Lap Quotes - page 2

Why can't we build orphanages next to homes for the elderly? If someone were sitting in a rocker, it wouldn't be long before a kid will be in his lap. (Cloris Leachman)
Just as a mother finds pleasure in taking her little child on her lap, there to feed and caress him, in like manner our loving God shows His fondness for His beloved souls who have given themselves entirely to Him and have placed all their hope in His goodness. View quote
Alphonsus Liguori
Sometimes in life, things just fall in to my lap. I'm very blessed that way. View quote
Aileen Quinn
I am going to miss that time when you take that corner better than anybody else could have taken it on that lap or you do that great qualifying lap or you make that great pass or you bring a crippled car home. View quote
Bobby Rahal
With the help of a friend I got father into a wagon, when the crowd had gone. I held his head in my lap during the ride home. I believed he was mortally wounded. He had been stabbed down through the kidneys, leaving an ugly wound. View quote
Buffalo Bill
This directing thing just sort of fell my way and landed in my lap. View quote
Charles S. Dutton
He is accelerating all the time. That last lap was run in 64 seconds and the one before in 62. View quote
David Coleman
F1 teams need a driver who will consistently set lap times that are 100 percent on the edge. View quote
Jean Alesi
My mother went to a school called 'The Club of the Three Wise Monkeys'. And my grandmother, my father's mother, had a gold charm for her made with the speak no, see no, hear no evil monkeys. And I was fascinated by that charm. I'd sit in my mother's lap and play with it all the time. View quote
Mackenzie Phillips
That was one of the things that interested me about the character. He doesn't want to be a hero, and has no real desire to save the earth or discover aliens. He's sniffing around looking to see what will fall in his lap. View quote
Orlando Jones
Everything that ever happened to me fell in my lap. (Oveta Culp Hobby)
You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't. View quote
Sam Mendes
When Liza Minelli was a child, she used to sit on my lap and call me Uncle Sammy. View quote
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Things are forgotten and then perhaps picked up again, if we're lucky, it lasts... if not, then it's in the lap of the gods. The important thing was to do some work that I liked and hopefully that some others might also like, whether for a minute, a week, a month, a year. View quote
Tom Glazer
I never planned on doing a book about Paul Farmer or his organization. I met him in Haiti when I was on a magazine assignment. It's almost like his story sort of fell in my lap. View quote
Tracy Kidder
Great comforts do, indeed, bear witness to the truth of thy grace, but not to the degree of it; the weak child is oftener in the lap than the strong one. View quote
William Gurnall
It's also a question of finding good material and interesting roles. I'm not the only actress out there, and good parts just don't fall into your lap that easily. But I like most of the films I've made recently and so I'm pretty positive about the future. View quote
Winona Ryder
Undocumented aliens unfortunately are not protected by the law and they are tremendously subjected to exploitation. The result is that they would be willing to work for a wage that no person who is welcome in our shores would, would take. I think the answer to that problem is in Congress' lap. People who have been hardworking, tax paying, those people ought to be given an opportunity to be on a track that leads towards citizenship and if that happened, then they wouldn't be prey to the employers who say "we want you because we know that you work for a salary we could not lawfully pay anyone else." View quote
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
That driving incident, I did it with my dad. I'd sit on his lap and I drive. We're country. View quote
Britney Spears
I think I'm being friendly with someone and I'll sit in their lap. They think I'm flirting with them. View quote
Kylie Minogue
Stella: And when he comes back I cry on his lap like a baby.. [she smiles to herself] Blanche: I guess that is what is meant by being in love.. (Tennessee Williams)
Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
I felt the smooth wooden floor beneath my knees, and then the palms of my hands, and then it was pressed against the skin of my cheek. I hoped that I was fainting, but, to my disappointment, I didn't lose consciousness. The waves of pain that had only lapped at me before now reared high up and washed over my head, pulling me under. I did not resurface. View quote
Stephenie Meyer
Dave (Catching) played lap steel, a little guitar, keys and did a lot of drinking. View quote
Josh Homme
In a situation like that I know I would have been scared stiff. But I am sure that when Gilles felt his Ferrari take off, his last thought was anger, plain and simple, because he knew that he had spoiled that one perfect lap. View quote
Gilles Villeneuve