Alice Dunbar Quotes

#1. The rainbow is elusive, and its colors but the illumination of tears ...

Alice Dunbar Nelson

#2. In Holland and Belgium, and afterwards in England, my happiest moments were in the country. I've always had a passion for the outdoors, for trees, for birds and flowers.

Audrey Hepburn

#3. Love has more force than a besieging army.

Mahatma Gandhi

#4. I had not thought of violets of late,
The wild, shy kind that springs beneath you feet
In wistful April days.

Alice Dunbar Nelson

#5. She was simpler, less fractured by life during her youth.

Philip Zaleski

#6. In every race, in every nation, and in every clime in every period of history there is always an eager-eyed group of youthful patriots who seriously set themselves to right the wrongs done to their race or nation or ... art or self-expression.

Alice Dunbar Nelson

#7. Every new fad or fashion at once has its denouncers from the pulpit, platform, professor's chair.

Alice Dunbar Nelson

#8. Environmental planning has been too scientific, too man-centred, too past-fixated and two-dimensional.

Tom Turner

#9. Picturesqueness is a lost art. We may expect at anytime to hear that a collar ad is blazing its electric lights atop of the largest pyramid.

Alice Dunbar Nelson

#10. Nothing will do me any good unless I learn to control this body of mine.

Alice Dunbar Nelson

#11. I am profoundly in the D's - discouraged, depressed, disheartened, disgusted.

Alice Dunbar Nelson

#12. Didacticism is the death of art ...

Alice Dunbar Nelson

#13. It's punishment to be compelled to do what one doesn't wish.

Alice Dunbar Nelson

#14. I used to joke that I came to England - not to the U.S. where most Koreans go - because I like Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie.

Ha-Joon Chang

#15. Willow trees are kind, Dear God. They will not bear a body on their limbs.

Alice Dunbar Nelson

#16. Blue. My God! I'm so blue that if I were a dog, I'd sit on my haunches and howl and howl and howl ...

Alice Dunbar Nelson

#17. By creating the European Central Bank, the member states exposed their own government bonds to the risk of default. Developed countries that issue bonds in their own currency never default, because they can always print money. Their currency may depreciate, but the risk of default is absent.

George Soros