L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Like most humans, I am hungry...our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others. So it happens that when I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it...”
Source: The Gastronomical Me
“Like most Israelis, I know very little about the Arabs. We just look down on them and see them as a threat. We have absolutely no experience with a democratic country in our vicinity. Is it good or bad for us? I am convinced that democracy isn't just good for the people in those countries, but for Israel as well.”
“Like most kids growing up, I had a very wide interest. I was interested in everything. I tried to take advantage of everything, from the sciences to music to writing to literature.”
“Like most kids, I grew up singing 'This Land Is Your Land' in grammar school, but with the most radical verses neatly removed. This was before I knew it was a Woody Guthrie song.”
“Like most kids, my dad played. He would drag us out to the course and make us shag balls for him and caddy and all that kind of stuff.”
“Like most kids, you don't want to do what your folks want you to do. You've got your own thing.”
“Like most Latinas, I'm not afraid to speak my mind.”
“Like most lazy upper-middle-class kids, American Studies seemed like a fun way to use your knowledge of TV to get an A.”
“Like most lit nerds, I'm a voracious reader. I never got enough poetry under my belt growing up but I do read it - some of my favorites, Gina Franco and Angela Shaw and Cornelius Eady and Kevin Young, remind me daily that unless the words sing and dance, what's the use of putting them down on paper.”
“Like most little girls, I found the lure of grown-up accessories astonishing - lipstick, perfume, hats and gloves. When I write female characters in my historical novels, getting these details right is vital.”
“Like most mammals, dogs only have 2 colour detecting cells or cones. This is in contrast to humans, who have 3. Dogs, therefore see a restricted colour spectrum. However, they are not colourblind, instead they see the world in yellow, blue and grey. For dogs, green, yellow and orange are perceived as yellowish, while purple and blue are perceived as blue, and blue-green as grey. As a result, dogs have a hard time recognising a red ball in a green field.”
Source: The Dog and his Philosopher: A Call for Autonomy and Animal Rights
“Like most marriages, ours eventually wore down all the cartilage. We were a hip needing replacement. Bone on bone, grinding, day in and day out. It worked but it was hard.”
Source: Elroy Nights
“Like most meaningful activities, campaigns are team games.”
“Like most men, he believed the solution was always the end of the problem.”
Source: Other Birds
“Like most men of his kind, he viewed religion as a precious and powerful instrument for directing the female conscience.”
Source: The Odd Women
“Like most men, I am consumed with desire whenever a lesbian gets within twenty feet.”
“Like most men, I'm a life support system for a phallus.”
Source: The Thought Gang
“Like most men, Jimmy Jim was neither all good nor all bad. It is just that when he was bad, gentler people saw in him a disturbing fury. People, a lot them, don't understand fury. They understand anger and even hatred, but fury is one of those old words that have gone out of style. Jimmy Jim Bundrum understood it. It rode his shoulder like a parrot.”
Source: Ava's Man
“Like most men, my father is interested in action. And this is why he disappoints my mother when she tells him she doesn't feel well and he offers to take her to the doctor. He is focused on what he can do, whereas she wants sympathy.”
“Like most Michigan natives, Ferguson had a vague knowledge of a thing called barbecue, but had never actually eaten any. He was, however, intimately familiar with whiskey.”
Source: Thin Blue Smoke
“Like most misery, it started out with apparent happiness. - The Book Thief”
“Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.”
Source: The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition
“Like most modern Americans, I assume individuality is not only a fundamental value, but a goal in life, an art form.”
“Like most modern people, we no longer bothered to make the distinction between events in real life and the dramas of fictional worlds, and so the cliff-hanger that inevitably, reliably ended the hour held just as much or more importance to us as the newspaper that usually went from doorstep to garbage bin unread, and we speculated about the future lives of the characters that populated decayed mansions or desert isles as if they weren't inventions of other human minds.”
Source: The Dream of Perpetual Motion
“Like most modern people, I don't believe in prophecy or magic and then spend half my time practicing it.”
Source: The Winter of our Discontent
“Like most musicians, Im good at becoming immersed in the music that I am currently working on. We seldom lift up our heads to contemplate even the music we will be doing in the future, let alone what weve done in the past.”
“Like most New Yorkers I was shell-shocked immediately after 9/11 and couldn't put into words what I was feeling.”
“Like most normal people, I didn't have any M.F.K Fisher quotes memorized. So I selected one of her books at random---well, not random, the one that looked the least valuable---and flipped to a random page. Hoping I'd find something beautiful but decidedly unsexy, maybe about the smell of a mushroom farm or boxes of durian.
Where my eyes landed: Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.
Thanks a lot, Mary Frances Kennedy.”
Source: Best Served Hot
“Like most North Americans of his generation, Hal tends to know way less about why he feels certain ways about the objects and pursuits he's devoted to than he does about the objects and pursuits themselves. It's hard to say for sure whether this is even exceptionally bad, this tendency.”
“Like most North Americans, I'd been raised on the notion that milk is the first food, and everybody must like it because it's so good and so important for growing up and for being healthy.”
“Like most novelists, I like to do exactly the opposite of what I'm told. It's in my nature as a novelist. Novelists can't trust anything they haven't seen with their own eyes or touched with their own hands. (Jerusalem Prize acceptance speech, JERUSALEM POST, Feb. 15, 2009)”
“Like most of my friends in school, I was a member of multiple circulating libraries; and all of us, to begin with, borrowed and read the same things.”
“Like most of my poems, 'Lie' has several sources: I read a very troubling book called The Sixth Extinction. I took note of the way people, including me, enjoy talking knowledgeably about how the world will end. I drove to Tucson and saw the desert flowering on either side of the road. And I glanced at my spam to see what people wanted to sell me these days.”
“Like most of my stories, it will end tragically.”
Source: If He Had Been With Me
“Like most of the educated, I do harbor a fondness for the sins of my ignorant past.”
“Like most of the movies I get involved with, I resisted as long as possible, I really try to figure out why I shouldn't do it and this one had plenty of reasons "not to do it".”
“Like most of the movies I have participated in before, it's not a far departure from my actual self. TJ is a Special Forces, hand-to-hand combat expert. He's got a big heart. He has a sense of duty that never ends, whether he is active duty or as you find him in Check Point, retired.”
“Like most of the other teachers, I'd done a bit of teaching and we all think we're great at what we do, but you realize that normally you have an audience who are all onside, who all want to listen.”
“Like most of the others, I was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times a stupid hell-raiser.”
Source: The Rum Diary: Film Tie-in Edition
“Like most of the students of Crozer [Theological Seminary], I felt that while war could never be a positive or absolute good, it could serve as a negative good in the sense of preventing the spread and growth of an evil force. War, horrible as it is, might be preferable to surrender to a totalitarian system—Nazi, Fascist, or Communist.”
Source: Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story
“Like most of the world's population I'm into coffee, my perfect weekend would start with a pint of coffee.”
“Like most of this country’s marginalised people, I can’t afford to forget that, in America, both the dream and the nightmare can be true all at once, back to back.”
“Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.”
“Like most of us, I determined that I'd rather be a large part of the problem than a small part of the solution.”
Source: You Can Lead a Politician to Water, But You Can't Make Him Think: Ten Commandments for Texas Politics
“Like most of us, I'm used to juggling about 52 roles in life. Wife. Mother. Sister. Friend. Author. Sometimes I feel a bit 'multiple-personality'.”
“Like most other creatives, I struggle with self-sabotage, self-doubt, and feeling like an imposter more often than not. I struggle with expressing myself, because it does sometimes feel easier or safer not to.”
“Like most parents in the US, they are trying, with a little help from UNICEF, to do the best they can to help their children reach their full potential.”
“Like most parents, I want everything for my kids that I didn't have. But I don't intend to spoil them. I just enjoy everything that comes naturally with parenthood.”
“Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'”
Source: Paper View: The Best of The Sunday Times Television Columns
“Like most passionate nations, Texas has its own history based on, but not limited by, facts.”
Source: Travels with Charley in Search of America