Gabriela Mistral Quotes

Many things we need can wait. The child cannot. Now is the time his bones are formed, his mind developed. To him we cannot say tomorrow, his name is today.

Gabriela Mistral

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: chilean
  • Birth: April 7, 1889 - January 10, 1957

Topics

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Poverty does not make people terrorists, but terrorists can exploit the frustration it creates and use it as a breeding-ground for violent ideas.

Anna Lindh

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It would be fun to be a redhead... you can get away with being, like, really volatile and fire-y because you're like, 'I'm just a redhead; what can I say?'

Anna Kendrick

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I had to do a lot of dancing in 'Queens of Country.'

Lizzy Caplan

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Dancers use their bodies in extraordinary ways, so we are chronically pre-arthritic, because of how we use our muscles and our bones.

Judith Jamison

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If you can go out with your live show and turn people on to that, where you have that fan base that's religious and they're going to come see you when you're in that town, once your radio success is gone and you're not a mainstream guy anymore you can still go out and play your shows.

Jason Aldean

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My main source of reading is scripts, which doesn't leave a whole lot of room for books.

Josh Hutcherson

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While admirers of capitalism, we also to a certain extent believe it has limitations that require government intervention in markets to make them work.

Janet Yellen

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My heart is broken in the face of the stupidity of my species.

Joni Mitchell

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I don't want to flee, nor do I want to abandon the battle of these farmers who live without any protection in the forest. They have the sacrosanct right to aspire to a better life on land where they can live and work with dignity while respecting the environment.

Dorothy Stang

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Unfortunately, diet is 75 or 80 percent of trying to get in shape, so you do have to try to cut the carbs. The diet's a huge part! I'm from Kansas, so I love ranch dressing and McDonald's. When I'm working, I have to stay away from all that!

Colton Haynes

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New Orleans may well have been the most liberal Deep South city in 1954 because of its large Creole population, the influence of the French, and its cosmopolitan atmosphere.

Constance Baker Motley

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It's just a matter of understanding what's necessary and discipline yourself to do it.

Arthur Lydiard

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