#friend

A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#action #advisor #become #cease #desire

My family and our neighbors and friends thought of Africa and its Africans as extensions of the stereotyped characters that we saw in movies and on television in films such as 'Tarzan' and in programs such as 'Ramar of the Jungle' and 'Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.' ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#characters #extensions #family #films #friends

On the choice of friends, Our good or evil name depends. ↗

— John Gay

#depends #evil #friends #good #name

An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse. ↗

— John Gay

#foe #friend #may #open #pretended

Before Huey was 5, I could take him to work with me. Now, though, he has sports and lessons and friends, and it's not fair to remove him from his whole life. ↗

— Marg Helgenberger

#could #fair #friends #him #his

Well, I'm pretty domestic actually. I walk my dog. I go grocery shopping. I hang out with friends. I'm pretty normal, whatever normal is, on my off time. ↗

— James Iha

#dog #domestic #friends #go #grocery

A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle. ↗

— Jean Genet

#away #been #breeze #carrying #centuries

And we had a DJ - my childhood friend from Chicago came to be the DJ at our party out in LA. It was a party, rockin' and rolling, and it was dancing and fun. For me it was different; just to have family with us. ↗

— Jami Gertz

#chicago #childhood #dancing #different #dj

Everybody has a language or code that they use with their wife or their girlfriend or boyfriend or what have you. It's a language aside from the language they have with strangers. I've always been maybe an abuser of alliteration, but I've always loved it and I like how those words sound together. ↗

— Ben Gibbard

#aside #been #boyfriend #code #everybody

I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress. ↗

— Andre Gide

#better #caress #considered #even #friends