Familiar Faces Quotes:

I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

- Charles Lamb

source: "The Old Familiar Faces" l. 1 (1798)

topic: School, Childhood, Gone, Familiar Faces, Familiar Things

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 old familiar faces.

- Charles Lamb

topic: Taken, Departed, Gone, Familiar Faces

It always feels good to come back here. I love New York... it's just nice to see a lot of familiar faces.

- Latrell Sprewell

topic: New York, Nice, Feel Good, Familiar Faces

The place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself. I was a child then, I had no idea what the world would be like. I wished to trust myself on the waters and the sea. Everything was romantic in my imagination. The woods were peopled by the mysterious good folk. The Lords and Ladies of the last century walked with me along the overgrown paths, and picked the old fashioned flowers among the box and rose hedges of the garden.

- Beatrix Potter

topic: Children, Growing Up, Flower, Familiar Faces, Lords And Ladies

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 fresh and new, just by something you've seen, or something you've heard, or the sight of an old familiar face.

- Wilson Rawls

source: Wilson Rawls (2011). “Where the Red Fern Grows”, p.3, Laurel Leaf

topic: Memories, Lying, Men, Dormant, Familiar Faces

Down in the deep, up in the sky , I see them always, far or nigh, And I shall see them till I die The old familiar faces.

- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

source: "Thirty Years: Being Poems New and Old" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, ("Magnus and Morna"), 1880.

topic: Sky, Faces, Familiar, Familiar Faces

Isn't it fascinating how long a few minutes seem when you are completely alone with not a familiar face in sight?

- Kirby Larson

topic: Sight, Long, Faces, Familiar Faces

It is very hard to stay alive just for your own sake. It is very hard to stare into day after day without another familiar face staring back. It turns your heart into a purposeless muscle.

- David Levithan

topic: Heart, Alive, Sake, Familiar Faces

If any person wants to see clearly just how much she has changed - whether for better or worse - let her revisit after some lapse of time any place where she has ones lived. She will meet her former self at every turn, with every familiar face, in every old recollection ... She will see how much she has gained in some respects, how much she has lost - irretrievably lost - in others.

- Lucy Maud Montgomery

topic: Self, Lapses, Want, Familiar Faces

I really want to bring the message of love that is Islam to people; bring something new to that familiar face.

- Youssou N'Dour

topic: People, Islam, Want, Familiar Faces

You think, eventually, that nothing can disturb you and that your nerves are impregnable. Yet, looking down at that familiar face, I realized that death is something to which we never become calloused.

- Eliot Ness

topic: Thinking, Nerves, Faces, Familiar Faces

Sometimes I think I am going mad. I live for days in the mystery and tears of things so that the commonest object, the most familiar face- even my own- become ghostly, unreal, enigmatic. I get into an attitude of almost total scepticism, nescience, solipsism, in a world of dumb, sphinx-like things that cannot explain themselves. The discovery of how I am situated- a sentient being on a globe in space overshadows me. I wish I were just nothing.

- W.N.P. Barbellion

source: W. N. P. Barbellion (1919). “The Journal of a Disappointed Man”

topic: Attitude, Thinking, Discovery, Solipsism, Familiar Faces

Twenty years is, after all, a long time. We are not the same people we were. Old friends, lovers, even family members: they are strangers who happen to wear a familiar face. We have no right to claim to know anyone after such a distance.

- Graham Joyce

source: Graham Joyce (2012). “Some Kind of Fairy Tale”, p.248, Hachette UK

topic: Distance, Years, Long, Familiar Faces

The "problem" is that Comic-Con is so damned successful. People who are there seem to have a wonderful time. The very size of it makes it exciting. Wherever you look, there's something exciting. The attendees are always looking around for a familiar face. It's either 'There's a movie star!' Or, 'There's a TV star!' Or, 'There's the guy who drew the Green Lantern!' It means so much to the fans. It makes them feel like they're where it's happening. It's like Woodstock.

- Stan Lee

topic: Stars, Mean, Successful, Comic Con, Woodstock

Father and Mother had told their own little lies very well, and I realized immediately that the Gerrisens didn't know a thing. And yet, my realization that they didn't know what I'd been through was like a cold shower for just a moment. Here I was looking at the first really familiar faces I'd seen in over a year, and they acted as though I'd merely been on vacation.

- Diet Eman

topic: Mother, Lying, Father, Familiar Faces

The only real reason for self-referencing is the fun factor. It's fun for the writer, getting little peeks at what old characters might be up to. And it's fun for readers to spot a familiar face, or pick up on a made-up book title or something from an earlier story. I don't know that it does -- or even should -- contribute to the story in hand being any better than it would have been without it.

- Charles de Lint

topic: Fun, Real, Book, Referencing, Familiar Faces

..in the harshest days of leaf-bare clanmate turns upon clanmate danger lurks behind familiar faces and one more warrior may be lost forever

- Erin Hunter

topic: Warrior, Forever, May, Familiar Faces

The stars are forth, the moon above the tops Of the snow-shining mountains--beautiful! I linger yet with nature, for the night Hath been to me a more familiar face Than that of man, and in her starry shade Of dim and solitary loveliness I learned the language of another world.

- Lord Byron

source: 'Manfred' (1817) act 3, sc. 4, l. 2

topic: Beautiful, Stars, Moon, Familiar Faces

You never forget about things you've done that you know you shouldn't have done. They hang around your mind, linger like a thief casing a joint for a future job. You see them there, dramatically lurking nearby in striped monochrome, leaping behind postboxes as soon as your head whips around to confront them. Or it's a familiar face in a crowd that you glimpse but then lose sight of. An annoying Where's Wally? forever locked away and hidden in every thought in your conscience. The bad thing that you did, always there to let you know.

- Cecelia Ahern

source: Cecelia Ahern (2011). “The Time of My Life”, p.2, HarperCollins UK

topic: Jobs, Sight, Forever, Monochrome, Familiar Faces

I walked around Soho's street for over an hour, running into familiar faces but never once stopping to chat. It was then that I felt something discomforting and comforting all at once. I didn't want to be here, in this city, anymore.

- Tablo

topic: Running, Cities, Comforting, Soho, Familiar Faces