Old Familiar Quotes

24 quotes by 19 authors

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. — Charles Lamb
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow. — Lin Yutang
• 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
• 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
• 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:

• 3 Old Familiar Quotes by Charles Lamb
• 2 Old Familiar Quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• 2 Old Familiar Quotes by Nine Inch Nails
• 2 Old Familiar Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
• 1 Old Familiar Quote by Lin Yutang
• 1 Old Familiar Quote by Theodore Roosevelt
• 1 Old Familiar Quote by Wilson Rawls
• 1 Old Familiar Quote by Lupe Fiasco
• 1 Old Familiar Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
• 1 Old Familiar Quote by Peter Kreeft
• 1 Old Familiar Quote by Orson Scott Card
• 1 Old Familiar Quote by Karen Russell
• 1 Old Familiar Quote by Dan Millman
• 1 Old Familiar Quote by Gay Hendricks
• 1 Old Familiar Quote by Teresa de la Parra
• 1 Old Familiar Quote by Heinrich Heine
• 1 Old Familiar Quote by J R Ward
• 1 Old Familiar Quote by Robert Benchley
• 1 Old Familiar Quote by Jane Smiley