A Quote by Willa Cather

One may have staunch friends in one's own family, but one seldom has admirers.

Willa Cather

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Willa Cather
American - Author
December 7, 1873 - April 24, 1947

Great talents have some admirers, but few friends.

Reinhold Niebuhr

I'd rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.

e. e. cummings

Ever notice how seldom we lose control when frustrated by our boss, but how often we do when annoyed by friends or family?

Lynn G. Robbins

I want the freedom to carve and chisel my own face, to staunch the bleeding with ashes, to fashion my own gods out of my entrails.

Gloria E. Anzaldúa

The fact that, for so many generations, ordinary, everyday Americans came out of the closet and told their family and friends about who they are has laid the foundation for public sentiment to change. They got comfortable in their own skins to be able to share themselves with family and friends. This is where social change took place.

Mark Takano

Strange as it may seem, George Washington's life has now been so minutely documented that we know far more about him than did his own friends, family, and contemporaries.

Ron Chernow

Due to my lack of family, I've almost built a family around me of friends that are, for me that is, they mean more to me than my own family.

Tana Mongeau

The sacred is in the ordinary...it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's own backyard...travel may be a flight from confronting the scared--this lesson can be easily lost. To be looking elsewhere for miracles is to me a sure sign of ignorance that everything is miraculous.

Abraham Maslow

My strength has always been my family and my friends who are like family. The business can chew you up and spit you out and if you don't have some calm in the storm, it's a very lonely journey. My family and friends love me whether I'm working or not and that makes all the difference.

Melanie Nicholls-King

I have the best friends in the world. I miss my friends, I miss my family but they always come out and visit me. I went to boarding school in the country so there's no real differentiation between family and friends. I went there from when I was 8 until I was 17 - it was insane.

Jamie Campbell Bower

It may be laid down as a position which seldom deceives, that when a man cannot bear his own company, there is something wrong.

Samuel Johnson

May you be surrounded by friends and family, and if this is not your lot, may the blessings find you in your solitude.

Leonard Cohen

At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.

V. S. Naipaul

I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief... All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and I stand with all the world before me, where to choose a path to make in it.

Florence Nightingale

Some of my friends and family have tried to challenge me to do jokes that aren't as self-deprecating, where I genuinely express my own opinion in my own voice.

Maria Bamford

Men and women with freed minds may often be mistaken, but they are seldom fooled. They may be influenced, but they cannot be intimidated. They may be perplexed, but they will never be lost.

Robert Kennedy

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