Top 100 Dunbar Quotes

#1. A Georgia volunteer, afterward a colonel in the Confederate service, said: "I fought through the civil war and have seen men shot to pieces and slaughtered by thousands, but the Cherokee removal was the cruelest work I ever knew."34

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Dunbar Quotes #24218
#2. Having had nothing, I will not settle for crumbs.

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Dunbar Quotes #29084
#3. The only thing going on was a war, and no one seemed to notice but Yossarian and Dunbar. And when Yossarian tried to remind people, they drew away from him and thought he was crazy.

Joseph Heller

Dunbar Quotes #59670
#4. The age is materialistic. Verse isn't. I must be with the age, so I am writing prose.

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Dunbar Quotes #64625
#5. Nothing will do me any good unless I learn to control this body of mine.

Alice Dunbar Nelson

Dunbar Quotes #95368
#6. Something deep in the human psyche has always seemed to yearn for ever more enhanced levels of savagery.

Robert Dunbar

Dunbar Quotes #97946
#7. Every hunchback has his gypsy, each phantom his diva, and flames of passion consume witches and martyrs alike. For any lonely monster, tradition demands that one sacrificial soul seek immolation.
Ashe to ashes.
It remains the ultimate, transformative act of love.

Robert Dunbar

Dunbar Quotes #100825
#8. Euro-American colonialism, an aspect of the capitalist economic globalization, had from its beginnings a genocidal tendency.

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Dunbar Quotes #104060
#9. He'd risk everything for you, Sam," Wyatt said. "He'd trade heaven for an eternity in the depths of hell to possess you.

Debra Dunbar

Dunbar Quotes #115303
#10. I hope there is something worthy in my writings and not merely the novelty of a black face associated with the power to rhyme that has attracted attention.

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Dunbar Quotes #128828
#11. 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

Dunbar Quotes #134872
#12. I was a demon. I could find a romantic opportunity in an insect-infested swamp.

Debra Dunbar

Dunbar Quotes #151710
#13. All play and no work makes Jack a mere toy.

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Dunbar Quotes #163819
#14. Among my friends love is a payment. It is an old debt for a borrowing foolishly spent.

William Dunbar

Dunbar Quotes #172933
#15. Never forget the gender of mother earth. This planet is a body through which arterial tides pulse and surge, and within this fluid murk stir serpents, inchoate monstrosities of the amniotic id.

Robert Dunbar

Dunbar Quotes #181613
#16. In his moments of pride he had said all those things, half in fun and half in earnest, and he began to wonder how he could have been so many kinds of a fool for so long without realising it.

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Dunbar Quotes #184480
#17. But a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core.

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Dunbar Quotes #196891
#18. Never get in to it [acting] because you want to do it for the money. Have that passion in your heart, where you would do it for free just because you absolutely love it. If you just want to do it because you want to be famous, then go do reality TV.

Rockmond Dunbar

Dunbar Quotes #197773
#19. Keep away, keep away," Hungry Joe screamed. "I said keep away, keep away, you goddam stinking lousy son of a bitch." "At least we found out what he dreams about," Dunbar observed wryly. "He dreams about goddam stinking lousy sons of bitches.

Joseph Heller

Dunbar Quotes #208696
#20. Taking it all in all and after all, negro life in Washington is a promise rather than a fulfillment. But it is worthy of note for the really excellent things which are promised

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Dunbar Quotes #229982
#21. We believe in ghosts as sincerely as we believe in the very poor.

Olivia Howard Dunbar

Dunbar Quotes #279554
#22. Columbus Day is still a federal holiday despite Columbus never having set foot on any territory ever claimed by the United States.

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Dunbar Quotes #289445
#23. Training a puppy is like raising a child. Every single interaction is a training opportunity.

Ian Dunbar

Dunbar Quotes #296148
#24. Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive.

William Dunbar

Dunbar Quotes #298025
#25. I also played with Jimi Hendrix. Jimi would come down and sit in with Retaliation and we would have a ball. He offered me the gig with him at 20 pounds a week, which at that point, was like 60 bucks.

Aynsley Dunbar

Dunbar Quotes #306756
#26. Wow, he's alive." I wasn't being sarcastic. I truly was surprised that the girls hadn't turned Dalmai into angelic hamburger. "We figured you might want to interrogate him then throw him into Hel with the other one.

Debra Dunbar

Dunbar Quotes #324945
#27. Poor conceited humanity! Interpreters of God indeed.

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Dunbar Quotes #336940
#28. Willow trees are kind, Dear God. They will not bear a body on their limbs.

Alice Dunbar Nelson

Dunbar Quotes #343403
#29. This, this indeed is to be accursed,
For if we mortals love, or if we sing,
We count our joys not by what we have,
But by what kept us from that perfect thing.

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Dunbar Quotes #355217
#30. I'm assuming the widened eyes and squished up mouth are your way of entreating me to take you to the train station and help you question the humans. Either that or you're constipated." "I'm not constipated." I resumed The Look.

Debra Dunbar

Dunbar Quotes #356704
#31. The best revenge is to live well, and rub their noses in it when you're old and powerful.

Debra Dunbar

Dunbar Quotes #379898
#32. I'm the Iblis. There's a sword, and it's magical, and I can locate demons. It was total bullshit, but I'm not good at making stuff up on the fly.

Debra Dunbar

Dunbar Quotes #384007
#33. Our pleasance here is all vain glory, This false world is but transitory.

William Dunbar

Dunbar Quotes #405729
#34. Independent radical women often live lonely lives if they expect equality.

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Dunbar Quotes #409201
#35. Maybe a person had to lose everything to find purpose.

Robert Dunbar

Dunbar Quotes #411274
#36. If my landlord hadn't been so vehement about the no-pets clause in my lease, I probably would already have at least two cats roaming my apartment. I was considering taking up knitting. Well, no, not the last one, but I did miss having a pet. And the dating situation was becoming dire.

Debra Dunbar

Dunbar Quotes #414276
#37. Quiet is really just a lot of small noises that most people don't notice.

Robert Dunbar

Dunbar Quotes #456740
#38. Hope is tenacious. It goes on living and working when science has dealt it what should be its deathblow.

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Dunbar Quotes #457918
#39. Irix, my beloved klepto.

Debra Dunbar

Dunbar Quotes #485932
#40. There was really nothing pressing for me to do beyond pouring bubble bath in the fountain at City Hall.

Debra Dunbar

Dunbar Quotes #506244
#41. It's punishment to be compelled to do what one doesn't wish.

Alice Dunbar Nelson

Dunbar Quotes #509248
#42. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light.

Evelyn Dunbar

Dunbar Quotes #517930
#43. One of the quickest ways to a cat's brain is through its stomach.

Ian Dunbar

Dunbar Quotes #523042
#44. A song fluttered down in the form of a dove,
And it bore me a message, the one word-Love!

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Dunbar Quotes #526644
#45. There was no established procedure for evasive action. All you needed was fear, and Yossarian had plenty of that, more fear than Orr or Hungry Joe, more fear even than Dunbar, who had resigned himself submissively to the idea that he must die someday

Joseph Heller

Dunbar Quotes #527865
#46. It's either this or the vodka. Trust me; you don't want to drink the vodka. It takes half the flesh from the inside of your throat on the way down, and you wake up the next morning feeling as if a major portion of your brains are on the outside of your skull. Most unpleasant.

Debra Dunbar

Dunbar Quotes #539774
#47. Even in the wood, there was a right road and a wrong one. All the most terrifying fairy tales inevitably began with some foolish innocent (or two) straying from the path. Then anything might happen.

Robert Dunbar

Dunbar Quotes #547409
#48. a favourite couplet of Dunbar's sums up his view of the whole duty and delight of Man:

Man, please thy Maker and be merry
And give not for this world a cherry.

Jocelyn Gibb

Dunbar Quotes #588190
#49. Long before haunted houses existed, haunted woods circled the globe. Homer knew it. The Brothers Grimm knew it. In legend, all the great mythic quests of self-discovery begin with the hero entering a dark wood. Some journeys also end there.

Robert Dunbar

Dunbar Quotes #588294
#50. Andrew Jackson was the implementer of the final solution for the Indigenous peoples east of the Mississippi. Andrew

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Dunbar Quotes #634160
#51. I could speak to you and say, 'Laytay-chai, paisey, paisey.' ... Why aren't you responding? Oh, you don't speak Swahili. Well, I've got news for you. The dog doesn't speak English, or American, or Spanish, or French.

Ian Dunbar

Dunbar Quotes #644161
#52. Didacticism is the death of art ...

Alice Dunbar Nelson

Dunbar Quotes #655018
#53. They were all so young and so aware of it. Youth comprised their sole asset, which each understood, and such knowledge excited them as much as it haunted them.

Robert Dunbar

Dunbar Quotes #661777
#54. The history of the United States is a history of settler colonialism - the founding of a state based on the ideology of white supremacy, the widespread practice of African slavery, and a policy of genocide and land theft.

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Dunbar Quotes #666437
#55. I know what the caged bird feels, alas!

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Dunbar Quotes #700586
#56. What's the one thing so terrible that you've never told anyone? The one thing no one could ever forgive?" She stares hard into him. "The one thing no one could possibly know about and still love you?

Robert Dunbar

Dunbar Quotes #735318
#57. I am profoundly in the D's - discouraged, depressed, disheartened, disgusted.

Alice Dunbar Nelson

Dunbar Quotes #737732
#58. The rainbow is elusive, and its colors but the illumination of tears ...

Alice Dunbar Nelson

Dunbar Quotes #740925
#59. The Texan wanted everybody in the ward to be happy but Yossarian and Dunbar. He was really very sick.

Joseph Heller

Dunbar Quotes #791352
#60. And Dunbar points out that in our ultrasocial species, success is largely a matter of playing the social game well. It's not what you know, it's who you know.

Jonathan Haidt

Dunbar Quotes #802521
#61. Be patient. Always be kind. Stand in the middle of the river. Be prepared. It [success] will all come. Don't be in such a rush.

Rockmond Dunbar

Dunbar Quotes #850832
#62. It's all a farce, - these tales they tell About the breezes sighing, And moans astir o'er field and dell, Because the year is dying.

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Dunbar Quotes #852922
#63. The continuity between invading and occupying sovereign Indigenous nations in order to achieve continental control in North America and employing the same tactics overseas to achieve global control is key to understanding the future of the United States in the world. The

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Dunbar Quotes #858046
#64. The unfortunate Elizabeth Bathori was said to bathe in the blood of young girls in order to preserve her youth and beauty. Apparently more than 600 maidens went down the drain before anyone noticed something amiss at the castle. How very inobservant the neighbors must have been.

Robert Dunbar

Dunbar Quotes #859042
#65. I'm really, really tired of the past

Helene Dunbar

Dunbar Quotes #862491
#66. 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

Dunbar Quotes #869340
#67. In primates at least, infanticide seems to have been the crucial factor driving the evolution of monogamous mating systems.

Robin I.M. Dunbar

Dunbar Quotes #894888
#68. Love me, honey, love me true?
Love me well ez I love you?
An' she answe'd, " 'Cose I do"
Jump back, honey, jump back.

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Dunbar Quotes #895563
#69. Oaths were important to word correctly, but Gregory could be forgiven for his lapse. It wasn't every day that his demon lover took a member of his choir hostage, beat the shit out of the guy and kept him a starving captive in her basement.

Debra Dunbar

Dunbar Quotes #898561
#70. Well, the Taco Bell burrito scale of immense magnitude returned an 'r' factor of point eight six. Then when I applied the nose-picking coefficient, I discovered a multivariate numeration of nine dot oh sixteen on the Richter scale.

Debra Dunbar

Dunbar Quotes #913087
#71. When I'm training a dog, I develop a relationship with that dog. He's my buddy, and I want to make training fun.

Ian Dunbar

Dunbar Quotes #927101
#72. Something new prowled, something voracious and well-adapted to this environment. Something bad. Even the wood seemed to shiver with fear. And, no, trees do not make a sound when they fall in the forest with no one around to hear. But just before they fall, they scream.

Robert Dunbar

Dunbar Quotes #952130
#73. A minute to smile and an hour to weep in, A pint of joy to a peck of trouble, And never a laugh but the moans come double; And that is life!

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Dunbar Quotes #976639
#74. To God be humble, to thy friend be kind, and with thy neighbors gladly lend and borrow; His chance tonight, it maybe thine tomorrow.

William Dunbar

Dunbar Quotes #978215
#75. You are sweet, O Love, dear Love,You are soft as the nesting dove.Come to my heart and bring it restAs the bird flies home to its welcome nest.

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Dunbar Quotes #983784
#76. London, thou art the flower of cities all!

William Dunbar

Dunbar Quotes #989114
#77. So what does correlate with brain size? The answer, Dunbar argues, is group size. If you look at any species of primate-at every variety of monkey and ape-the larger their neocortex is, the larger the average size of the groups they live with.

Malcolm Gladwell

Dunbar Quotes #999457
#78. Even for an inbred clan deep in the swamp, she thought they might well be considered a peculiar bunch, but then the family always had run to eccentricity.

Robert Dunbar

Dunbar Quotes #1018356
#79. European institutions and the worldview of conquest and colonialism had formed several centuries before that. From the eleventh through the thirteenth centuries, Europeans conducted the Crusades to conquer North Africa and the Middle East, leading to unprecedented wealth in the hands of a few.

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Dunbar Quotes #1032887
#80. After all, the male ego was a horrible thing.

Robert Dunbar

Dunbar Quotes #1038585
#81. Even the spate of clearly well-intentioned films about AIDS only added to the certainty that gay characters wind up dead by the final reel. After all, in the movies, no one lives with HIV ... perhaps the ultimate stigmatization.

Robert Dunbar

Dunbar Quotes #1039098
#82. Well, maybe it's true,' Clevinger conceded unwillingly in a subdued tone. 'Maybe a long life does have to be filled with many unpleasant conditions if it's to seem long. But in that event, who wants one?'
'I do,' Dunbar told him.
'Why?' Clevinger asked.
'What else is there?

Joseph Heller

Dunbar Quotes #1040119
#83. affinities under the crust of colonialism. This brief overview of precolonial North America suggests the magnitude of what was lost to all humanity and counteracts the settler-colonial myth of the wandering Neolithic hunter.

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Dunbar Quotes #1043460
#84. The most revered presidents - Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln, Wilson, both Roosevelts, Truman, Kennedy, Reagan, Clinton, Obama - have each advanced populist imperialism while gradually increasing inclusion of other groups beyond the core of descendants of old settlers into the ruling mythology.

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Dunbar Quotes #1052398
#85. Out of everything - out of the money and the gift bags - the most important thing to me is just my mother and father being happy.

Rockmond Dunbar

Dunbar Quotes #1068929
#86. It's not about slaying monsters," he told her. "Not these days. I think it's about learning to live with them. Anyway who says we're the good guys?" "I

Robert Dunbar

Dunbar Quotes #1069355
#87. Learning from wolves to interact with pet dogs makes about as much sense as, 'I want to improve my parenting - let's see how the chimps do it!'

Ian Dunbar

Dunbar Quotes #1072152
#88. Every new fad or fashion at once has its denouncers from the pulpit, platform, professor's chair.

Alice Dunbar Nelson

Dunbar Quotes #1076194
#89. He was being patient and respectful of my wishes

L.B. Dunbar

Dunbar Quotes #1078527
#90. Dr. Dunbar would never consider not answering the call of duty.

Larry Watson

Dunbar Quotes #1086182
#91. They spring from deep within us, these nightmares, these folktales. They speak of our deepest needs, the ones we have all been taught since childhood never to put into words, because dreams reveal our other face, the one we keep hidden, the Hyde to mankind's collective Jekyll.

Robert Dunbar

Dunbar Quotes #1090968
#92. Do I look like I'm compelled to do anything? Do I seriously look like anyone could compel me to even bring them a coaster?"
She looked me over again. "You look like you're compelled to cause trouble, but I doubt that's the boss' directive.

Debra Dunbar

Dunbar Quotes #1093806
#93. Give yourself room to make mistakes because you're human. We've got to make mistakes, and allow ourselves to make those mistakes.

Rockmond Dunbar

Dunbar Quotes #1104828
#94. Here, rancid air hangs heavily in a void, its texture thick, liquid, clinging, in a night full of the hot smells of decay.

Robert Dunbar

Dunbar Quotes #1157909
#95. I know why the caged bird sings, ah me, When his wing is bruised and his bosom sore,- When he beats his bars and would be free; It is not a carol of joy or glee, But a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core, But a plea, that upward to Heaven he flings- I know why the caged bird sings!

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Dunbar Quotes #1176272
#96. 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

Dunbar Quotes #1188530
#97. I was reckless and crazy and I never learned from my past mistakes. Ever.

Debra Dunbar

Dunbar Quotes #1197719
#98. The caste system, in all its various forms, is always based on identifiable physical characteristics - sex, color, age.

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Dunbar Quotes #1197795
#99. I grew up on a farm and my grandfather quit school when he was 12, but when it came to common sense and animals, he was the smartest person I've ever met, before or since. He taught me that to touch an animal is an earned privilege. It's not a right.

Ian Dunbar

Dunbar Quotes #1202612
#100. Shortly, some pipeline worker or shipfitter would slow down.

Tony Dunbar

Dunbar Quotes #1205043

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