120 Childhood Friends Quotes
Feeling a bit nostalgic about your childhood days? These childhood friends’ quotes will take you on a trip down memory lane.
You may forge many friendships throughout your adulthood but childhood friendships are the ones that will never leave your memory. Some of us are fortunate to have lifetime friends to share a special bond with, but for others, what is left is the beautiful memories — and maybe awkward ones.
We often drift apart from childhood friends during our formative years due to school changes or one or both parties moving to a different city or even abroad.
Today, the use of technology and social media has made it easier to reconnect with friends from the past. Sometimes you may find them on your Facebook friends’ suggestions when you’re not even searching because of the mutual friends you both share.
In a study, 35 percent of 2,000 UK adults revealed that their first best friend plays a role in shaping who they are today. No matter the distance and time passed, you will always feel a strong bond with these individuals.
In this article, we’ve curated 120 childhood friends quotes that you will find relatable and heart-warming.
Feel free to share on social media and send them to your childhood besties.
Childhood Friends Quotes
1. “Remember that life’s most valuable antiques are dear old friends.” — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
2. “Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.” – David Elkind
3. “The friendships you make in your childhood are the ones that you will miss the most when you are an adult.” – Unknown
4. “Growing apart doesn’t change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled.” — Ally Condie
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. “There’s something about childhood friends that you just can’t replace” — Lisa Whelchel
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7. “When we were young, we made memories that solidified who we’d become, and tied our lives together permanently.” – Unknown
8. “It’s the little moments in childhood that make the biggest memories.” — Unknown
9. “There’s no friend like someone who has known you since you were five.” — Anne Stevenson
10. “Childhood friendships are a vault of childhood memories and nostalgia that cannot be easily deleted.” – Unknown
11. “Beta decay was… like a dear old friend. There would always be a special place in my heart reserved especially for it.” — Chien-Shiung Wu
12. “The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.” — Elisabeth Foley
13. “You don’t have to have anything in common with people you’ve known since you were five. With old friends, you’ve got your whole life in common.” — Lyle Lovett
14.“Childhood is when you plant the seeds of friendship and the true ones grow over time.” – Lester Ng
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15. “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
16. “I love coming back home and seeing old friends and family. I would say it keeps me grounded.” – Coy Bowles
17. “Even as my childhood friends and I change, we’ll always be the same to each other.” – Unknown
18. “Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
19. “Everyone has a friend during each stage of life. But only lucky ones have the same friend in all stages of life.” — Anonymous
20. “All of my friends, I consider childhood friends because we met when I was probably 13, and I’m still friends with them today. It’s nice that I have that core group.” — Rachel Bilson
21. “To reminisce with my old friends, a chance to share some memories, and play our songs again.” — Ricky Nelson
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22. “I look to the sea, reflections in the waves spark my memory. Some happy, some sad, I think of childhood friends, and the dreams we had in our world.” — Styx
23. “Beautiful memories are like old friends. They may not always be on your mind, but they are forever in your heart.” — Susan Gale
24. “New friends may be poems but old friends are alphabets. Don’t forget the alphabets because you will need them to read the poems.” — William Shakespeare
25. “All of my friends, I consider childhood friends because we met when I was probably 13, and I’m still friends with them today. It’s nice that I have that core group.” — Rachel Bilson
26. “If you have two friends in your lifetime, you’re lucky. If you have one good friend, you’re more than lucky.” — S. E. Hinton
27. “We didn’t realize we were making memories, we just knew we were having fun.” — Winnie The Pooh
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28. “One of the things I like about looking at pictures when you’re young and also meeting back with old friends you haven’t seen in a long time is, for me, it’s a glimpse of who I was.” — Lea Thompson
29. “It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
30. “Things end. But childhood memories last forever.” – Unknown
31. “It’s an insane world, but in it, there is one sanity- the loyalty of old friends.” — Stephen Boyd
32. “Childhood friendship is like a violin; the music may stop now and then, but the strings will last forever.” – Unknown
33. Some people arrive and make such a beautiful impact on your life, you can barely remember what life was like without them. -Anna Taylor
34. “Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.” — Francis Bacon
35. “We’re not friends. We’re strangers with memories shared together.”– Unknown
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36. “Childhood friendship is the most beautiful memory that can’t ever be replaced.”– Unknown
37. “Our paths may change as life goes along but the bond between childhood friends remains ever strong.”– Unknown
38. “Never forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.” – Ludwig van Beethoven
39. “We do not remember days, we remember moments.” – Cesare Pavese
40. “So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.” – Helen Keller
41. “I love those random childhood memories that make me smile no matter what’s going on in my life right now.”
42. ‘Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
43. “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
44. “One old friend is better than two new ones.” – Yiddish Proverb
45. When you meet with your old friends, you recollect some of the finest moments of your life and find yourself in a joy that has no comparison. – Syed Badiuzzaman
46. “Happiness is meeting up with childhood friends after a long time apart.” – Unknown
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47. “They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.” — Carl W. Buechner
48. “You can through life and make a new friend every year – every month practically – but there was never a substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years”. – Alexander Mccall Smith
49. “Old friends, we say, are best, when some sudden disillusionment shakes our faith in a new comrade.” – Gelett Burgess
50. “When we forget childhood friends, it is a sign we have forgotten ourselves.” – Unknown
51. 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
52. No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other’s worth. – Robert Southey
53. “In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, for in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.” — Khalil Gibran
54. What one loves in childhood stays in their heart forever.” — Hary Jo Putney
55. “Sometimes I wish I could go back to my childhood and capture all those happy memories.” — Unknown
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56. “An old friend met in a far country is like rain after a drought. – Chinese Proverb
57. “Childhood friendship is the most beautiful memory that can never be replaced.” — Unknown
58. “Every murderer is probably somebody’s old friend.” – G.K. Chesterton
59. “The happiness never leaves me whenever I am reminiscing about my childhood days. I treasure them.” — Unknown
60. When old friends get together, everything else fades to insignificance. – Robert Lynn Aspri
61. “Old friends remind us what it’s like to live with nothing to prove.” — Unknown
62. “The best childhood memories are the ones stitched together with love.” — Unknown
63. “Spend a new penny on an old friend and share an old pleasure with a new friend.” – Chinese Proverb
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64. “When you finally go back to your old hometown, you find it wasn’t the old home you missed but your childhood.” — Sam Ewing.
65. “Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes that constitute growing older.” – John Dos Passos
66. “Some days I wish I could go back to my childhood. Not to change anything, but to feel a few things twice.” — Unknown
67. There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise. – Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr
68. “Old friends are the great blessing of one’s later years… They have a memory of the same events and have the same mode of thinking.” – Horace Walpole
69. “We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.” – Letty Cottin Pogrebin
70. “If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.” — Tom Stoppard
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71. “An old friend never can be found, and nature has provided that he cannot easily be lost.” – Samuel Johnson
72. “Childhood is the best of all the seasons of life, and the longer it lasts with happy memories, the stronger the emotional stability in adulthood.” — Venugopal Acharya
73. “To reminisce with my old friends, a chance to share some memories, and play our songs again.” – Ricky Nelson
74. “With clothes the new are the best, with friends the old are the best.”
75. “You can’t make old friends. You either have them or you don’t. – Kenny Rogers
76. “The wind taught me never to forget old friends, by blowing them back to me.” – Michael Bassey Johnson
77. “Great childhoods are made of feelings of connection and positive experiences, not things.” — Unknown
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78. “One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.” – Clifton Fadiman
79. “He felt lost and alone without his old friend, though he barely recognized him anymore. He wondered if they could ever be friends again.” – Erin Hunter
80. “Old friends are like shadows, they’re beside you if you fall. Then gently ease you up again and they’re the best of all.” –
Beth Scott, JE James, Illustrator, Rhythmic Rhymes of Remembrance
81. “We meet an old friend and relish laughing about endearing times we have spent together.” Diana Lobel, Philosophies of Happiness
82. “Old friends, like parents, remember embarrassing things from your past.” Soo-Inn Tan, Thinking on the Run
83. “It’s best to have an old friend far away, than a new friend nearby that makes you question your care.” – Shanna Rodriguez
84. “Old friends are like old memories, with sweet tales of our young days.” – Robin Soo, China Unicorn Memoirs
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85. “Ten minutes with a genuine friend is better than years spent with anyone less.” – Crystal Woods
86. “I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.” – Oliver Goldsmith
87. “Childhood is a collection of life’s most precious moments.” — Unknown
88. “True friends are never apart, maybe in distance but never in heart.” – Hellen Keller
89. “Old friends remind us of who we were and who we wanted to be.”— Miriam Goodman, Reinventing Retirement
90. “There are things that I can tell my friends that I just can’t tell my family, just as far as how I’m feeling about things. My friends know me the best in a certain way. I just think old friends are really, really important.” – Jonathan Levine
91. “We meet an old friend and relish laughing about endearing times we have spent together”. — Diana Lobel, Philosophies of Happiness
92. “Even though we are now growing apart, the art in our heart still wants.”- Joey Jones
93. “I miss how close we used to be, I hate how we grown apart.”- Amy Sandas
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94. “Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare — and precious as a pearl.” – Tahar Ben Jelloun
95. “When put to the test, old friends are best.” – Wolfgang Mieder
96. “If anything, old friends are like the beating of your heart. You don’t always count each beat, and you often take it for granted, But without it…” – Bethany Turner
97. “No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other’s worth.” – Robert Southey
98. “I spent my time watching the spaces that have grown between us.” – Unknown
99. “It is an insane world, but in it, there is one sanity- the loyalty of old friends.” – Stephen Boyd
100. “Old friends don’t only know the real you, they prefer it.” – Martha Bolton
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101. “Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.” – Washington Irving
102. “A part of you has grown in me, together forever we shall be, never apart, maybe in distance, but not in heart.” – Hakan Massoud Nawabi
103. “To be with old friends is very warming and comforting.” – Ian Ziering
104. “Though we drifted apart in distance I still think of you as being right here. And although we have many new friends, it is our friendship that means the most to me.” – Unknown
105. “True friends stay with you no matter the distance or time that separates you from them.” – Lance Reynald
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106. “Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.” – Washington Irving
107. The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.” – Elizabeth Foley
108. “True friends are never apart, maybe in distance but never in heart.” – Unknown
109. “Old friends, like family, are a valuable asset. You have a shared past as well as affection, trust, and understanding.” –
Philip Selby, Live Better, Live Longer
110. “One should not forsake old friends for new, because the old friends, having already proven their caliber, are more trustworthy.” – G. Llewellyn Watson
111. “Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends.” – Cindy Lew
112. “I don’t cry because we’ve been separated by distance, and for a matter of years. Why? Because for as long as we share the same sky and breathe the same air, we’re still together.” – Donna Lynn Hope
113. “We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere.” – Tim McGraw
114. “Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.” – John Evelyn
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115. “Old stories are like old friends. You have to visit them from time to time.” – George R.R. Martin
116. “True friendship resists time, distance, and silence.” – Isabel Allende
117 “There is no distance too far between friends, for friendship gives wings to the heart.” – Unknown
118. “It simply means that sometimes when people grow, they grow apart.”- Scott Neustadter
119. “There are friendships imprinted in our hearts that will never be diminished by time and distance.” – Dodinsky
120. “The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.” – Elisabeth Foley
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