“The Goonies' is classic. That's, like, the movie I bring with me if I go out of town for a long time, because it just makes me think of the best times I've seen it with my friends growing up. Dude, everybody knows that movie, everybody watches that film. Best family film ever made.” IfsThinkingKnowsLongMadeFilmWatchesGrowing UpGrowingLong TimeMy FriendsTownsClassicBest TimesBest FamilyFriends Growing Up Author:Logan Lerman
“I confessed recently to an old friend, "I realized I was looking at you, in your visit, through old glasses. Speaking old words. Telling old stories. I realize that in my life I've made so many physical changes and I need to give my spirit time to catch up." Time for my spirit to look at my friend through the new glasses of current life experiences. Old friends are precious. They become even more treasured when they are wrapped in the currentness of life experiences and not relegated to the past in which they once lived.” NeedsGivingLooksMadeStoriesPastSpiritRealizingMy FriendsGlassesCurrentsI RealizedRedemptionLife ExperienceOld FriendsTreasuredNew Relationship Author:Mary Anne Radmacher
“When I was 11 my friend's mom made a peanut butter sandwich. I ate the sandwich and was like, 'I'm never eating anything else again.' And I still eat peanut butter every day. I would put peanut butter on a steak.” MadeStillsMomEatingMy FriendsSandwichesPeanutsSteakPeanut ButterPeanut Butter Sandwiches Author:Aasif Mandvi
“I remember as a boy when the conversation on civil rights was won in the South. I remember a time when one of my friends made a racist joke and another said, 'Hey man, we don't go for that anymore.'” MenMadeSaidRememberBoysRightsConversationJokesMy FriendsSouthCivil RightsHeyRacistRacist Jokes Author:Al Gore
“When I was 12 I made some little films with my friends. I tried to make gangster films, like Fantomas, but I remember being very disappointed with them. They weren't frightening at all. I'm sure they'd be very funny now.” LittlesMadeRememberFilmMy FriendsDisappointedFrighteningGangsters Author:Alain Resnais
“What I got out of baseball is what I have today, and I've got to look at that. I still see some of my friends that never made it past Triple-A. I made that last big step. I was lucky. I'm in love with my land. I got it all from playing ball. It gives me prestige. Someone says, 'What you got?' I say, 'One hundred and twenty-one acres of nice land.'” GivingLooksMadeStillsBigsTodayLastsPastStepsNiceLandLuckyHundredMy FriendsBaseballBallsGive MeTwentiesMade ItTwenty OnePrestigeAcres Author:Mark Fidrych
“I grew up in central Illinois midway between Chicago and St. Louis and I made an historic blunder. All my friends became Cardinals fans and grew up happy and liberal and I became a Cubs fan and grew up embittered and conservative.” MadeFansGrewGrew UpMy FriendsConservativeChicagoHistoricCardinalsBlundersIllinoisCubsMidwayChicago Cubs Author:George Will
“My friend Mercedes Pena made me get in touch with my emotions just before I had a breast cut off. Just as I suspected, they were awful. "How do you Latinas do this all the time in touch with your emotions?" I asked her. "That's why we take siestas," she replied.” MadeEmotionCuttingMy FriendsAwfulBreastsLatina Author:Molly Ivins
“Every social need, such as the need for friendship, must be a party to its own satisfaction: I cannot passively find my friend as a ready-made friend; a ready-made human being he may be, but his friendship for me I must help to create by my own active resolve.” NeedsHumansMayMadeHelpingSocialMy OwnHuman BeingsPartyReadyMy FriendsSatisfactionActiveResolve Book:The Meaning of God in Human Experience Source: The Meaning of God in Human Experience
“In those years, when I came to the States, people were always asking me why I didn't sing anymore. I'd tell them, 'I sing all around the world-Asia, Africa, Europe-but if you don't sing in the US, then you haven't really made it.' That's why I'll always be grateful to Paul Simon. He allowed me to bring my music back to my friends in this country.” PeopleIfsWorldYearsMadeCountryStatesHavensMy FriendsEuropeAskingGratefulMade ItAround The WorldBe GratefulAsia Author:Miriam Makeba