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Quotes About Resemblance

Hope she's not getting Gloria." "Why?" "She kinda looks like a white version of me," Jake said. "Only with a heavier beard.
~ Harlan Coben
The moon, like a gardenia in the night's button-hole—but no! why should a writer never be able to mention the moon without likening her to something else—usually something to which she bears not the faintest resemblance?... The moon, looking like nothing whatsoever but herself, was engaged in her old and futile endeavour to mark the hours correctly on the sun-dial at the centre of the lawn.
~ Max Beerbohm
Crap. I thought that picture was you.' He pointed. 'That's not me. That's my mother,' Mal said with a sigh. 'Woah, you really do look like her, you know,' Jay said. 'You two could be twins,' Evie agreed. 'That, my friends, is called genetics,' Carlos said with a smile.
~ Melissa de la Cruz
It helped that Amelia looked more like her mother's side of the family, and it was startling to see how easy it was to pass.
~ Melissa de la Cruz
Aimer et mourir Au pays qui te ressemble
~ Baudelaire Charles
trained my son to be a warrior, and I was proud of him, but Stiorra puzzled me. She was my youngest, and it hurt to look at her because she so resembled her dead mother; she was tall and lithe and had her mother's long face, the same black hair, the same dark eyes, and the same grave expression that could light into beauty with a smile. I did not know her well because I had
~ Bernard Cornwell
It has been argued that we have reason to know that the future will resemble the past, because what was the future has constantly become the past, and has always been found to resemble the past, so that we really have experience of the future, namely of times which were formerly future, which we may call past futures.
~ Bertrand Russell
To begin with the logical objection: 'When we have found a resemblance among several objects,' Hume says, 'we apply the same name to all of them.' Every nominalist would agree. But in fact a common name, such as 'cat,' is just as unreal as the universal CAT is. The nominalist solution of the problem of universals thus fails through being insufficiently drastic in the application of its own principles; it mistakenly applies these principles only to 'things,' and not also to words.
~ Bertrand Russell
I've tried very hard and I've never found any resemblance between the people I know and the people in my novels.
~ Francoise Sagan
Call it a coincidence, but my mother used to feel that I bear some resemblance to Poonam Dhillon.
~ Krystle D'Souza
I resemble the father I once hated.
~ Niki de St. Phalle
I want my family to resemble the family I came from.
~ Katherine Heigl
The only person that anybody's ever said I resemble is a young Elvis. It used to happen a lot more when I was younger, and more when I don't wear a hat.
~ Jason Aldean
Since his breakout role in 'Call Me By Your Name,' Chalamet has been described as a young Leonardo DeCaprio and James Dean. Not only does Chalamet resemble my son when he was younger, but he embodies his spirit.
~ David Sheff
It is one of the sternest judgments confronting a human being after death that insofar as he is himself evil, he can see only what resembles himself because he can reproduce in his own being only the physiognomy of other evil people.
~ Rudolf Steiner
If I can't cast Amitabh Bachchan because he's over 65, should I cast Abhishek Bachchan instead just because he resembles him and has a similar name?
~ Suhasini Mulay
I look a lot like my mom. I'm the only one of my siblings with red hair, and she had bright red hair. I always have felt incredibly connected to her.
~ Ethan Slater
My mum and I are, in many ways, quite similar. We're both creative, gregarious, and energetic.
~ Hugh Jackman
Me and the Rock do look a lot alike, and we're a similar build - that was a joke, by the way.
~ Alex Wolff
She kind of reminds one of Helen. There's something very similar about Elizabeth Perkins.
~ Paul Reiser
Mary and I look eerily similar but other than that, the differences are pretty much night and day.
~ Nikki Cox
The ways in which things are superficially similar but also distinct is interesting to me.
~ Richard Ford
For years, friends in Springfield, Missouri, have remarked on the physical resemblance between Brad Pitt and his only brother, Doug. But the two share a deeper similarity: their commitment to charitable causes.
~ Kate Klise
Her name was Mary, and there ends any resemblance to the mother of our Lord.
~ Sue Monk Kidd