Adults Quote by Henning Mankell

Friends serve central functions for children that parents do not, and they play a critical role in shaping children's social skills and their sense…

— Zick Rubin

Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.

— David Elkind

Every friendship goes through ups and downs. Dysfunctional patterns set in; external situations cause internal friction; you grow apart and then bounce back together.

— Mariella Frostrup

Friendship is not a thing I have ever experienced. Not as a child, and not as I am now.

— Tahereh Mafi

Kids are smart nowadays, they are much more aware of their surroundings than we were 20 years ago, but at the same time it…

— Priyanshu Chatterjee

I feel like there are stages in many, many people's childhoods when you don't have one good friend. It can happen a lot in…

— Rebecca Stead

You create real friendships through a growth process. It's not just, oh hi, we're friends! That's very childlike. True adult friendships take time, understanding,…

— Erika Jayne

Friendship is usually treated...as a tough...thing which will survive all manner of bad treatment. But this is an exceedingly great and foolish error; it…

— Ouida

When you're a young kid, you've burst onto the scene, everyone want sort be your friend, come out with you, and you don't actually…

— Jack Grealish

Friendship takes place between those who have an affinity for one another, and is a perfectly natural and inevitable result. No professions nor advances…

— Henry David Thoreau

There is nothing like friendship nowadays ,its the Coincidence of selfishness

— Melchor Lim

Friendships are different from all other relationships. Unlike acquaintanceship, friendship is based on love. Unlike lovers and married couples, it is free of jealousy.…

— Stephen Ambrose