emerald City and have been coming here since 1992. I have a few old friends that live here, and my aunt and uncle live in Oakland. I think it’s a magical city – it’s big, sexy and very ‘cosmo’ with a small-town feel.’ – Andy Cohen

‘Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it’s not one-on-one, it’s a one-on-12. It’s very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.’ – Feist

‘It’s fine to have social media that connects us with old friends, but we need tools that help us discover new people as well.’ – Ethan Zuckerman

‘I had not met Tina Fey before I auditioned for ’30 Rock’. Some people think we’re old friends from ‘Second City’ days. I had always been a fan of Tina’s. But I actually never planned on being in a sitcom.’ – Judah Friedlander

‘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

‘It is hard being a football loather, a football unfan. I sometimes feel as lonely as the sole survivor in the last reel of a Zombie film, as, one by one, old friends reveal themselves, with their glassy stares and outstretched arms, to have succumbed to the lure.’ – Craig Brown

‘I’ve worn jeans until they’re ripped all the way around the crotch and I can’t wear them any longer. You get so attached to jeans, they’re like old friends.’ – Lily Donaldson

‘Peggy Atwood, Alice Munro, Hugh Hood, Michael Ondaatje – these are all old friends from my early 20s.’ – Clark Blaise

‘It is a great honor to be awarded a Nobel Prize. This is a wonderful experience for my wife Betty and me. We received congratulations by email, phone and post, many from old friends we had not seen for some time.’ – Willard Boyle

‘I used to do my best thinking while staring out airplane windows. The seat-back video system put a stop to that. Now I sit and watch old’ Friends’ and ‘Everybody Loves Raymond’ episodes. Walking is good, but here again, technology has interfered. I like to listen to iTunes while I walk home. I guess I don’t think anymore.’ – Mary Roach

‘Larry Hagman and I are very old friends.’ – Joel Grey

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

‘Dancing along with family members and old friends, especially during a marriage, is a memorable experience.’ – The Great Khali

‘I had scarcely met Stephen, and then one Saturday I met some old friends for coffee, and they were saying, ‘Gosh it’s terrible about Stephen, isn’t it?’ They told me that he had been in St. Bartholomew’s Hospital in London having horrible tests and then had been diagnosed with an atypical form of a rare disease – motor neurone disease.’ – Jane Hawking

‘Silver Jews was always a coolection of old friends. Uncoolection.’ – David Berman

‘Old friends call me Sea Salt, because my last name is Salter. Or Cocoa, cause my real first name is Courtney.’ – Ari Lennox

‘Sometimes even my old friends are against me. But it’s important to face your opposition and hear them out.’ – Park Won-soon

‘Sleep deprivation and I are old friends. I’ve been familiar with it for almost 20 years, ever since I started getting up at ridiculous o’clock for breakfast TV.’ – Susanna Reid