All Anne Lamott Quotes
- The worst part about celebrating another birthday is the shock that you're only as well as you are. Another Birthday
- When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens. Expectation
- It's a great time to be alive. Alive
- I accidentally forgot to graduate from college. Accidentally
- I loved every second of Catholic church. I loved the sickly sweet rotting-pomegranate smells of the incense. I loved the overwrought altar, the birdbath of… Altar
- A whole lot of us believers, of all different religions, are ready to turn back the tide of madness by walking together, in both the… All
- I was the angriest daughter on earth, and also, one of the most devoted. Angriest
- I don't have very sophisticated taste in music. I listen to a lot of folk music. I like reggae. Folk
- I go to church every Sunday, which is like going to the gas station once a week and really, really filling up. Church
- I've known for years that resentments don't hurt the person we resent, but they do hurt us. Hurt
- No one is more sentimentalized in America than mothers on Mother's Day, but no one is more often blamed for the culture's bad people and… America
- We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation:… Blood
- Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in a life-threatening way,… Ago
- All parents are an embarrassment to their kids. Often, grandparents are the relief. Kids don't have to resist you. All
- Evangelical Christians and I can sit down and talk one on one about how much we love Jesus, and yet I'm not carried in Christian… Bookstores
- Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner's manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage. Everyone
- For me, Jesus is my cleft in the rock. He is my safest friend, my safe totally loving accepting big brother. Accepting
- I am skittish about relationships, as most of the marriages I've seen up close have been ruinous for one or both parties. Been
- I do not have deep theological understanding or opinion, but I do not read the Bible as the literal word of God. Bible
- I feel incredibly successful. I make a living as a writer and am able to help support a big family, my church, my bleeding-heart causes. Able
- I have a very dark sense of humor. I swear. I have a very playful relationship with Jesus. Dark
- I just try to love and serve everyone, and bring everyone water, and lend an ear; that's what Jesus said to do. Bring
- I like to read away as much of the afternoon as possible, until real life rears its ugly head. Afternoon
- I read the same amount of nonfiction and fiction. Amount
- I think Jesus is divine love manifest on Earth, as it comes through the community of Christians. Christian