Patrick Vieira Quotes

I'm an awfully loyal friend. Once I've started a relationship with someone, it's like they are syrup and I'm a pancake. Their syrup gets into my pancake, so to speak.

...love is the sum of our choices, the strength of our commitments, the ties that bind us together.

The bonds of love are what connect us to the other side.

I could hold on to everything for the rest of my life. I don't make friends easy, and I don't lose friends easy.

And I'm as attached to my wife as anybody can be to another human being.

The longer you have something, the stronger the bond. That's true with people as well as things.

It's important for us to latch onto the people that we love.

When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.

When you're comfortable with someone, you don't look for anyone else.

No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.

I can't compare family to athletics.

Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.

I keep the people who I know love me really close.

The only important things are family and love.

I live by family over everything.

It's strong, Ian. The way she feels about you is something else. She loves this world, but so much of the reason she couldn't leave was really you. She thinks of you as her anchor. You gave her a reason to finally stay in one place after a lifetime of wandering.

I keep a close watch on this heart of mine I keep my eyes wide open all the time I keep the ends out for the tie that binds Because you're mine, I walk the line.

My friendships, they are a very strong part of my life, they are as light as gossamer but also they are as strong as steel. And I cannot throw them off, nor altogether do with them or without them. And I love them at the point where they say: It is nice to see you again. And I love them too at the point when they say: Good-bye, come again soon. The rhythm of friendship is a very good rhythm.

The chains of love are stronger than the chains of fear.

Of course I believe in marriage. Commitment to one other person in life is glorious.

Commitment is a big part of what I am and what I believe. How committed are you to winning? How committed are you to being a good friend?

Clearly, commitment is a necessary component for creating loving relationships.

A long novitiate of acquaintance should precede the vows of friendship.

Sometimes during a relationship, a friendship, a friend's gonna have to prove they're your friend, and you're gonna have to prove you're their friend.

I knew he would never leave me, never let me down-because the man had never abandoned anything in his long life. If I hadn’t taken the gold rope of our bond, I knew Adam would have sat on me and hog-tied me with it. I liked that. A lot.