Quotes About Resemblance

I look more like Jesse Lee Sofer than my real brother.

He has a head, two arms, two legs, just as I.

I'm easy to look like, so there are lots and lots of Dolly look-alikes.

All the mail that I got, half of it said, 'You looked exactly like my brother,' or, 'You look exactly like so-and-so.'

My word, he's ugly!' Howl said. 'Chip off the old block.

but anything overtly religious filled him with a pagan alarm; and I believe that like Pliny, whom he resembled in so many respects, he secretly thought it to be a degenerate cult carried to extravagant lengths.

If people have no likeness to the Father in heaven, it is pointless to talk of their being His children.

You look just like a guy I saw on a wanted poster, Mr. Donovan," the agent said, staring at Reece with bright, unflinching eyes.

metaphor (n) a figure of speech that says that one thing is another different thing as a way to compare the two and note their similarities; for example: "my mother is a battleship" or "school was a rollercoaster

Like father like son, like mother like daughter!

At most, a certain resemblance might have been observed.

You know the way people begin to look like their dogs? Well, we're beginning to look like each other.

Once when I was young, I asked what mortals looked like. My father said, "You may say that they are shaped like us, but only as the worm is shaped like the whale.

You have the same smile, the same shaped eyes, the same way of tilting your head to listen, the same stubborn streak, the same common sense. Lots of things about you and him are the same.

Memory, instead of being a duplicate, always present before one's eyes, of the various events of one's life, is rather a void from which at odd moments a chance resemblance enables ones to resuscitate dead recollections, but even then, there are innumerable little details which have not fallen into that potential reservoir of memory, and which will remain for ever unverifiable.

There is nothing like desire for obstructing any resemblance between what one says and what one has on one's mind.

There is a degree of resemblance between the women we love at different times; and this resemblance, though it devolves, derives from the unchanging nature of our own temperament, which is what selects them, by ruling out all those who are not likely to be both opposite and complementary to us, who cannot be relied on, that is, to gratify our sensuality and wound our heart. Such women are a product of our temperament, an inverted image or projection, a negative of our sensitivity.

It was with an unusual intensity of pleasure, a pleasure destined to have a lasting effect on him, that Swann remarked Odette's resemblance to the Zipporah of that Alessandro de Mariano to whom more people willingly give his popular surname, Botticelli, now that it suggests not so much the actual work of the Master as that false and banal conception of it which has of late obtained common currency.

Children do take after their parents, of course. But the rearrangement of the inherited qualities and defects is done so strangely that only one of a pair of qualities which seemed inseparable in a parent may turn up in the child; and it may be blended with a defect of the other parent that had once seemed incompatible with it.

One of John's favorite quotes was from Meister Eckhart: Nothing in the universe resembles God more than silence.

Are cats strange animals or do they so resemble us that we find them curious as we do monkeys?

Los seres humanos tienen a veces más ponzoña que las serpientes.

The problem for me is that I look like so many people in my family, so I can't really see anything. Except I could say that I look rather like my father without his mustache.

A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.