Old Familiar Quotes
24 quotes by 19 authors
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Original minds are not distinguished by being the first to see a new thing, but instead by seeing the old, familiar thing that is over-looked…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Give me the old familiar world, post-office and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does not know when…
— Henry David Thoreau
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God calls us, just as he called Abraham, away from the security we knew, out of our old, familiar, little room, down the ladder of…
— Peter Kreeft
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You can't write a novel all at once, any more than you can swallow a whale in one gulp. You do have to break it…
— Orson Scott Card
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Any place, then, can become a cemetery. All it takes is your body. It's not fair, I think, and I get this petulant wish for…
— Karen Russell
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Unless the desire to change remains strong, body and mind tend to return to old, familiar patterns. It takes time-from three to six months-for old…
— Dan Millman
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All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.
— Charles Lamb
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Each of us has an inner thermostat setting that determines how much love, success, and creativity we allow ourselves to enjoy. When we exceed out…
— Gay Hendricks
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Memories do not change, and change is the law of existence. If our dead, the closest, the most beloved, were to return to us after…
— Teresa de la Parra
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Give me the old familiar walk, postoffice and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does not know when…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Jews who long have drifted from the faith of their fathers... are stirred in their inmost parts when the old, familiar Passover sounds chance to…
— Heinrich Heine
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Blay said yet again, that old, familiar voice cutting through all of those years of rejection and judgment, giving him not just a rope of…
— J R Ward
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There is probably no moment more appalling than that in which the tongue comes suddenly upon the ragged edge of a space from which the…
— Robert Benchley
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How some they have died, and some they have left me, And some are taken from me; all are departed; All, all are gone, the…
— Charles Lamb
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I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old…
— Charles Lamb
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Somehow, knowing that Alzheimer's is coming mocks all one's aspirations - to tell stories, to think through certain issues as only a novel can do,…
— Jane Smiley
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No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.
— Lin Yutang
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I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play, And wild and sweet The words repeat Of peace on earth, good-will to…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Let the watchwords of all our people be the old familiar watchwords of honesty, decency, fair-dealing, and commonsense."... "We must treat each man on his…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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It's strange indeed how memories can lie dormant in a man's mind for so many years. Yet those memories can be awakened and brought forth…
— Wilson Rawls
Who Wrote These Old Familiar Quotes
19 authors contributed a total of 24 Old Familiar Quotes as follows: