Companion Quotes - page 8

My wife Ciera and I can stand face-to-face in our kitchen and stare into each other's eyes and talk for three hours without noticing that any time has passed. She is the kind of gal I spent a lifetime daydreaming about. She is an actor and a creative companion. (Jim Parrack)
I am happy now, to recall that I was not only his son but his companion, and whenever there was a hunting expedition or any other pleasure, I was always with him. View quote
John Philip Sousa
I was the first companion to kiss the Doctor. I played Grace Holloway to Paul McGann's Doctor in the 1996 TV movie. We shared three kisses, in fact: very sweet and chaste. When I took the part, I'd never even heard of 'Doctor Who.' No one warned me that the kisses would be a big deal. View quote
Daphne Ashbrook
I was raised by television. It was my first cultural window. It was a constant companion. View quote
Nic Pizzolatto
My dad was a great movie companion. He wouldn't diminish 'The Jerk.' If I liked it, he liked it. He could see it through my eyes. View quote
Noah Baumbach
That's what I love about those old movies - the music is like a constant companion. Even in scenes that aren't particularly dramatic, like a woman checking her watch, you hear the music as a comment on that action. View quote
Petra Haden
To keep farmers on the farm we must maintain a strong farm safety net, but we will also have to build a thriving companion economy to compliment production agriculture in rural America. View quote
Thomas Vilsack
Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacities. She has the right to participate in the minutest details in the activities of man, and she has an equal right of freedom and liberty with him. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
I guess I'm looking for what any guy is looking for. I want a companion, you know. Just someone to share life with. I want her to be my biggest fan and I want to be her biggest fan, too. I want us to raise kids in a home where they know their parents are in love with each other, with them, and with God. I guess that's all I want. View quote
Don Miller (author)
A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn. View quote
William Hazlitt
I ask you to pass through life at my side-to be my second self, and best earthly companion. (Charlotte Brontë)
I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts. View quote
George Eliot
We are facing a very new and a very troubling assault on our fiscal security, on our very economic life and we are facing it from a thing called the video cassette recorder and its necessary companion called the blank tape. View quote
Jack Valenti
To no man make yourself a boon companion Your joy will be less but less will be your grief. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian must be short and precarious. View quote
Edward Gibbon
I have experienced as violence the emergence of the culture of compulsory industrialised joy, which is the companion of consumerism. View quote
Jeremy Seabrook
In a strong relationship, you should love your companion more than you need them. View quote
Steve Maraboli
Progress' constant companion is nostalgia for the way things used to be. View quote
Ira Glass
The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion; and so let all young persons take their choice. (William Makepeace Thackeray)
Here white sea-born clouds companion With such peaks as know the stars! View quote
Joaquin Miller
There is no companion like solitude. One who knows how to tune himself to the inner silence, even in the midst of the din and roar of the marketplace, enjoys a most recreative solitude. View quote
Chinmayananda Saraswati
Oh this is not that sweet love Own companion to the dove; But a wild and wandering thing, Varying as the lights that fling Radiance o'er his peacock's wing. I do weep, that Love should be Ever linked with Vanity. View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
But this is as a dream, - the plough has pass'd Where the stag bounded, and the day has looked On the green twilight of the forest-trees. This Oak has no companion ! View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon