Quote

Grace arrived, like the big, loopy stitches with which a grandmotherly stranger might baste your hem temporarily.

Anne Lamott

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Arrived
Stranger
Grace
Bigs
Might
Loopy
Like
Hem
Stitches
Temporarily

More quotes by Anne Lamott

Image
I'd like to learn to meditate with more enthusiasm. I can sit down and get quiet for 20 minutes, but it just has not been a part of my Christianity at all.
Anne Lamott
Image
Summer nearly does me in every year. It's too hot and the light is unforgiving and the days go on way too long.
Anne Lamott
Image
I am going to try to pay attention to the spring. I am going to look around at all the flowers, and look up at the hectic trees. I am going to close my eyes and listen.
Anne Lamott
Image
If I were going to begin practicing the presence of God for the first time today, it would help to begin by admitting the three most terrible truths of our existence: that we are so ruined, and so loved, and in charge of so little.
Anne Lamott
Image
The whistle is always waiting to be blown, and in some ways, it gets me to do better work.
Anne Lamott
Image
Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere... You don't have to dress up, for instance, and you can't hear them boo you right away.
Anne Lamott
Image
I do not have deep theological understanding or opinion, but I do not read the Bible as the literal word of God.
Anne Lamott
Image
I'm not going to change the way people think about me, but I can say you know what? I'm not going to carry that in my backpack.
Anne Lamott
Image
Trying to reason with an addict was like trying to blow out a lightbulb.
Anne Lamott
Image
Writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surprises.
Anne Lamott
Image
All parents are an embarrassment to their kids. Often grandparents are the relief. Kids don't have to resist you.
Anne Lamott
Image
Right foot, left foot, right foot, breathe.
Anne Lamott
Image
There are moments when I am writing when I think that if other people knew how I felt right now, they’d burn me at the stake for feeling so good, so full, so much intense pleasure.
Anne Lamott
Image
The depth of the feeling continued to surprise and threaten me, but each time it hit again and I bore it...I would discover that it hadn't washed me away.
Anne Lamott
Image
Creative expression, whether that means writing, dancing, bird-watching, or cooking, can give a person almost everything that he or she has been searching for: enlivenment, peace, meaning, and the incalculable wealth of time spent quietly in beauty.
Anne Lamott
Image
Again and again I tell God I need help, and God says, 'Well, isn't that fabulous? Because I need help too. So you go get that old woman over there some water, and I'll figure out what we're going to do about your stuff.
Anne Lamott
Image
I've heard people say that God is the gift of desperation, and there's a lot to be said for having really reached a bottom where you've run out of any more good ideas or plans for everybody else's behavior or how to save and fix and rescue or just get out of a huge mess, possibly of your own creation.
Anne Lamott
Image
My family tends to be pretty alcoholic and drug-addicted.
Anne Lamott
Image
All I ever wanted since I arrived here on earth are the same things I needed as a baby, to go from cold to warm, lonely to held, the vessel to the giver, empty to full.
Anne Lamott
Image
I like to read away as much of the afternoon as possible, until real life rears its ugly head.
Anne Lamott