Lap Quotes - Page 18

• My mom drove like Britney Spears with the steering wheel and me right here [in her lap]. I'm fine, I turned out okay.

  Freddie Prinze, Jr.

  Mom, Wheels, Steering

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• From the town of Lincoln Nebraska with a sawed off .410 on my lap, through the Badlands of Wyoming I killed everything in my path.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Wyoming, Insanity, Nebraska

  Song: Nebraska, Album: Nebraska, 1982

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• Always bet on yourself, no matter what the odds are. It means more to be in the race than watching the victory lap from the stands.

  Pete Wentz

  Motivational, Mean, Race

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• I'm quite happy with the music carrying on. I've never been one to clamor for fame. It just got dumped in my lap. The ambition is definitely not fame. The ambition is to be creative.

  Bryan Adams

  Ambition, Creative, Carrying On

  "QA: Bryan Adams has shot Michael Jackson and Lindsay Lohan, says his daughter his best subject". Q&A with Nicki Gostin, www.foxnews.com. December 11, 2012.

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• I do think, where would kids be if it weren't for you and for the good pediatricians, and for the good parents? I passionately believe in sitting a child on your lap and tracing the lines of the book with your finger, and they can read before they know they can, if you bother enough. I did it with my kids, and they're doing it with their kids now.

  Julie Andrews

  Children, Believe, Book

  "Interview: Julie Andrews Reflects on Writing, Reading, Libraries, and Film". Interview with Leonard Kniffel, americanlibrariesmagazine.org.

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• I believe in destiny. But I also believe that you can’t just sit back and let destiny happen. A lot of times, an opportunity might fall into your lap, but you have to be ready for that opportunity. You can’t sit there waiting on it. A lot of times you are going to have to get out there and make it happen.

  Spike Lee

  Believe, Fall, Opportunity

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• Holding this soft, small living creature in my lap this way, though, and seeing how it slept with complete trust in me, I felt a warm rush in my chest. I put my hand on the cat's chest and felt his heart beating. The pulse was faint and fast, but his heart, like mine, was ticking off the time allotted to his small body with all the restless earnestness of my own.

  Haruki Murakami

  Heart, Cat, Hands

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Oct 29, 2015

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• Few things are more delightful than grandchildren fighting over your lap.

  Doug Larson

  Grandma, Grandmother, Fighting

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• When an eighty-five pound mammal licks your tears away, then tries to sit on your lap, it's hard to feel sad.

  Kristan Higgins

  Dog, Trying, Tears

  Kristan Higgins (2012). “Catch of the Day”, p.75, HQN Books

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• You can pray until you faint, but unless you get up and try to do something, God is not going to put it in your lap.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  God, Christian, Prayer

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• If you are truly a seeker of truth, truth cannot hide from you. It is in the lap of truth that you have happened.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Yoga, Meditation

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