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Alphonse de Lamartine Quotes

Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: french
Birth: October 21, 1790 - February 28, 1869

Topics

World Person Sometimes Missing Whole

I many no longer depend on pleasant impulses to bring me before the Lord. I must rather response to principles I know to be right, whether I feel them to be enjoyable or not.

Me Feel Know Principles Depend Lord

The voiceless and most defenseless ones are the animals, so most of my attention goes to them.

Attention Animals Most Voiceless

That's what I'd like to think that my reputation is - being honest.

Reputation Think Being Honest Honest

People expect me to be funnier.

People Me Expect Funnier

Voting is our right, but it is also our responsibility because if we don't take the next step and elect leaders who are committed to building a better future for our kids, other rights - our rights to clean air, clean water, health, and prosperity - are placed directly in harm's way.

Future Health Water Responsibility

You will not get a Google alert when you fall in love.

Love You Fall Will Google Get

One has to take initiative in life to achieve what he or she wants.

Donald Johanson

Life Achieve Initiative She Take He

I lived in an all-black neighborhood, followed by an all-white one, and other kids in the always called me Mexican in both neighborhoods.

Me Always Mexican Lived Neighborhood

My parents never condescended to me. As a child, I always sat at the head of our dinner table. I was always given a lot of responsibility.

Responsibility Child Parents Dinner

For most of my writing life, I've refused to allow myself to believe that writing was a significant form of action. I always felt very uneasy about the fact that all I did was write in a situation as desperate as apartheid South Africa. Whether I was correct or not is a different issue.

Life Myself Writing Action Believe

No one wants to watch anybody play baseball in a movie. What is interesting is what baseball means or sports in general means to those people doing it.

Sports Baseball People Interesting

I've heard New York actors say Chicago actors intimidate them because apparently we're the real nitty-gritty actors who're in a town where being onstage doesn't necessarily get you anything except your craft.

New York You New Chicago Say Craft

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