Quotes for All
It is the first changes among familiar things that make such a mystery of time to the young; afterwards we lose the sense of the mysterious. I take changes in all I see as a matter of course. The instability of all human things is familiar to me, to you it is new and oppressive.\” … Read more
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 as something new. Friedrich Nietzsche
There’s beauty all around our paths, If but our watchful eyes Can trace it ’midst familiar things, And through their lowly guise. Felicia Hemans
All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. 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 familiar faces. Charles Lamb
Most of us prefer to walk backward into the future, a posture that may be uncomfortable but which at least allows us to keep on looking at familiar things as long as we can. Charles Handy
Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it. Cesare … Read more
When I’ve tried to reinvent the wheel, I get bashed for not doing the familiar things. Billy Corgan
To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted. Bill Bryson
Familiar things are a comfort to us all. Andy Rooney