50 Childhood Friends Quotes to Make You Miss the Good Old Days

1. "There's something about childhood friends that you just can't replace." - Lisa Whelchel

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

3. "Growing apart doesn't change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side." - Ally Condie

4. "Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends." - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

5. "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

6. “You can go through life and make new friends every year - every month practically - but there was never any substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years. Those are the ones in which we are bound to one another with hoops of steel.” - Alexander McCall Smith

7. “... the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.” - Mary Shelley

8. "Childhood friends know the stories that made us who we are." — Unknown

9. “Childhood friends understand us better than anyone else and always know how to make us smile.” - Unknown

10. “Friends that have known us since we were children help keep us youthful, no matter how old we may be.” - Unknown

11. “Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.” – David Elkind

12. “You never forget the neighborhood kids that you grew up with.” – Unknown

13. “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

14. “Beautiful memories are like old friends. They may not always be on your mind, but they are forever in your heart.” - Susan Gale

15. “There’s something about childhood friends that you just can’t replace.” - Lisa Whelchel

16. “You don’t have to have anything in common with your childhood friends; you’ve got your whole life in common.” - Unknown

17. “A friend you’ve known since childhood is one of the greatest gifts your heart will ever know.” - Unknown

18. “Having good childhood friends is incredible, but still being friends when you’re adults, that’s magical.” - Unknown

19. “Childhood is when you plant the seeds of friendship and the true ones grow over time.” – Lester Ng

20. “There’s no friend like someone who has known you since you were five.” - Anne Stevenson

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

2. “Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.” – Muhammad Ali

3. “We didn’t realize we were making memories, we just knew we were having fun.” – Winnie The Pooh

4. "Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones." - Baron de Montesquieu

5. “Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.” – C.S. Lewis

6. "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." - Unknown

7. "Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends." - Jacques Delille

8. "Friends, though absent, are still present." - Marcus Tullius Cicero

9. "Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones" - John Lennon

10. "A friend is one who joyfully sings with you when you are on the mountaintop, and silently walks beside you through the valley." - William Arthur Ward

11. "Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light." - Helen Keller

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

13. "The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for." - Mark Twain

14. "Friends are those rare people who ask how we are, and then wait to hear the answer." - Ed Cunningham

15. "Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies." - Aristotle

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

2. “Ten minutes with a genuine friend is better than years spent with anyone less.” - Crystal Woods

3. "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

4. "A True friend is one who sees a fault, gives you advice and who defends you in your absence." - Ali ibn Abi Talib

5. "Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart" - Eleanor Roosevelt

6. "A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart." - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

7. “A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.” - Arnold H. Glasgow

8. "A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked." - Bernard Meltzer

9. "There is no possession more valuable than a good and faithful friend." - Socrates

10. "True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they come without invitation." - Theophrastus

11. "My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me." - Henry Ford

12. "A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart." - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

13. "A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words." - Donna Roberts

14. "The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you." - Elbert Hubbard

15. "True friends are always together in spirit." - Lucy Maud Montgomery