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Quotes About Mimicry

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
~ James Baldwin
Emulate greatness to be great.
~ Debasish Mridha
The mimicry of passion is the most intolerable of all poses.
~ Oscar Wilde, Reviews
Children imitate their parents, employees their managers.
~ Amit Kalantri
Jesus is to God as we must be to Jesus.
~ William Barclay
The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal the good one really does.
~ William Blake
IF YOU WANT A DOG TO STOP KISSING YOU, turn your head away silently like another dog. —Jack Kerouac Some of the Dharma
~ William Lashner
IF YOU WANT A DOG TO STOP KISSING YOU, turn your head away silently like another dog.
~ William Lashner
n medieval Europe, a new slave would place his head under his master's arm, and have a strap placed around his neck, in imitation of a sheep or cow, and in eighteenth-century Britain, goldsmiths advertised silver padlocks "For blacks or dogs.
~ David Livingstone Smith
Only God creates. The rest of us just copy.
~ Michelangelo
The devil is God's ape!
~ Martin Luther
God must have loved the People in Power, for he made them so very like their own image of him.
~ Kenneth Patchen
Satan can imitate God, but he cannot duplicate Him - God is the only One who can deliver us from our pain and suffering.
~ David Jeremiah
We were made for good works (cf. Phil. 1:11) to the glory and praise of our Maker, and to imitate God as far as might be.
~ Gregory of Nazianzus
We should be a mirror of being: we are God in miniature.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Nature, so far as in her lies, imitates God.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
God doesn't act like the Church. No, instead, the Church must act like God.
~ Kim Clement
If what you want to do is make good art, decide whats good and try to imitate it.
~ Robert Pinsky
In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.
~ June Jordan
I'm not a very good impersonator, my friends maybe, but not famous people.
~ Diane Kruger
He did a very good impression of a stone column.
~ Shannon Hale
I'm not very good at impersonations.
~ Will Forte
History never exactly repeats itself, but it does some rather good impressions.
~ John Dean
If citizens followed their leaders' example throughout history, the human race would have died out centuries ago.
~ Heather Brewer