#friends

My father and uncles and all their friends turned their lungs black trying to satisfy my collector's zeal. ↗

— Edward G. Robinson

#collector #father #friends #lungs #satisfy

However near and dear to you may be your wife, children, friends, they are not you; they are outside of you. ↗

— John Buchanan Robinson

#dear #friends #however #may #near

Tony, Stacy and Jay really looked at life completely different and that played into everything that they did, whether it was skating or with their friendships. And for the three of us, we had such a close relationship off screen, that it was so easy to have that on screen. ↗

— John Robinson

#close relationship #completely #did #different #easy

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#be yourself #believe #cut #defines #friends

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#afford #blessings #friends #old #old friends

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#be true #friend #true #word #work

When Paul and I were first friends, starting in the sixth grade and seventh grade, we would sing a little together and we would make up radio shows and become disc jockeys on our home wire recorder. And then came rock and roll. ↗

— Art Garfunkel

#came #disc #first #friends #grade

As straight Americans we have two choices: we can choose to sit back and enjoy our rights as we have them, or we can realize that it is actually not freedom at all when our friends, family, neighbors, and colleagues do not share these basic rights. ↗

— Jack Antonoff

#back #basic #basic rights #choices #choose

Every single kid in my group of friends at school was from a single-parent family. ↗

— Christina Applegate

#family #friends #group #kid #school

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#differences #direct #direct proportion #friends #irritating