101st Quotes

Nuts.
- General Anthony Clement McAuliffe
responding to a German demand to surrender his
101st Airborne Division in Belgium during World War II.

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Families are like fudge... mostly sweet with a few nuts.
- Anonymous

Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families.
- Anonymous

Kindness is the light that dissolves
all walls between souls, families, and nations.
- Paramahansa Yogananda

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

But what a cruel thing is war
to separate and destroy families and friends.
- Robert E. Lee

I know why families were created with all their imperfections.
They humanize you.
They are made to make you forget yourself occasionally,
so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed.
- Anais Nin

But what a cruel thing is war
to separate and destroy families and friends,
and mar the purest joys and happiness
God has granted us in this world,
to fill our hearts with hatred
instead of love for our neighbors,
and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world!
- Robert E. Lee

Prayer:
Lord God, Holy Spirit, Giver of All Light,
Bless and Keep All Those of This World.
Grant Us Your Peace, Your Light, Your Love.
Grant Us Complete Renewal of Body, Mind and Spirit -
Continual Rebirth in Newness of Life.
Let Your Light Shine Upon Us and Be Gracious to Us.
Grant to Each and Every One of Us:
Health, Comfort, Joy, Peace Within Ourselves,
Peace Within Our Families, Peace Within Our Communities,
and Peace among All those This World.
Grant That I May Be an Instrument of Thy Peace.
Grant That I May Radiate Thy Peace, Thy Light, Thy Love,
Thy Healing, Thy Comfort, Thy Joy,
to All Those Around Me and All Those in My Thoughts
This Day and Ever More. AMEN.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Let us all take more responsibility,
not only for ourselves and our families, but
for our communities and our country.
- William J. Clinton

Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White

You can make more friends in two months
by becoming interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying
to get other people interested in you.
- Dale Carnegie

Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher

It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich

Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln

Marriage, ultimately, is the practice of
becoming passionate friends.
- Harville Hendrix

Live with intention.
Walk to the edge.
Listen hard.
Practice wellness.
Play with abandon.
Laugh.
Choose with no regret.
Appreciate your friends.
Continue to learn.
Do what you love.
Live as if this is all there is.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies,
but even more to stand up to your friends.
- J.K. Rowling

"We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?" asked Piglet.
"Even longer," Pooh answered.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner

Truly great friends are hard to find,
difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
- Anonymous

Our opportunity is to Soar our Spirit.
To see Light and Joy in everything.
To spread our wings and fly boldly.
To give thanks for rainbows and butterflies -
our symbols of renewal and rebirth.
To offer daily Thanksgiving - for ourselves, our family,
our friends, our community, for the whole world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

True friends are appreciative and never demanding.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

So long as the memory of certain
beloved friends lives in my heart,
I shall say that life is good.
- Helen Keller

I no doubt deserved my enemies,
but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
- Walt Whitman

When true friends meet in adverse hour,
'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower.
A watery way an instant seen,
The darkly closing clouds between.
- Sir Walter Scott

Friends are angels who lift us to our feet
when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
- Anonymous

True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous

Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous

Friends love misery, in fact.
Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky
or too successful or too pretty,
our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
- Erica Jong

Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams

Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.

I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
- Abraham Lincoln

Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry

Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery
in which to bury the faults of his friends.
- Henry Brooks Adams

No man is the whole of himself;
his friends are the rest of him.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick

When friends stop being frank and useful to each other,
the whole world loses some of its radiance.
- Anatole Broyard

Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving
for my friends, the old and the new.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley

Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus

It is better to be in chains with friends,
than to be in a garden with strangers.
- Persian Proverb

The making of friends, who are real friends,
is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
- Edward Everett Hale

Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
- Mencius

Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
- Jacques Delille

Friends are God's apology for relations.
- Hugh Kingsmille

Could we see when and where we are to meet again,
we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
- Ouida

Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille

Friends share our pain and touch our wounds
with a gentle and tender hand.
- Henri Nouwen

Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous

Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone

Can miles truly separate us from friends?
If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?
- Richard Bach

One measure of friendship consists
not in the number of things friends can discuss,
but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
- Clifton Fadiman

We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

We'll be friends until forever, just you wait and see.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

My father always used to say that when you die,
if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
- Lee Iacocca

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes.
They are kind to one another's dreams.
- Henry David Thoreau

It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The difference between men friends and women friends
is that men tend to do things together,
women tend to just be together.
- Art Jahnke

Friends are those rare people who ask how we are
and then wait to hear the answer.
- Anonymous

Books and friends should be few but good.
- Anonymous

Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle

Fate makes us family. choice makes us friends.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Fear makes strangers of people
who would otherwise be friends.
- Shirley MacLaine

Life is partly what we make it,
and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
- Tehyi Hsieh

I will reflect the finest qualities my friends offer me
and remind them of all the promise I see in them.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley

Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat

I get by with a little help from my friends.
- John Lennon

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie