True Companions/Quotes

""One for all and all for one!""

- The Three Musketeers

"Simon: Captain, why did you come back for us? Mal: You're on my crew. Simon: Yeah, but you don't even like me. Why'd you come back? Mal: You're on my crew. Why are we still talking about this?"

- Firefly

""Jeremy. On this starship.... no one is alone. No one.""

- Captain Picard, Star Trek: The Next Generation

""This is better than a family. No one around here asks me for my damn bone marrow.""

- Tracy Jordan, Thirty Rock

""Ohana means family. Family means nobody gets left behind, or forgotten.""

- Lilo, Lilo and Stitch

""When your teammate's in trouble, you go. Whether they ask or not, you go!""

- Rhino, Bolt

""We few, we happy few, we band of brothers... for he to-day that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother.""

- Henry V

""This is my family. I found it all on my own. It is little, and broken. But it is still good. Yeah. Still good.""

- Stitch, Lilo and Stitch

""If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he, and I was I.""

- Michel de Montaigne

""We're all still inextricably entangled - Split Enz isn't just something you can walk away from""

- Noel Crombie, Stranger Than Fiction: The Life and Times of Split Enz

""This is my family. More even than my own family.""

- Benjamin "Lefty" Ruggiero, Donnie Brasco, on his family, The Family.

""We're just one big family and, when you've been to a few domestic disputes, Littlebottom, I can assure you that you'll see the resemblance.""

- Vimes, Feet of Clay

""A true companion is loving all the time, and is a brother that is born for when there is distress.""

- The Bible

"Satoko: We're here for you! We're like a family of friends! Keiichi: A family of friends, huh? I like how that sounds."

- Higurashi no Naku Koro ni

"Vita: "Her allies?" Fate: "No. Her friends.""

- Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's

"Shane: I can't ask you to do this for me. Vic: I'm offering."

- The Shield

""When I go home, some people are gonna ask me, 'Hoot, why do you do it? You some kind of war junkie?' I won't say a goddamn word. Why? They won't understand....won't understand why we do it. They won't understand that it's about the men next to you. That's it....that's all it is.""

- Hoot, Black Hawk Down

""I've had a dream too. It's about singing and dancing and making people happy. That's the kinda dream that gets better the more people you share it with. And I found a whole bunch of friends who all have the same dream. And it kinda makes us like a family.""

- Kermit, The Muppet Movie

""Love. Love is the key. Love and family. For what are night and day, the sun, the moon, the stars without love, and those you love around you? What could be more hollow than to die alone, unloved?""

- The Proposition

"Rule one: you fuck with me, you die. No questions, no exceptions, no second chances....

Rule three: you fuck with any of my friends, you fuck with me. When in doubt, see Rule One."

- Caine, The Acts of Caine

"Tigger: "You mean... you guys are my family?" Pooh: "I'm afraid it's all we have to offer." Tigger: "Well... of course not. Because there's nothing better than the best!""

- The Tigger Movie

""Don't you understand why we came with you? Isn't it because we're friends?! Yugi, with friends... Allowing themselves to like themselves, that's why they want to be together. If you're in pain or suffering, then give some to me! That's what being a friend is about!""

- Jounouchi Katsuya, Yu-Gi-Oh!

""You've always protected us. But you still don't understand that we looked out for you, too! We watched your back while you watched ours. And we believed in you the same way you believed in us! Just like you protected us... We want to protect you.""

- Final Fantasy IX, the You Are Not Alone scene

""The hardest thing to do is to stick together. Mates, family, marriage, business, bands. It's like resisting gravity... it's like King Canute trying to talk back the tide. But you can, and we have, and we will turn the world around... the alternative is too predictable: you empty your life of the people you need the most.""

- Bono

"Dave: "They tried to make me talk. I gave them nothing." Frank: "You don't know me, you don't owe me anything. I've brought you nothing but trouble. Why were you ready to die for me? " Dave: "Because you're one of us. You're family.""

- The Punisher

""I learned something from Nandi. Not just from what happened, but from her. The family she made… the strength of her love for them, it’s what kept them together. When you live with that kind of strength, you get tied to it. You can’t break away and you would never want to.""

- Inara, Firefly

""Not TV-perfect family with pearly white smiles and "very special episode" problems solved in an hour or half...Family that grates your nerves because they're always there, and can be relied on in a pinch because they're always there...Where you're either in on the joke or the butt of it. Family that fights and screams and kind of hates a little, then fights by your side and wraps your bleeding knuckles and loves despite themself or yourself.""

- Guy Gardner, Green Lantern Fan Fic

"Billy (after the team has just broken him and Teddy out of Avengers Tower): You guys all showed up to rescue me? Kate: We're family. We stick together no matter what scary, unstoppable powers you may have. Eli: Plus, if you do have scary, unstoppable powers, we're thinking we should probably be on your side."

- YoungAvengers: The Children's Crusade

"And if you ask me, you know that it's true There is not a thing that I wouldn't do I'd follow you to the ends of the earth That's how much I think our friendship is worth Maybe now you have figured it out That's what bein' a friend is about"

- MOTHER 1, "Bein' Friends"

"I'll be there for you When the rain starts to pour I'll be there for you Like I've been there before I'll be there for you 'Cuz you're there for me too..."

- The Rembrandts, "Ill Be there for you", as heard on Friends

""Could one judge a man by his company? Could she judge Miles that way? Ivan was charming and funny, Lady Alys fine and formidable, Illyan, despite his sinister history, strangely kind. Miles’s clone brother Mark, for all his bitter bite, seemed a brother in truth. Kareen Koudelka was pure delight. The Vorbrettens, the rest of the Koudelka clan, Duv Galeni, Tsipis, Ma Kosti, Pym, even Enrique... Miles seemed to collect friends of wit and distinction and extraordinary ability around himself as casually and unselfconsciously as a comet trailed its banner of light.""

- A Civil Campaign

""They say the family of the 21st century is made up of friends, not relatives. If that's true, you're the best auntie I've ever had!""

- Tim, Spaced

""The experience we shared--all of us--have bound us together in a way that defies understanding... But this bond we share can be felt, but not seen. This is faith.

So, I do not have faith in Ryudo. I have faith in our bond. I have faith in our hearts, for they are one.""

- Elena, Grandia II epilogue

""Forever united as one! Together, the battles are won! Through us let your spirit evolve! (If we're all for one world, there's a world for us all!) If we're all for one world, there's a world... for us all!""

- Digimon Frontier dub theme

""With all due respect admiral, I didn't represent one of your people. I represented one of mine.""

- Commander Shepard, Mass Effect 2

"Shaman: Grunt - who is your krantt? Your allies willing to kill and die on your behalf? Shepard: How is a candidate tested if he brings backup on his Rite of Passage? Shaman: Not every krogan can be the strongest warrior, but each must inspire his peers to battle at his side. If the ones who know you best can find nothing worthy in you, you should wander the wastes and die alone before you weaken my clan. Shepard: (Paragon) We stand with Grunt, as shipmates and comrades. / (Renegade) Grunt will strengthen Clan Urdnot. Name our target, and it will die."

- Mass Effect 2

"Shepard: You two have been with me longer than most. You believed in me when nobody else did. Thanks. Tali: We'll finish this the way we started it ... together. Garrus: Damn right!"

- Mass Effect 3

"This war has brought us pain and suffering and loss. But it's also brought us together, as soldiers, allies, friends. This bond that ties us together is something the Reapers will never understand. It's more powerful than any weapon. Stronger than any ship. It can't be taken or destroyed."

- Commander Shepard, Mass Effect 3

""But I think in your case, maybe it's better to find that sense of family among people who are good then it is to try to find a sense of good inside your family.""

- Roy, Order of the Stick

""But from now on, we fight as a Clan. Now warrior will go into battle alone. Where one fights, we all fight!""

- Hailstar, Warrior Cats

""Don't they understand that we're a family? That that's why this works, is because we're a family. Do they even care?!""

- Garcia, in response to, Criminal Minds, "JJ"