Top 20 Leopold Senghor Quotes
#1. Let us listen to the voices of our Forebears ... In the smoky cabin, souls that wish us well are murmuring.
Leopold Sedar Senghor
#2. What if this were Hell, this absence of sleep, this poet's desert, this pain of living, this dying of not dying, this anguish of shadows, this passion over death and light.
Leopold Sedar Senghor
#3. I think people should think a million times before they give birth. The guilts of motherhood were the worst guilts in the world for me. They were really insurmountable. You see, you are depriving another human being of so many things, and the other party also knows it.
Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
#5. The civilization of the twentieth century cannot be universal except by being a dynamic synthesis of all the cultural values of all civilizations. It will be monstrous unless it is seasoned with the salt of negri-tude, for it will be without the savor of humanity.
Leopold Sedar Senghor
#6. It had been a false spring, a lie like all the other lies, and I found myself wondering it it would ever really come.
Paula McLain
#7. I have always taken care to put an idea or emotion behind my words. I have made it a habit to be suspicious of the mere music of words.
Leopold Sedar Senghor
#8. The equilibrium you admire in me is an unstable one, difficult to maintain. My inner life was split early between the call of the Ancestors and the call of Europe, between the exigencies of black-African culture and those of modern life.
Leopold Sedar Senghor
#9. As much as we teach our kids, the process teaches us. If we're being diligent, we're learning from our strengths as parents, but also from the mistakes that we make.
Jeffrey Wright
#10. I'm no editor, no artisan, no expert. And certainly no arbiter of what you should buy, wear, or eat.
Blake Lively
#11. Hello? I said, because Charley's House of Pasties seemed wrong.
Darynda Jones
#12. I don't think you could have a 7 with a manual. But I can't see having a BMW sports sedan without a manual.
Thomas Keller
#13. When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
Stendhal
#14. A good corroborating chain, if they fail in the last link, the whole will fall to the ground.
Chris Pratt
#15. The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
James Baldwin
#16. And here in my isolation I can grow stronger. Poetry seems to come of itself, without effort, and I need only let myself dream a little while painting to suggest it.
Paul Gauguin
#17. Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress.
Stephen Ambrose
#19. I was 14 or 15 when I moved to L.A. permanently, but I had been out for pilot season for a few years before that.
Britt Robertson
#20. The [priest] was really my teacher, because I reacted against the things he told me.
Leopold Sedar Senghor
