"My mother's eyes were large and brown, like……" — Anne Lamott
"My mother's eyes were large and brown, like my son's, but unlike Sam's, they were always frantic, like a hummingbird who can't quite find the flower but keeps jabbing around."
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489 Quotes by Anne Lamott
Anne Lamott has 489 quotes on this site.
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'Help' is a prayer that is always answered.
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I've seen prayers answered. But often, in my experiences, if you get what you pray for, you've really shortchanged yourself.
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You get your confidence and intuition back by trusting yourself, by being militantly on your own side. ... Don't look…
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Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor; the enemy of the people. It will keep you insane your whole life.
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Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life - it gave me me. It provided the…
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You are desperate to communicate, to edify or entertain, to preserve moments of grace or joy or transcendence, to make…
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You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind.
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In fact, not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.
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Charles had once remarked that holding onto a resentment was like eating rat poison and waiting for the rat to…
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To love yourself as you are is a miracle, and to seek yourself is to have found yourself for now.…
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...after a few days at the desk, telling the truth in an interesting way turns out to be as easy…
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They believe that if they do get published, a wonderful new life is in store. It will turn out that…
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My husband is such a healthy eater. Except when it comes to sweets. He never consumes anything except fruit until…
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Someone once threw me a small, brown, hairy kiwi fruit, and I threw a wastebasket over it until it was…
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My personal life is the same. At the end of the day, this is just a job. I love what…
— Chris Brown
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I named my new son James Joseph Brown II. I think he's going to be a lot better than I…
— James Brown
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Even before he came to power in 1997, Gordon Brown promised to change the accounts to parliament from simple litanies…
— James Buchan
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When Gordon the Brown, in London in 1997, commissioned a great inquisition or survey of his new realm, the result…
— James Buchan
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You can't really dance properly to James Brown. If you dance to James Brown, you look like an idiot. There's…
— Sandra Bullock
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I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican…
— Smedley Butler
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In the middle of the night, when you're ambiguously ethnic, like me, when you're brown, beige, mauve, siena, one of…
— Sherman Alexie
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Tony Blair and Gordon Brown committed to John Major's spending envelopes in 1997. No-one said that Tony Blair and John…
— Nick Clegg
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If Jesus Christ came back today, He and I would get into our brown corduroys and go to the nearest…
— Ian Anderson
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Spring drew on... and a greenness grew over those brown beds, which, freshening daily, suggested the thought that hope traversed…
— Charlotte Bronte
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