Quotes About Resemblance

People like to compare something to something that they know. Even with Chris Rock, they say he's like Richard Pryor or Eddie Murphy.

They say the day you lose your parents, you start to look like them.

Once more the legend flourished that the number of years lived constitutes some kind of temperamental bond, so that people of the same age are many minds with but a single thought, bearing one to another a close resemblance. The young were commented on as if they were some new and just discovered species of animal life, with special qualities and habits which repaid investigation.

He placed me in a straight chair against the wall, brought me an ashtray, sat at his desk with his back to the window. He was quick in movement, very still in repose. His bald scalp and watchful eyes made him resemble a lizard waiting for a fly to expose itself.

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

Bu k?z? nedense kendime pek yak?n bulmu?tum, içinden geçenleri söyleyememek, en kuvvetli, en derin, en güzel taraflar?n? müthi? bir k?skançl?k ve itimats?zl?kla saklamak cihetinden onu kendi­me benzetiyordum.

If a metaphor says A is B and a simile says A is like B, then an analogy says A is to B as C is to D.

Heaven, for the Presbyterians, must resemble a banking establishment, with each soul tagged and docketed, and placed in the appropriate pigeonhole.

SCARLETT'S CHILD WAS A GIRL, a small bald-headed mite, ugly as a hairless monkey and absurdly like Frank.

Vi amo, Rossella, perché ci somigliamo tanto; rinnegati, tutti e due, e profondamente egoisti. A nessuno di noi due importa che il mondo vada in rovina, purché noi ci salviamo.

The apple never falls far from the tree.

It's all about aesthetics, morality and aesthetics are completely similar.

Rhosh, remember the being's skin, smooth, dark brown skin, like this one's skin, and the being's hair. The hair was the same, thick like this and with loose curls and the very same golden streak in it, only broader and on the right side of the head.

Her narrow oval face was so like his and yet so not. He had never been so divorced from feeling, never so abstract in his anger as she was now.

With his flowing hair, he much resembled the Vampire Lestat. He is taller than Lestat, but he has the same lithe build, the same very blue eyes and a muscular strength to him, and a squareness of face which is almost pretty.

It was as familiar to me as a song I'd been hearing my whole life, covered by various people but the basic tune the same.

Kenneth Branagh. There was a time in my life when people would tell me constantly that I look like him. I could do a lot worse than that.

He looks like me." Then he added darkly, if not logically, "And he'd better stop doing it if he knows what's good for him!

Like will to like.

how he was different from her, but the same too.

Rien noticed the sameness in the shape of their features. Though Percival's face was squarer, and Tristen's was long, they were both thin and tall, with deep-set eyes. His nose wandered, hers was incongruously pert. Nevertheless, Rien thought the resemblance would have been striking if Perceval still had her hair, and if Tristen's was pigmented rather than wooly and white and if the line of his jaw wasn't concealed by his beard.

He looked so terribly young, a slender boy with a boy's narrow shoulders and his father's, green, green eyes.

My braid was silver-black where his is like winter butter, but his eyes are gray as mine and as full of starlight.

The Greek word for "figure" in this verse means "type," and in the scriptural sense of that term a type consists of something more than a casual resemblance between two things or an incidental parallel. There is a designed likeness, the one being divinely intended to show forth the other.