Lap Quotes

390 quotes by 318 authors

I've been in more laps than a napkin. — Mae West
If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is… — Alfred North Whitehead
Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks. — Lin Yutang
The rose fell into his lap, and he looked up, startled. Mimi grinned. "Hey handsom" Mimi sent. "What's up?" Jack replied, without speaking. "Just thinking… — Melissa de la Cruz
Golden retrievers are not bred to be guard dogs, and considering the size of their hearts and their irrepressible joy in life, they are less… — Dean Koontz
Well, in that hit you miss. She'll not be hit With Cupid's arrow. She hath Dian's wit, And, in strong proff of chastity well armed,… — William Shakespeare
Jill told me that when you're really in love, you know right away. I'm not exactly sure how this happens. Is it like a flash… — Alice Hoffman
A mouse slid out from under his hat and scrambled down his sleeve, across his lap, and down to the floor. Nothing,' said Fenworth, 'should… — Donita K. Paul
It doesn't really matter whether you grip the arms of the dentist's chair or let your hands lie in your lap. The drill drills on. — C.S. Lewis
Inside the snow globe on my father's desk, there was a penguin wearing a red-and-white-striped scarf. When I was little my father would pull me… — Alice Sebold
Humanity i love you because you are perpetually putting the secret of life in your pants and forgetting it's there and sitting down on it… — E E Cummings
From daydreams on the road there was no waking. He plodded on. He could remember everything of her save her scent. Seated in a theatre… — Cormac McCarthy
the sense of being which in calm hours arises, we know not how, in the soul, is not diverse from things, from space, from light,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
All the black leather she needs is the E-Z boy recliner where her love is parked with one of his hands wrapped around a remote,… — Daphne Gottlieb
This is a place where grandmothers hold babies on their laps under the stars and whisper in their ears that the lights in the sky… — Rick Bragg
The conclusion I have reached is that, above all, dogs are witnesses. They are allowed access to our most private moments. They are there when… — Carolyn Parkhurst
To her- Hand in hand we come Christopher Robin and I To lay this book in your lap. Say you're surprised? Say you like it?… — A A Milne
But will you not have a house to care for? Meals to cook? Children whining for this or that? Will you have time for the… — Gloria Whelan
Sekhmet crawled onto Ramses's lap and began to purr. 'The creature oozes like a furry slug,' said Ramses, eyeing it without favor. — Barbara Mertz
She sat down on one of her grandmother's uncomfortable armchairs, and the cat sprang up into her lap and made itself comfortable. The light that… — Neil Gaiman

Who Wrote These Lap Quotes

318 authors contributed a total of 390 Lap Quotes, led by these top contributors: