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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 Lafayette shall stand enrolled upon the annals of our race, high on the list of the pure and disinterested benefactors of mankind.

    Race   Names   Sound  
  • When we were shooting in Shreveport, me and a couple of friends went down to Lafayette, because they had a big Zydeco music festival down there. We spent two days dancing to Zydeco music, eating fried alligator... It was one of the craziest festivals I've ever been to in my life, but I loved it.

    Couple   Two   Dancing  
    Interview with Win Butler, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 23, 2011.
  • For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.

    History   Doe   Lafayette  
    Cesare Pavese (1961). “The Burning Brand: Diaries 1935-1950”, New York : Walker
  • There are great jazz educators that I meet all the time. I met a guy named Paul Luchessi who has a high school jazz program in Fresno. And Bob Athayde who runs a junior high program in Lafayette, California. And man, we walked into these schools and Paul Luchessi said, "Jon is the composer of Paradox." A hundred or something kids started to applaud. "What? You guys know that? I'm so blown away.

    Running   School   Kids  
  • The elimination of force at all costs is Utopian and the new movement which has arisen in the country and of whose dawn we have given a warning is inspired by the ideals which Guru Gobind Singh and Shivaji, Kamal Pasha and Reza Khan, Washington and Garibaldi, Lafayette and Lenin preached.

    Country   Dawn   Cost  
    "Trials of Independence" by B. R. Agarwala, National Book Trust, India, (p. 128), 1991.
  • Silicon Bayou - aka Lafayette, LA - is the best kept secret reservoir of innovation mojo in America

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

  • Ambition, as that passion is generally understood,- a strong desire to rise above others, to occupy the first place, - formed no part of Lafayette's character. In him the passion was nothing more than a constant and irresistible wish to do good.

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

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

    Kings   Lafayette   Saws  
  • Again I take a taxi to Clichy address, but feel that I do not want to go on loving Henry more actively than he loves me (having realized that nobody will ever love me in that overabundant, overexpressive, overthoughtful, overhuman way I love people), and so I will wait for him. So I ask taxi driver to drop me at the Galeries Lafayette, where I begin to look for a new hat and to shop for Christmas. Pride? I don't know. A kind of wise retreat. I need people too much. So I bury my gigantic defect, my overflow of love, under trivialities, like a child. I amuse myself with a new hat.

    Wise   Children   Pride  
  • Because our right to worship freely and safely, that right was denied to Christians in Charleston, South Carolina, and that was denied Jews in Kansas City, and that was denied Muslims in Chapel Hill, and Sikhs in Oak Creek. They had rights too. Our right to peaceful assembly, that right was robbed from movie goers in Aurora and Lafayette.

    Source: www.msnbc.com
  • America has joined forces with the Allied Powers, and what we have of blood and treasure are yours. Therefore it is that with loving pride we drape the colors in tribute of respect to this citizen of your great republic. And here and now, in the presence of the illustrious dead, we pledge our hearts and our honor in carrying this war to a successful issue. Lafayette, we are here.

    Military   War   Heart  
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