L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Little kids are amazing. They seem able to adjust to anything.”
“Little kids are that way; they feel if their parents aren't watching what they do then what they do isn't real.”
Source: The Man in the High Castle
“Little kids grow up discovering the world that's shown to them and then when you become a teenager, it kind of shrinks a little bit. I think when you get past that point, one of the important things is that you see there is more to the world than yourself.”
“Little kids learn to walk by falling. They fall forward and eventually they start catching themselves. All walking is controlled falling. It’s the same with success. You learn by failing. Success is just controlled failing.”
“Little kids shoot marbles where the branches break the sun into graceful shafts of light… I just want to be pure.”
Source: The Basketball Diaries: Age 12-15
“Little kids sing a song called "America the Beautiful." They sing a song called "This Land Is Your Land, This Land Is My Land." To me, those songs are not just nice little ditties. They are marching orders. They are commandments that we must protect America's beauty from the clear-cutters, the strip-miners, the oil spillers. They are pledges we have made. They are promises to keep.”
“Little kids talk about the strangest things. They really do.”
“Little kids' minds are very, very strong. They bend. There's a lot of tensile strength and they don't break. We start our kids off on things like "Hansel and Gretel," which features child abandonment, kidnapping, attempted murder, forcible detention, cannibalism, and finally murder by cremation. And the kids love it.”
“Little kindness and courtesies are so important. In relationships, the little things are the big things.”
“Little known fact- a cat which has just bitten itself in the ass can achieve impressive speed at it dashes madly straight up a curtain.”
Source: The Tao of the Dippy Cat: A Series of Uncomfortable Incidents and Horrible Happenings
“Little known fact, or not a little known fact actually - that Prince is a Gemini.”
“Little lamb, I'll hold you, don't you cry”
“Little Lamb, who made thee? Dost thou know who made thee?”
“Little late for that now. I don’t think an ‘Oops, my bad, my weapon accidentally misfired two dozen rounds’ will work to get me out of this. (Devyn)”
Source: Born Of Ice: Number 3 in series
“Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.”
“Little leaks sink the ship.”
“Little learning and much pride come of hasty reading.”
“Little less than a promise, and a little more than a chance.”
Source: Every Day
“Little liberties are great offenses.”
Source: Aesop's fables
“Little lies that make people feel better are not bad, like thanking someone for a meal they made even if you hated it, or telling a sick person they look better when they don't, or someone with a hideous new hat that it's lovely. But to yourself you must tell the truth”
Source: Harriet the Spy
“little life lesson 23: before making a snide comment about someone else's outfit, check to see if you're wearing knee boots with fringe. if you answer yes, drop it. just do.”
“Little Life Lesson 51: When selecting a member of a group to put on the Endangered Species List, it’s probably best not to pick the least popular person, because there is always a chance everyone will shrug and be like, "Um, okay. Hey, anyone want pizza?" and leave.”
“Little Light
There is this little light within,
Her name is Hope,
And I know that as long as I can feel her there,
Just beneath my skin,
Sending her waves within the labyrinth of my mind,
She is snugly at peace within my heart,
And I have a chance.”
Source: Pieces: A Poetry Anthology
“Little losses amaze, great tame.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: And The Satires and Psalms of Bishop Hall
“Little lost child on a battlefield which she can’t even see. I promised her I’d make it all worthwhile. Now I’ve grown; the child isn’t me.”
“Little Lotte thought of everything and nothing. Her hair was as golden as the sun's rays, and her soul as clear and blue as her eyes. She wheedled her mother, was kind to her doll, took great care of her frock and her red shoes and her fiddle, but loved most of all, when she went to sleep, to hear the Angel of Music.”
Source: The Phantom of the Opera & The Mystery of the Yellow Room (Mystery Classics): The Ultimate Gothic Romance Mystery and One of the First Locked-Room Crime Mysteries
“Little Lucien," Rhys purred. "Didn't the Lady of the Autumn Court ever tell you that when a woman says no, she means it?”
Source: A Court of Mist and Fury
“Little Lucien,' Rhys purred. 'Didn't the Lady of the Autumn Court ever tell you that when a woman says no, she means it?'
'Prick,' Lucien snarled, storming past his sentinels, but not daring to touch his weapons. 'You filthy, whoring prick.'
I loosed a growl.
Lucien's eyes sliced to me and he said with quiet horror, 'What have you done, Feyre?'
'Don't come looking for me again,' I said with equal softness.
'He'll never stop looking for you; never stop waiting for you to come home.'
The words hit me in the gut- like they were meant to. It must have shown in my face because Lucien pressed, 'What did he do to you? Did he take your mind and-'
'Enough,' Rhys said, angling his head with that casual grace. 'Feyre and I are busy. Go back to your lands before I send your heads as a reminder to my old friend about what happens when Spring Court flunkies set foot in my territory.'
The freezing rain slid down the neck of my clothes, down my back. Lucien's face was deathly pale. 'You made your point, Feyre- now come home.'
'I'm not a child playing games,' I said through my teeth. That's how they'd seen me: in need of coddling, explaining, defending...
'Careful, Lucien,' Rhysand drawled. 'Or Feyre darling will send you back in pieces, too.”
Source: A Court of Mist and Fury
“Little Maggie: I knew when the doctors told my mommy and daddy that I didn't have cancer, that they were wrong. I knew that something was wrong with me and that I was just going to have to wait until they found it.”
Source: Pearls: A Memoir On Childhood Brain Cancer and Hope
“Little Maiden Encounters Fear
Deepest regions walked she there
little maiden sweet and fair
ventured far from the path
never a whisper
never a laugh...”
Source: Enigmatic Evolution
“Little men build up great ones, but the snow colossus soon melts; the good stand under the eye of God, and therefore stand.”
Source: The Works of Walter Savage Landor
“Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.”
“Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.”
“Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.”
Source: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories
“Little minds find satisfaction for their feelings, good or bad, in little things.”
Source: Pere Goriot and Eugenie Grandet
“Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.”
“Little minds mistake little objects for great ones, and lavish away upon the former that time and attention which only the latterdeserve. To such mistakes we owe the numerous and frivolous tribe of insect-mongers, shell-mongers, and pursuers and driers of butterflies, etc. The strong mind distinguishes, not only between the useful and the useless, but likewise between the useful and the curious.”
Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters
“Little minds think and talk about people.
Average minds think and talk about things and actions.
Great minds think and talk about ideas.”
“Little minds try to defend everything at once, but sensible people look at the main point only; they parry the worst blows and stand a little hurt if thereby they avoid a greater one. If you try to hold everything, you hold nothing.”
“Little minds try to solve the matters through violence and darkness; great minds try to solve the matters through love and light!”
“Little mirrors were attached to the front of their cars, at which they glanced to see where they had been; then they stared ahead again. I had thought that only beetles had this delusion of Progress.”
“Little Miss Assassin is as slow as molassin,” Janco sang.
“Molassin? That’s not even a word,” Ari called.
“Everyone’s a critic. I’d like to see you find a word that rhymes with assassin.”
Source: Shadow Study
“Little miss is taught by her mamma that she must never speak before she is spoken to. On this she sits bridling up her head, looking from one to the other, in hopes of being called to and addressed by the name of pretty miss.... But if this should not happen and no one should take any notice of her, she is ready to cry at the neglect. But should there be another miss in the room caressed and taken notice of whilst she is thus overlooked, it will be impossible for her to contain her tears, and blubbering is the word.”
“Little Moments
Actually Momentous”
“Little Moments,
Actually Momentous.
Little Moments,
Most Profound.
Little Moments,
Golden Rare.”
“Little moments attach themselves to other little moments and collect into big dreams. We become what we experience.”
“Little moments can have a feeling and a texture that is very real.”
“Little Moments that bloom in Christmas hue.
How beautiful the night shines in the hue of dreams, as if lulling along a distant breeze, wrapped in a cold warmth of a solitary winter's eve!
To me, Christmas is always about a bunch of happy moments, simple yet ornate in a colour of joy, something that connects our hearts to all that is pure and pristine, all that is beautifully simple and soulfully happy.
And if we look closely, we can find those moments, every day in our regular lives, from sipping on our early morning coffee to munching on our midnight snack, from taking a moment to gaze at the sunset to simply sitting silent listening to our soul, beautiful unfiltered unadulterated moments that often go unnoticed yet remain forever warmed up in the cold embrace of our heart, frozen in a niche of a dream called Life.
After all, Life is a beautiful dream.
La vie est un beau rêve
Stay in Love.”
“Little money has no power. Either be that rich that you don't need to look twice before burning, or be so kind and compassionate that you don't need money to get your stuff done. Rest everybody suffers.”
“Little Montenegro! He lifted up the words and nodded at them-with his smile. The smile comprehended Montenegro’s troubled history and sympathized with the brave struggles of the Montenegrin people. It appreciated fully the chain of national circumstances, which had elicited this tribute from Montenegro’s warm little heart. My incredulity was submerged in fascination now; it was like skimming hastily through a dozen magazines.”
Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works