Family Resemblance Sayings

#1. Any human being is really good at certain things. The problem is that the things you're good at come naturally. And since most people are pretty modest instead of an arrogant S.O.B. like me, what comes naturally, you don't see as a special skill. It's just you. It's what you've always done.

Stephen Jay Gould

#2. Would men but generously snap our chains, and be content with rational fellowship instead of slavish obedience, they would find us more observant daughters, more affectionate sisters, more faithful wives, more reasonable mothers - in a word, better citizens

Mary Wollstonecraft

#3. I swear on Peter Stuyvesant's peg leg that the country that became the U.S. bears a closer family resemblance to the devil-may-care merchants of New Amsterdam than it does to Boston's communitarian English majors.

Sarah Vowell

#4. The Christian life is to live all of your life in the presence of God.

R.C. Sproul

#5. A family is a little world within doors; the miniature resemblance of the great worls without

Henry James

#6. Now I see some family resemblance. I was starting to wonder if Jill was adopted, but you two kind of look like each other."
"So does our mailman back in North Dakota," said Adrian.

Richelle Mead

#7. Christ on a cracker. You raped Achilles!

P.C. Cast

#8. It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we all take our looks; we still share genes around, and the resemblance of the enzymes of grasses to those of whales is in fact a family resemblance.

Lewis Thomas

#9. Death ... obliterates family resemblance as it does personality: there is no affinity between the living and the dead.

P.D. James

#10. You should never ask God to do what He has said He's already done, and you should never ask God to do what He has told you to do.

T.L. Osborn

#11. I am a socially awkward mandork. (Nick)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#12. True revolution comes from true revulsion; when things get bad enough the kitten will kill the lion.

Charles Bukowski

#13. Do others see something of Christ in your life? Do they see a "family resemblance" to Him by the way you live?

Billy Graham

#14. The experience of bliss will give you an insight into the very phenomenon of beauty. Not only does it make you beautiful, it suddenly transforms the whole world. The whole world becomes beautiful because the world reflects you, it is a mirror.

Rajneesh

#15. Young people are fascinated with the idea of love, maybe because they haven't experienced it. The older you get, the more jaded you become with this, like, mystical love thing. It's not as exciting because it's not unknown.

Nikki Reed

#16. The look of success, when it is worn a certain way, would infuriate a jackass.

Albert Camus

#17. They only think they think. No total vision, total system, merely schemes with a vague family resemblance, no more identity than bridges and, say, spiderwebs. But they rush across chasms on spiderwebs, and sometimes they make it, and that, they think, settles that!

John Gardner

#18. For remember that in general we don't use language according to strict rules
it hasn't been taught to us by means of strict rules, either. We, in our discussions on the other hand, constantly compare language with a calculus preceding to exact rules.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#19. A hack writer who would not have been considered fourth rate in Europe.
(on Mark Twain)

William Faulkner

#20. I don't know Ed Miliband as a person particularly well.

Nicola Sturgeon

#21. The
struggle to grow makes the vine work harder, extending its
roots and absorbing elements that make it produce a
more interesting fruit.

Christie Ridgway

#22. While he bore no real resemblance to anyone in my family, his features were a collection of my mother's and father's best attributes, with a few of Gregory Peck's thrown in.

Lisa Lutz

#23. Are you sure that we're related?" Lydia asked. "I see no resemblance at all.

Sarah Price