All Anne Lamott Quotes
- I am going to notice the lights of the earth, the sun and the moon and the stars, the lights of our candles as we… Already Present
- I am not writing to try and convert people to fundamental Christianity. I am just trying to share my experience, strength and hope, that someone… Accepted
- I did not raise my son, Sam, to celebrate Mother's Day. I didn't want him to feel some obligation to buy me pricey lunches or… Annual
- I didn't write about my mother much in the third year after she died. I was still trying to get my argument straight: When her… Argument
- I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled - all the things that the culture tells you… All
- I love readings and my readers, but the din of voices of the audience gives me stage fright, and the din of voices inside whisper… Annoying
- I quit my last real job, as a writer at a magazine, when I was twenty-one. That was the moment when I lost my place… Agreed
- I spent my whole life helping my mother carry around her psychic trunks like a bitter bellhop. So a great load was lifted when she… Bellhop
- I was raised in a family where none of us ever raised a voice, so there was no room to express feelings of rage or… Bashed
- I was raised with no religious training or influence. Except the influence was to be a moral and ethical person at the secular level. And… Activist
- I went to Goucher College in Maryland for the best possible reasons - to learn - but then I dropped out at 19 for the… Best
- I wish I had thrown out the bathroom scale at age 16. Weighing yourself every morning is like waking up and asking Dick Cheney to… Age
- I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I'd hoped to… Day
- I'd like to learn to meditate with more enthusiasm. I can sit down and get quiet for 20 minutes, but it just has not been… All
- I've heard people say that God is the gift of desperation, and there's a lot to be said for having really reached a bottom where… Any
- If you asked me, parents were supposed to affect the life of their child in such a way that the child grows up to be… Able
- It was simple reality - most competitive tennis players in my day were privileged, spoiled, entitled and white. Also, many of them were beautiful, fit,… Beautiful
- Left to my own devices, my first inclination is to mess in other people's lives. I secretly believe my whole family, and really the whole… Believe
- Life is really pretty tricky, and there's a lot of loss, and the longer you stay alive, the more people you lose whom you actually… Alive
- Most marriages are a mess, and the children get caught between two bitter, antagonistic parents. My parents stayed married for 27 unhappy years, till their… Antagonistic
- Mothering has been the richest experience of my life, but I am still opposed to Mother's Day. It perpetuates the dangerous idea that all parents… All
- My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers from what seemed like one safe place to another.… Across
- 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… Brown
- Presents can make up for some of the disappointments that life doles out, such as it makes almost no sense and is coming to an… Coming
- Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere... You don't have… Actually Show