M. E. Lazarus Quotes

When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not.

Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.

Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there.

Belief and delusion are incestuous siblings.

To me, part of being an emcee is dedicated to speaking out about what's going on around us.

Kindle the taper like the steadfast star Ablaze on evening's forehead o'er the earth, And add each night a lustre till afar An eightfold splendor shine above thy hearth.

The secret of dealing successfully with a child is not to be its parent.

Until we are all free, we are none of us free.

Life's sharpest rapture is surcease of pain.

My own curiosity and interest are insatiable.

There is no comfort looking forth nor back, The present gives the lie to all her past.

I am never going to write for the sake of writing.

No man had ever heard a nightingale, When once a keen-eyed naturalist was stirred To study and define -- what is a bird.

Still ours the dance, the feast, the glorious Psalm, The mystic lights of emblem, and the Word.

I've always felt a confidence in what I do from the simple fact that I know I represent my own life.

When angels visit earth, the messengers Of God's decree, they come as lightning, wind: Before the throne, they all are living fire.

I seem to have always one little window looking but into life.

Jews are the intensive form of any nationality whose language and customs they adopt.

The secret of life is to skip having children and go directly to grandchildren.

Thou two-faced year, Mother of Change and Fate...

It seemed that we loved each other better when there were large swaths of two continents between us. The daily work of love was often hard to perform at home.

Rapping about a surgery is something that makes sense for me to do.

There will always be good and bad in every community.

Your nightmares follow you like a shadow, forever.

The soul, at peace, reflects the peace without, Forgetting grief as sunset skies forget The morning's transient shower.

All the lives I could live, all the people I will never know, never will be, they are everywhere. That is all that the world is.

We are all humans and all deserve the same respect and attention.

My philosophy has always been to stand with all countries and all humanity.

I don't have any problem with coverage of victims in France. My heart goes out to anyone who was hurt or killed over there.

Poetry must be simple, sensuous, or impassioned.

Naught is too small and soft to turn and sting.

Muslims are the new mutants of today's society.

I don't try to rap about or emulate the life of another person.

Every vote for a governing office is an instrument for enslaving me.

Business can't trump happiness.

No movie becomes a hit without good reviews and word-of-mouth. No agency ever became a great brand by merely saying it was great - in advertising or by any other medium.

Colleen had this idea -- a faded, crumpled, smudged idea -- that being nice counted for something.

That was how it always was with Colleen: No matter how sad she felt, there was always this little bit of hope - like a speck of glitter caught in your eyelash - that never went away, no matter what.

we see that an aspect of the work of the masses consists in investigating and opening up the question of names

No matter how much you water the ground, if the ground holds no seed then no plant is coming out. Don’t expect the plant to come out unless you have sown a seed

Love is the fertile ground that allows obedience to sprout & flourish

Wisdom is the ability to ignore foolishness

PRUNING can be PAINFUL yet it brings PROSPERITY

Selfish leadership is okay with the failure of the successor so as to ensure that any form of praise will continue to be heaped on them

We are not just the leaders of tomorrow. Leadership is not a destination, leadership is a lifetime journey

No matter how much you water the ground, if the ground holds no seed then no plant is coming out. Don’t expect the plant to come out unless you have sown the seed

Great leadership is a reflection of honest service

The spotlight does not change a person, it simply reveals what one has mastered in the darkness

I am sorry, I was wrong and it’s my fault, these are words only accustomed to humble leadership

Diplomacy in leadership is winning the war on behalf of both sides