Closest Quotes

Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

So we are disappointed that some of our closest allies, including Canada, have not agreed with us on the urgent need for this military action against Iraq.

Southern barbecue is the closest thing we have in the U.S. to Europe's wines or cheeses; drive a hundred miles and the barbecue changes.

Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection; this arises from the reciprocal action of the laws of heredity and adaptation.

Closest to the truth are those who deal lightly with it because they know it is inexhaustible.

A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have lost seven or eight of my closest.

I think my family and closest friends are learning about my need to withdraw, and I am learning how to restore and store my energy to both serve the community to the best of my ability and to serve my writer's heart.

No one has a closest friend in Hollywood.

Even my closest friend said I was finished, but I think I may be a little different from the others.

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.

It was the closest to purgatory that I've ever experienced while I've been living.

There are lots of things which I would love to tell him, but in some way, I also feel that I lost the person closest to me. And I got a second chance to live. So in a way I feel that I live for both of us... and I will do my best.

I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation.

Traits like humility, courage, and empathy are easily overlooked - but it's immensely important to find them in your closest relationships.