Lap Quotes - Page 12

• How do you summon up courage to dismiss a cat who is paying you a compliment of sitting on your lap?

  Derek Tangye

  Cat, Sitting, Compliment

  Derek Tangye (2014). “A Cat in the Window: Tales from a Cornish Flower Farm”, p.37, Hachette UK

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• Girl who sit on Judge's lap get honorable discharge.

  Confucius

  Funny, Girl, Witty

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• Let reverence for the laws, be breathed by every American mother, to the lisping babe, that prattles on her lap - let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in Primmers, spelling books, and in Almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Mother, Book, School

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.35, Penguin

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• No louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands or lap-dogs breathe their last.

  Alexander Pope

  Dog, Husband, Loss

  Alexander Pope (2002). “Alexander Pope: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.76, Routledge

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• Swimmin' laps around a bottle of Louie the Thirteenth
  Jumpin' off of a mountain into a sea of codeine
  I'm at the top of the top, but still I climb
  And if I should ever fall, the ground will then turn to wine.

  Lil Wayne

  Rap, Fall, Wine

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• I write so much because my cat sits on my lap. She purrs so I don't want to get up. She's so much more calming than my husband.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Husband, Writing, Cat

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• How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! How glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

  John Milton

  Death, Mother, Sleep

  John Milton, “Paradise Lost: Book 10”

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• The seasons alter: hoary-headed frosts
  Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose,
  And on old Hiems' thin and icy crown
  An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds
  Is, as in mockery, set. The spring, the summer,
  The childing autumn, angry winter, change
  Their wonted liveries, and the mazed world,
  By their increase, now knows not which is which.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Sweet, Spring

  William Shakespeare, R. A. Foakes (2003). “A Midsummer Night's Dream”, p.74, Cambridge University Press

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• Ancient poets and sages have called the earth the mother of all things. They could hardly have chosen a more attractive name, or one that was more appropriate. From her lap springs everything that possesses life and motion, everything that flourishes, fades, and has its fated day, and she tirelessly provides material for the countless varied bodies that are created -- and then abandoned -- by the life force in its unending, hidden progress through nature.

  Jonas Hallgrimsson

  Mother, Gratitude, Spring

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• (On the 1,500 meters) We went pretty slowly. It was a nice final lap for everyone. I didn't really have that last gear, but I felt really good. It is the beginning of the season and it felt good to get back into it. It is a nice night out. It was really hot earlier, but now it is a beautiful time to run.

  Blake Williams

  Beautiful, Running, Nice

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• I kind of just lost track of laps. I couldn't hear a split. It was just so loud in here everyone was going nuts. I sort of felt like I was a little tired and I said, the people in front of me seem like they are falling off the lead pack a little bit. I should probably make a move. I hear ding, ding, ding, ding and I thought "oh crap! I've really got to go, I've got a lot left.

  Will Leer

  Moving, Fall, Tired

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• Now the bright morning-star, Day's harbinger,
  Comes dancing from the East, and leads with her
  The flowery May, who from her green lap throws
  The yellow cowslip and the pale primrose.
  Hail, bounteous May, that dost inspire
  Mirth, and youth, and warm desire!
  Woods and groves are of thy dressing;
  Hill and dale doth boast thy blessing.
  Thus we salute thee with our early song,
  And welcome thee, and wish thee long.

  John Milton

  Song, Morning, Stars

  John Milton (1859). “The poems of John Milton”, p.43

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• So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap.

  John Milton

  Mother, May, Fruit

  1665 Michael to Adam. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.11, l.535-40.

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• It was a very strange, disappointing race in that no one wanted to take it out. That's why I took the lead. I wanted some people to run the real distance and that was frustrating. So I took the pace around the second lap, which in some ways is suicidal...but I wanted the pace to be honest.

  Marla Runyan

  Running, Real, Distance

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• Blink and you miss a sprint. The 10,000 meters is lap after lap of waiting. Theatrically, the mile is just the right length: beginning, middle, end, a story unfolding.

  Sebastian Coe

  Running, Waiting, Missing

  "An Exclusive Club". Interview with Gary Smith, www.si.com. June 27, 1994.

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• Nowas you all know, this week, Pope Benedict told Vatican Radio—you know, Vatican Radio, playing the hits from the 8th century, 9th century and today—Benedict told them he was going to resign because the Church needs a fresh, young face, somewhere other than a priest's lap.

  Bill Maher

  Church, Needs, Radio

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• There is a huge boom in autism right now because inattentive mothers and competitive dads want an explanation for why their dumb-ass kids can't compete academically, so they throw money into the happy laps of shrinks . . . to get back diagnoses that help explain away the deficiencies of their junior morons. I don't give a [bleep] what these crackerjack whack jobs tell you - yer kid is NOT autistic. He's just stupid. Or lazy. Or both.

  Denis Leary

  Mother, Jobs, Dad

  Denis Leary (2008). “Why We Suck: A Feel Good Guide to Staying Fat, Loud, Lazy and Stupid”, p.98, Penguin

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• Professionally, I have no major goals. That's partly because I'm really flaky. I want things, but I don't go after them. I'd rather they be placed in my lap.

  Valerie Bertinelli

  Goal, Want, Majors

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• Everyone thinks something like 'The Hills' just falls into your lap. It's not true. You have to work for everything.

  Brody Jenner

  Fall, Thinking, Hills

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• I mean, how many young women get a set of rubies just for doing something wholesome like swimming laps? Or win a diamond ring at Ping-Pong with their husband... ? Well, I did, and for all of these memories and the people in my life I feel blessed.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Husband, Memories, Blessed

  "Elizabeth Taylor: My Love Affair with Jewelry". Book by Elizabeth Taylor, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2002.

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• We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organ of its activity. When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we do nothing by ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams. If we ask whence this comes, if we seek to pry into the soul that causes, all philosophy is at fault. Its presence or its absence is all we can affirm.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Philosophy, Lying, Justice

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.16, Penguin

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• Customers should complain more. You know, food's expensive nowadays. And these sommeliers come along with their thousand-page wine list and practically throw it in your lap. They're all businessmen and know that customers get intimidated and buy something overpriced. I say, always put them on the spot. 'You come back to me with a red wine at $30, $40. Come back to me with a choice.'

  Gordon Ramsay

  Success, Wine, Choices

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• Gradually, they learned that politics is fundamentally a great business, a struggling and a haggling for advantages, over whose lap collects the most rewards cast by the legislation-machine.

  Friedrich Naumann

  Philosophy, Struggle, Political

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• Distance running to a professional athlete in my day was five laps around the field. And you stopped each lap to take your pulse.

  Lynn Swann

  Football, Running, Distance

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• I can't think of anything that brings me closer to tears than when my old dog - completely exhausted after a hard day in the field - limps away from her nice spot in front of the fire and comes over to where I'm sitting and puts her head in my lap, a paw over my knee, and closes her eyes, and goes back to sleep. I don't know what I've done to deserve that kind of friend.

  Gene Hill

  Friendship, Dog, Nice

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