Top 31 Emma Lazarus Quotes
#1. 1891-1892 Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of exiles. 1883 The New Colossus by EMMA LAZARUS, written to raise funds to complete the Statue of Liberty
John Jakes
#2. Until we are all free, we are none of us free.
Emma Lazarus
#3. Let our first care today be the re-establishment of our physical strength, the reconstruction of our national organism, so that in future, where the respect due to us cannot be won by entreaty, it may be commanded, and where it cannot be commanded, it may be enforced.
Emma Lazarus
#4. When angels visit earth, the messengers Of God's decree, they come as lightning, wind: Before the throne, they all are living fire.
Emma Lazarus
#5. Naught is too small and soft to turn and sting.
Emma Lazarus
#6. Tick wanted power. He wanted glory. He wanted war, with himself in command. He had raised his army
Jeanne DuPrau
#7. Life's sharpest rapture is surcease of pain.
Emma Lazarus
#8. Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom.
George MacDonald
#9. I seem to have always one little window looking but into life.
Emma Lazarus
#10. Jews are the intensive form of any nationality whose language and customs they adopt.
Emma Lazarus
#11. Thou two-faced year, Mother of Change and Fate ...
Emma Lazarus
#12. Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of exiles.
Emma Lazarus
#13. Poetry must be simple, sensuous, or impassioned.
Emma Lazarus
#14. The soul, at peace, reflects the peace without, Forgetting grief as sunset skies forget The morning's transient shower.
Emma Lazarus
#15. My own curiosity and interest are insatiable.
Emma Lazarus
#17. There is no comfort looking forth nor back, The present gives the lie to all her past.
Emma Lazarus
#18. 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.
Emma Lazarus
#19. Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
Emma Lazarus
#20. No man had ever heard a nightingale, When once a keen-eyed naturalist was stirred To study and define
what is a bird.
Emma Lazarus
#21. I am never going to write for the sake of writing.
Emma Lazarus
#22. If you type 'Salt Flats' into YouTube, you'll find 100 amazing videos that were shot out there, but you won't find any that were shot in the rain.
Casey Neistat
#23. The particular article ought in my opinion to be treated with absolute contempt. It is too vile to touch.
Emma Lazarus
#24. Still ours the dance, the feast, the glorious Psalm, The mystic lights of emblem, and the Word.
Emma Lazarus
#25. God's Final Message to His Creation:
'We apologize for the inconvenience.
Douglas Adams
#26. The Jewish problem is as old as history, and assumes in each age a new form. The life or death of millions of human beings hangs upon its solution; its agitation revives the fiercest passions for good and for evil that inflame the human breast.
Emma Lazarus
#27. A bright light at the end of a tunnel can seem warm and inviting, or it can seem mysterious and terrifying. People of the world "all working on their arts and crafts" can seem like heaven or, if you're me, hell.
Mary Roach
#28. The little and the great are joined in one By God's great force. The wondrous golden sun Is linked unto the glow-worm's tiny spark; The eagle soars to heaven in his flight; And in those realms of space, all bathed in light, Soar none except the eagle and the lark.
Emma Lazarus
#29. She was beautiful, without comparison, but she exuded and icy and emotionless aura. She was as hard and as cold as ice and it was difficult to tell whether she was pleased or angry.
Jin Yong
#30. When had the right to live as one wished ever been considered trivial?
Diana Gabaldon
#31. I am perfectly conscious that this contempt and hatred underlies the general tone of the community towards us, and yet when I even remotely hint at the fact that we are not a favorite people I am accused of stirring up strife and setting barriers between the two sects.
Emma Lazarus
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