Alexander McCall Smith Quotes

One of my favorite things about my life is that I have the same group of friends that I grew up with. I love them so dearly, and we give each other a hard time.

Other blessings may be taken away, but if we have acquired a good friend by goodness, we have a blessing which improves in value when others fail.

A friendship counting nearly forty years is the finest kind of shade-tree I know.

To throw awayan honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away.

You never know really what anyone thinks about you - that's why all my closest friends are ones I've had since my schooling days when I was 5. And I surround myself with people who I trust and who know me.

I do have many of the same friends I grew up with. Most I've known since we were three or four years old! I have made new friends as well.

Anime has sent me all over the world, introducing me to people who have touched my life in indescribably profound ways.

In a basic sense, 'A Little Life' is a homage to how my friends and I live our lives. I wanted to push past the definitions of how we typically define friendship. It's a different version of adulthood, but it's no less important and no less legitimate than anyone else's.

Anybody you make a movie with when you're 12 and they're 14, you're going to know them your whole life.

I have met friends that I will stay connected to for the rest of my life.

She thought of how precious it was to be able to know another person over many years. There was incomparable richness in it.

I’ve been friends with all these people for so many years now…. I’m so lucky to have Jennifer [Lawrence] and Josh [Hutcherson] and Woody [Harrelson] and all these other great people. We’ve created really strong bonds. It’s like high school because we’ll mess around for half the day and then we’ll do a little bit of work. Everyone’s goofing around and trying to mess each other up.

Friends are forever Boys are whatever.

Friendship is full of dregs.

All friends are not for life, but if you have a true friend, you have a life.

I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12 - Jesus, did you?

You meet people who forget you. You forget people you meet. But sometimes you meet those people you can't forget. Those are your 'friends

I don't think life offers any greater experience than the joyful sense of recognition when one finds in a new acquaintance a real friend, or when an old relationship deepens into friendship, or when one finds an old friendship intact despite the passage of years and many absences.

To mingle friendship far is mingling bloods.

Next to love friendship, in my opinion, is the most valuable thing life has to offer.

I guess no one stays friends for more than thirty years without broken hearts along the way.

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

Real friends were the kind where you pick up where you'd left off, whether it be a week since you'd seen each other or two years.

It's more intimate. Food can connect people in a forever sort of way.

Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.