L. E. Landon Quotes

Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows.

Imagination is to love what gas is to the balloon-that which raises it from earth.

Most of us are in this more than just for playing soccer. We're in it for the bigger goal - to move it along for the next generation.

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Most people do not see the world as it is. They see it as they are

You can never say all the tricks have been done. Someone always shows you something you didn't know. Every year you think, 'Gee, I didn't think you could do that'.

Life has been good to me. It's not like I missed an awful lot. I had a pretty good lick here. Every moment gets a little more important.

I think hearts are very much like glasses. If they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time.

I've got nine kids, nine dogs, three grandkids - and one in the oven. And three parrots!

I've fought hard and now I'm weary to the bone.

Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?

The one thing I need to leave behind is good memories.

Social life is filled with doubts and vain aspirings; solitude, when the imagination is dethroned, is turned to weariness and ennui.

I'm not the kind of person who gives up without a fight.

There are a lot of things in this world that are more important than being popular. Being true to yourself is one of them.

The heart's hushed secret in the soft dark eye.

I'm going to beat this cancer or die trying.

I want people to laugh and cry, not just sit and stare at the TV.

I don't have expectations. Expectations in your life just lead to giant disappointments.

Ah, tell me not that memory Sheds gladness o'er the past; What is recalled by faded flowers, Save that they did not last? Were it not better to forget, Than but remember and regret?

In sad truth, half our forebodings of our neighbors are but our own wishes, which we are ashamed to utter in any other form.

She sat still, trying to hush her secret heart.

I genuinely want to do my best every day, and I genuinely want to enjoy life every day.

Sometimes I wonder if we live life by reliving life, rather than by living life.

The tougher the fight, the more important the mental attitude.

An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.

I used to focus more on scoring. Now I take a lot of pride and pleasure in helping someone else do well.

I believe that there is God in all of us

I felt my father's presence with me, helping me to commit to paper the feelings I had. I really heard my father speaking to me from the other dimension

I believe in God, family, truth between people, the power of love.

there is nothing so easy as to be wise for others; a species of prodigality, by-the-by - for such wisdom is wholly wasted.

Dreaming is one thing, and working towards the dream is one thing, but working with expectations in mind is very self-defeating.

I love winning and any team I'm on, I expect to win.

Ten years ago, the level was nowhere near what it is today. (on soccer in the United States)

As a spectator, you get to watch everything, but I'd much rather be playing than watching. I'll have time to watch later in my career.

I sure am handsome. I cant lie. This is one handsome guy.

Strange mystery of our nature, that those in whom genius develops itself in imagination, thus taking its most ethereal form, should yet be the most dependent on the opinions of others!

A government is free in proportion to the rights it guarantees to the minority.

I think all of us create our own miracles.

The second-highest honor is playing for your country, and the highest honor is wearing the armband for your country. It shows that the players have confidence in me, and that feels good.

You can die of the cure before you die of the illness.

Repentance is a one-faced Janus, ever looking to the past.

I love my work. I've had three successful series, and I want to find out if I can make a fourth.

We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing.

I don't mind dying if I have to, but I'm damned if I want to pay for the guarantee. I'm sorry.

My tears are buried in my heart, like cave-locked fountains sleeping.

Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true; without it, we are little, false, and mean.

Childhood, whose very happiness is love.

One of the greatest of all mental pleasures is to have our thoughts often divined: ever entered into with sympathy.

How often, in this cold and bitter world, is the warm heart thrown back upon itself! Cold, careless, are we of another's grief; we wrap ourselves in sullen selfishness.