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Quotes About Resemblance

When I played Leonardo DiCaprio's mother, they liked that Leo had very hooded eyes and a rounded nose with a ball. They said, They look like they could be mother and son.
~ Ellen Barkin
Mathematicians of probability give that a fancy name: ergodicity. It means, roughly, that (under certain conditions) very long sample paths would end up resembling each other. The properties of a very, very long sample path would be similar to the Monte Carlo properties of an average of shorter ones.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
the points somewhat resemble those goldfish-shaped cocktail crackers.
~ Charles C. Mann
When I look in the mirror, I see my late mother: I have her nose, her dark eyes - I call them chocolate eyes - I have her colouring, and my hair is greying the same way, although I use colour and she didn't.
~ Marie Osmond
Day after day with them, I see more and more of my parents in me. I see where all my quirks come from. I see my future.
~ Roxane Gay
As Søren Kierkegaard says in the opening pages of The Sickness unto Death (the sickness in question is despair): "Everything essentially Christian must have in its presentation a resemblance to the way a physician speaks at the sickbed.
~ Kevin J. Vanhoozer
Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
~ Khalil Gibran
Do you believe in Jesus? Jesse looks at me so brown-eyed it hurts.He nods."I do," he says. I sit up. "I think you look like him.
~ Carol Lynch Williams
Jesus!" Luke exclaimed. "Actually, it's just me," said Simon. "Although I've been told the resemblance is startling.
~ Cassandra Clare
My son looks more like George Harrison than I do.
~ George Harrison
The Mind, that Ocean where each kind Does streight its own resemblance find; Yet it creates, transcending these, Far other Worlds, and other Seas; Annihilating all that's made To a green Thought in a green Shade. Andrew Marvell The Garden
~ George Monbiot
In Sansa's dreams, her children looked just like the brothers she had lost. Sometimes there was even a girl who looked like Arya.
~ George R.R. Martin
It is precisely resemblance that reconciles habit and novelty, balancing them out, fusing them at some indefinite point, acting as their horizon line.
~ Georges Rodenbach
Like father, like son.
~ Latin proverb
All cases are unique and very similar to others.
~ T. S. Eliot
Admiration: Our polite recognition of another man's resemblance to ourselves.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things which differ and the difference of things which are alike.
~ Madame de Stael
She looked exactly like the little girl she had been.
~ Jack Kerouac
I pretty much look like an identical twin of my mom.
~ Odell Beckham, Jr.
I was really close with Rob Ryan, so I know that Rex, being his twin, would be very similar to him.
~ Nnamdi Asomugha
What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
The supposition that the future resembles the past, is not founded on arguments of any kind, but is derived entirely from habit.
~ David Hume
If the moon smiled, she would resemble you. You leave the same impression Of something beautiful, but annihilating.
~ Sylvia Plath
Ja wszystkim kogo? przypominam. ?ci?lej mówi?c, ka?demu kogo? innego przypominam. To tak, jakby mnie w ogóle nie by?o. Mnie pojedynczego, indywidualnego, z w?asnym niepowtarzalnym kodem genetycznym.
~ Tadeusz Konwicki