Quotes About Mother's Lap

#1. Once upon a time, I sat in my mother's lap as she turned the pages of Golden Books, and I gradually learned to read.

Michael Dirda

#2. 'Charlotte's Web,' which I read sitting on my mother's lap, was the most emotional experience: that was when I made the leap from seeing how to untangle words to realizing how books both contain and convey strong feelings.

Meg Wolitzer

#3. A little girl lay flung back in her mother's lap as though sleep had struck her with a blow.

Eudora Welty

#4. There is no home as comfortable as your father's arms and no bed as soft as your mother's lap.

Faraaz Kazi

#5. If I find a green meadow splashed with daisies and sit down beside a clear-running brook, I have found medicine. It soothes my hurts as well as when I sat in my mother's lap in infancy, because the Earth really is my mother, and the green meadow is her lap.

Deepak Chopra

#6. So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap, or be with ease Gathered, not harshly plucked, for death mature: This is old age; but then thou must outlive Thy youth, thy strength, thy beauty, which will change To withered weak and grey.

John Milton

#7. 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

#8. A baby is born like a bird ready to soar from the mother's lap. The nets of societal rules and regulations puts him in a cage from which he can never escape to create his own new world.

Debasish Mridha

#9. My mother went to a school called 'The Club of the Three Wise Monkeys'. And my grandmother, my father's mother, had a gold charm for her made with the speak no, see no, hear no evil monkeys. And I was fascinated by that charm. I'd sit in my mother's lap and play with it all the time.

Mackenzie Phillips

#10. He was so beautiful. He wasn't mine. I should run to the mountains now, and hide. I should run right into his arms and demand that he close them around me. I should run home to my mother and cry into her lap.

Joshilyn Jackson

#11. I did get upset once, when we were hiking between pitches 15 and 16. Two women and a dog were trying to find their way down through the maze of trails below the First Summit and they asked us: 'Are you on the trail?' I let my indignity show: 'NO, we're on a CLIMB!'

Andy Cairns

#12. I'm on Facebook and the Internet EVERY DAY NUMEROUS TIMES A DAY.Sorry about the shouting but I can't help myself. My mother said her dog (a lapdog) never sits on my lap because I always have the laptop on it.

Franny Armstrong

#13. I want to feel the rain on my face, to smile at any man I feel attracted to, to accept all the coffees men might buy for me. I want to kiss my mother, tell her I love her, weep in her lap, unashamed of showing my feelings, because they were always there even though I hid them.

Paulo Coelho

#14. My mother read it when she was a teenager," Henry said, picking a piece of lint off his lap. "To Kill a Mockingbird. The day she accepted my father's proposal, she gave him a copy and told him that Atticus Finch is the kind of father she wants her husband to be.

Ophelia London

#15. Eddie Murphy was the Michael Jordan of comedy. He had a full range of abilities.

Aries Spears

#16. How weird it would be to have around you only as many books as you have time to read in the rest of your life. And I remain deeply attached to the physical book and the physical bookshop.

Julian Barnes

#17. People run away to be alone,' he said. Some people had to be alone.

William Trevor

#18. Melancholy is to know the beauty of life, and to know it must end.

Alex Miller

#19. Just as a mother finds pleasure in taking her little child on her lap, there to feed and caress him, in like manner our loving God shows His fondness for His beloved souls who have given themselves entirely to Him and have placed all their hope in His goodness.

Alphonsus Liguori

#20. Humility and resignation are our prime virtues.

John Dryden

#21. There's nothing better in life than being a parent, there's nothing more beautiful in life than women, there's nothing more precious in life than time, and there's nothing in life more magical than life itself.

Ben Tolosa

#22. He started low and remained there, sure that safety embraced felicity on a mattress of obscurity. He knew that vertical activity invited dazzling exposure, and that to seek is to be sucked. He recognized loneliness as the mother of virtues and sat in her lap whenever he could.

David Ohle

#23. Using what you have always enhances what's to come no matter if it's an album, song, artwork or whatever.

B.J. The Chicago Kid

#24. Regret, is usually a waste of time. As is gloating

Pierce Brosnan

#25. 68. By then all poets will live in artistic communities calls jails or asylums. 69. Our imaginary home, the home we share.

Roberto Bolano

#26. Suffering may be someones fault or it may not be anyones fault. But if given to God, our suffering becomes an opportunity to experience the power of God at work in our lives and to give glory to Him.

Anne Graham Lotz

#27. Our sphere of influence should reflect righteousness

Sunday Adelaja

#28. Helping someone because you feel sorry for them is one thing, but doing it because you like them and care about what happens to them is better. That means you aren't doing it for yourself.

Katherine Allred

#29. There should be a colossal mother going about the world to turn men over her lap and give them the slipper. They pine for it.

Mary Catherwood

#30. The wild women in his lap,' my father enthused, 'laying their breasts on his head.'
There was a moment of stunned silence. Then my mother spoke slowly, with an edge to her voice. 'I think you mean "wild beasts laying their heads in his lap".'
'Do I?

Patrick Rothfuss

#31. If Microsoft is the new IBM, Google is the new Microsoft - the defining company of the industry.

Mitchell Kapor