#ld

Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever. ↗

— Charles Lamb

#april #as far as #cometh #ever #far

I like to write with people I have a relationship with; otherwise it's kind of scary, and you hold back because you don't want to pour your guts out to someone you never met. ↗

— Miranda Lambert

#because #guts #hold #i #kind

I would rather feel things in extreme than not at all. ↗

— Bonnie Raitt

#feel #i #rather #than #things

Amnesty is a big billboard, a flashing billboard, to the rest of the world that we don't really mean our immigration law. ↗

— Richard Lamm

#big #billboard #flashing #immigration #immigration law

The architecture of our future is not only unfinished; the scaffolding has hardly gone up. ↗

— George Lamming

#future #gone #hardly #only #our

My mother might find a thin gold chain at the back of a drawer, wadded into an impossibly tight knot, and give it to me to untangle. It would have a shiny, sweaty smell, and excite me: Gold chains linked you to the great fairy tales and myths, to Arabia, and India; to the great weight of the world, but lighter than a feather. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#back #chain #chains #drawer #excite

My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers from what seemed like one safe place to another. Like lily pads, round and green, these places summoned and then held me up while I grew. Each prepared me for the next leaf on which I would land, and in this way I moved across the swamp of doubt and fear. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#another #coming #did #doubt #each

I've never seen a truly great fighter get knocked onto the ropes unconscious... knocked out cold before... and I saw Roy Jones get knocked out twice in a row. ↗

— Jim Lampley

#cold #fighter #get #great #i

None of the things I have done would have been accomplished without a true team effort. ↗

— Nick Lampson

#been #done #effort #i #none

May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for their welfare; that the education of children may no longer be to parent and master a lottery, in which the prizes bear no proportion to the enormous number of blanks. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

#blanks #children #education #enormous #facts