Lafayette Quotes

16 quotes from 13 authors

Lafayette appears in places, from fierce women of ancient poetry to a hidden tech hotspot in Louisiana. Sixteen snippets show how the name fuses artistic spirit with entrepreneurial spark, linking past rebellions to today’s labs. If this resonates, you might also explore Dynamics, Parenting, and Relationship Resilience pages for collections.

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For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.

Cesare Pavese

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“No one has more resilience or matches my practical, tactical brilliance!”

Anonymous

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There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate. —MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE

Michelle Moran

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Silicon Bayou - aka Lafayette, LA - is the best kept secret reservoir of innovation mojo in America

Todd Park

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“We’re immigrants. We get the job done. Alexander Hamilton to the Marquis de Lafayette me (at centre-stage)”

Lin-Manuel Miranda

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Lafayette saw himself as the protector of royalty; they [the king and his family] considered him its gaoler.

William Doyle

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158 Lewis Avenue between Lafayette and Van Buren, that was back durin days of hangin' on my bed-stuy block

Big Daddy Kane

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Ambition, as that passion is generally understood,- a strong desire to rise above others, to occupy the first place, - formed no…

Marquis de Lafayette

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“Lafayette was a splendid man...with a marvelous, self-depreciating sense of humor. He was, for example, balding noticeably when he reached an Indian…

Harlow Giles Unger

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The elimination of force at all costs is Utopian and the new movement which has arisen in the country and of whose…

Bhagat Singh

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Till the hour when the trump of the Archangel shall sound to announce that Time shall be no more, the name of…

Marquis de Lafayette

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When we were shooting in Shreveport, me and a couple of friends went down to Lafayette, because they had a big Zydeco…

Alexander Skarsgard

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Because our right to worship freely and safely, that right was denied to Christians in Charleston, South Carolina, and that was denied…

Barack Obama

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Again I take a taxi to Clichy address, but feel that I do not want to go on loving Henry more actively…

Anais Nin

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America has joined forces with the Allied Powers, and what we have of blood and treasure are yours. Therefore it is that…

Charles E. Stanton

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There are great jazz educators that I meet all the time. I met a guy named Paul Luchessi who has a high…

Jon Gordon

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