#old

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

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

Mankind are divided into sects, and individuals think very differently on religious subjects, from the purest motives; and that gracious common Parent, who loves all his children alike, beholds with approbation every one who worships him in sincerity. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

#approbation #beholds #children #common #differently

Talking with other parents really gave me some lessons that I try to hold on to now, as a parent of two boys. ↗

— Joe Lando

#hold #i #lessons #me #now

Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I think viewers are hungry for shows in which people say something meaningful. ↗

— Michael Landon

#i #i think #maybe #meaningful #old-fashioned

He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue. ↗

— Andrew Lang

#hold #invaluable #missed #opportunity #tongue

That's the difference between golf and many other sports. You go to some other sporting events, they just leave you or give you the cold shoulder and move on. ↗

— Bernhard Langer

#cold #difference #events #give #go

You know, as you get older, the first thing you lose is memory. It seems to be happening with me. ↗

— Bernhard Langer

#first thing #get #happening #know #lose

I wanted to be that cranky old guy that stands on his porch and yells at the neighborhood kids. ↗

— Robert Lansing

#guy #his #i #kids #neighborhood

Space and time, not proteins and neurons, hold the answer to the problem of consciousness. When we consider the nerve impulses entering the brain, we realize that they are not woven together automatically, any more than the information is inside a computer. ↗

— Robert Lanza

#any #automatically #brain #computer #consciousness