#had

My mother was a woman who was very frustrated. She had a great deal of ability, and all this energy went into me and my brother. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#brother #deal #energy #frustrated #great

I've had the odd good luck of starting slowly and building gradually, something few writers are allowed anymore. As a result I've seen each of my books called the breakthrough. And each was, in its way. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#anymore #books #breakthrough #building #called

I finally did work out a very good relationship with my father, but it was rough growing up. We had a lot of conflict, and I think it surfaced in many of my works. ↗

— Ira Levin

#did #father #finally #good #good relationship

We had several hits in the States but probably only one big one in Europe. The crowds are smaller. ↗

— Huey Lewis

#crowds #europe #had #hits #only

The weather became so intensely cold that we sent for all the hunters who had remained out with captain Clarke's party, and they returned in the evening several of them frostbitten. ↗

— Meriwether Lewis

#captain #clarke #cold #evening #had

Prostration is our natural position. A worm-like movement from a spot of sunlight to a spot of shade, and back, is the type of movement that is natural to men. ↗

— Wyndham Lewis

#men #movement #natural #our #position

I had some issues. When I first had to deal with being in 'Star Wars,' you know, who wouldn't? ↗

— Jake Lloyd

#deal #first #had #i #issues

If I had a day to myself I would just play video games with my brothers. ↗

— Jeremy Lin

#day #games #had #i #just

My father was a sea captain, so was his father, and his father before him, and all my uncles. My mother's people all followed the sea. I suppose that if I had been born a few years earlier, I would have had my own ship. ↗

— Joseph C. Lincoln

#before #born #captain #earlier #father

That was in the days when everyone rode a bicycle, and the journal had a circulation of over one hundred and twenty-five thousand weekly, so my verses and illustrations became known to a fairly large public. ↗

— Joseph C. Lincoln

#bicycle #circulation #days #everyone #fairly