Familiar

Famous quotes containing the word familiar:

    The Indians of this neighborhood are about as familiar with the moose as we are with the ox, having associated with them for so many generations.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    All the familiar horrors we
    Associate with others
    Are coming fast along our way:
    The wind is warning in our tree
    And morning papers still betray
    The shrieking of the mothers.
    Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.
    Margaret Mead (1901–1978)