Friendly Faces Quotes:

To make the world a friendly place, one must show it a friendly face.

- James Whitcomb Riley

topic: Friendly, World, Faces, Friendly Faces

The world is full of monsters with friendly faces.

- Heather Brewer

source: Heather Brewer (2013). “Eighth Grade Bites #1: The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod”, p.82, Penguin

topic: Friendly, Monsters, World, Friendly Faces

For once I've met somebody, the years cannot erase... The memory of a pleasant word or of a friendly face...

- Helen Steiner Rice

source: "Christmas Blessings".

topic: Friendly Faces

Well I know the secret places, And the nests in hedge and tree; At what doors are friendly faces, In what hearts are thoughts of me.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Heart, Doors, Tree, Friendly Faces, Secret Places

I turn around from the window and for the first time I see him... It is Richard, smiling at my surprise. I run to him, without thinking what I am doing. I run to the first friendly face that I have seen since Christmas, and in a moment I am in his arms and he is holding me tightly and kissing my face, my closed eyes, my smiling mouth, kissing me till I am breathless and have to pull away from him.

- Philippa Gregory

topic: Running, Eye, Kissing, Closed Eyes, Friendly Faces

Death when unmasked shows us a friendly face and is a terror only at a distance.

- Oliver Goldsmith

source: Oliver Goldsmith, David Masson (1869). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith”, p.693

topic: Death, Distance, Friendly, Friendly Faces

I love the friendly faces of old sorrows; I have no secrets that they do not know.

- Karle Wilson Baker

source: Karle Wilson Baker (1931). “Dreamers on Horseback: (collected Verse)”

topic: Secret, Sorrow, Friendly, Friendly Faces

Be generous in prosperity, and thankful in adversity. Be worthy of the trust of thy neighbor, and look upon him with a bright and friendly face. Be a treasure to the poor, an admonisher to the rich, an answerer of the cry of the needy, a preserver of the sanctity of thy pledge.

- Bahá'u'lláh

topic: Adversity, Friendly, Faces, Baha, Friendly Faces

President Obama and Vladimir Putin are both in China attending the same economic summit. Obama saw Putin and said, 'After those midterms, it's nice to finally see a friendly face.'

- Conan O'Brien

topic: Nice, Friendly, President, Midterms, Friendly Faces

Baseball is about homecoming. It is a journey by theft and strength, guile and speed, out around first to the far island of second, where foes lurk in the reefs and the green sea suddenly grows deeper, then to turn sharply, skimming the shallows, making for a shore that will show a friendly face, a color, a familiar language and, at third, to proceed, no longer by paths indirect but straight, to home.

- A. Bartlett Giamatti

source: A. Bartlett Giamatti (1998). “A Great and Glorious Game: Baseball Writings of A. Bartlett Giamatti”, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill

topic: Baseball, Home, Journey, Homecoming, Skimming

We thought it was only in science fiction that things created by humans could actually take over what is inherently our human heritage. But Thom Hartmann shows how we've already let that happen on a frightening scale - not in Frankenstein's monsters or Kubrick's creeping computer Hal - but in the corporations that present their friendly 'faces' to us as if we have nothing to fear from this ultimate usurpation of our rights as real humans.

- Ed Ayres

topic: Real, Rights, Friendly, Frankenstein's Monster, Friendly Faces

I particularly felt that my job in management was safe from the incursion of machines with friendly faces painted on the front of their heads, or whatever you call the metal constructions atop their shoulders, if those are indeed shoulders.

- Stanley Bing

topic: Jobs, Friendly, Machines, Friendly Faces