Famous Quotes

"No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow."

Alice Walker on Friendship

More quotes about Friendship

• "A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same."

  Elbert Hubbard on Friendship

• "Don't walk behind me I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."

  Albert Camus on Friendship

• "An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind."

  Buddha on Friendship

• "Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything."

  Muhammad Ali on Friendship

• "Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down."

  Oprah Winfrey on Friendship

More quotes by Alice Walker

• "Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for."

• "'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding."

• "As you know from school, it's when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared, even if you fail, you've done your best."

• "As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young."

• "I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same time, there's a real lightheartedness about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they're not the same, ever again."