The Best Childhood Friendship Quotes
Childhood friendships are one of the hardest relationships to maintain when you move forward into adulthood. Whether you move away, fall out or simply drift apart, we always remember our childhood mates. Because after all, it was these friends who were there for us as we navigated puberty! They witnessed some of the strangest, greatest, funniest and most precious moments of our formative years, so whether you are still in contact with your childhood friends now or not, those memories will forever bind you together.
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.
Elbert Hubbard
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. ... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.
C. S. Lewis
Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
G. Randolf
You don't have to have anything in common with people you've known since you were five. With old friends, you've got your whole life in common.
Lyle Lovett
Growing apart doesn't change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side.
Ally Condie
Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
Francis Bacon
The best mirror is an old friend.
George Herbet
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
Aristotle
Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Ten minutes with a genuine friend is better than years spent with anyone less.
Crystal Woods
A good friend is a connection to life – a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.
Lois Wyse
Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Childhood friends are the benchmark of our lives, no matter where we go, what we do. They will always come by and take you to the place where you belong.
Burhan Din Wani
Everyone has a friend during each stage of life. But only lucky ones have the same friend in all stages of life.
Anonymous
I love coming back home and seeing old friends and family. I would say it keeps me grounded.
Coy Bowles
If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.
Tom Stoppard
New friends may be poems but old friends are alphabets. Don’t forget the alphabets because you will need them to read the poems.William Shakespeare
A circle is round, it has no end. That’s how long I want to be your friend.
Anonymous
Are we not like two volumes of one book?
Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.
Cicero
Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes that constitutes growing older.
John Dos Passos
Cherish all your happy moments. They make a fine cushion for old age.
Christopher Morley
Friendship is a gift that is fair in all things. It roots from one’s heart and involves memories that stay not for a while but a lifetime.
Anonymous
He felt lost and alone without his old friend, though he barely recognized him anymore. He wondered if they could ever be friends again.
Erin Hunter
I keep my old friends, and get older with them, but push young. It’s good to be surrounded by kids, because they keep you young.
Carine Roitfeld
I look to the sea, reflections in the waves spark my memory. Some happy, some sad, I think of childhood friends, and the dreams we had.
Styx
A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
Bernard Meltzer
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aristotle
Having childhood friends in life is like real pearls in thread, who always shine and make life bright.
Nitin Verma
I think if I’ve learned anything about friendship, it’s to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don’t walk away, don’t be distracted, don’t be too busy or tired, don’t take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff.
John Katz
Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.
John Webster
My best friends are like fairytales, they have been there since once upon a time and will be there until forever after.
Anonymous
People change. Friends sometimes become stranger, but the memories will never change.
Anonymous