8,502 Quotes About Friendship

If the earth is man's extended body, to be loved and respected as one's own body, those who do no greening of themselves will hardly bring about the greening of America. The idea of 'greening' involves color, flowering, freshness of spring, and, above all, respect for what is organic and vegetative as distinct from the mechanical and metallic.

Every organism requires an environment of friends, partly to shield it from violent changes, and partly to supply it with its wants.

I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered.

no person is your friend (or kin) who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow and be perceived as fully blossomed as you were intended. Or who belittles in any fashion the gifts you labor so to bring into the world.

A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't.

If there is a load you have to bear that you can't carry, I'm right up the road. I'll share your load if you just call me.

Lean on me, when you're not strong and I'll be your friend, I'll help you carry on.

I used food as a coping mechanism for many, many years, and it was my best friend for a long time.

There are many ways of discarding [books]. You can give them to friends,--or enemies,--or to associations or to poor Southern libraries. But the surest way is to lend them. Then they never come back to bother you.