Anne Lamott Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“No one is more sentimentalized in America than mothers on Mother's Day, but no one is more often blamed for the culture's bad people and behavior.”

“When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens.”

“Mothers are supposed to listen and, afterward, to respond with some wisdom and perspective, but these things were not my mother's strong suit.”

“I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world.”

“I love readings and my readers, but the din of voices of the audience gives me stage fright, and the din of voices inside whisper that I am a fraud, and that the jig is up. Surely someone will rise up from the audience and say out loud that not only am I not funny and helpful, but I'm annoying, and a phony.”

“The opposite of faith is not doubt: It is certainty. It is madness. You can tell you have created God in your own image when it turns out that he or she hates all the same people you do.”

“I am an Aries. Although I do not believe in astrology, I think this is exactly the right sign to have been born under.”

“I have a very dark sense of humor. I swear. I have a very playful relationship with Jesus.”

“We must not inflict life on children who will be resented; we must not inflict unwanted children on society.”

“I am going to notice the lights of the earth, the sun and the moon and the stars, the lights of our candles as we march, the lights with which spring teases us, the light that is already present.”