Famous quotes containing the words alice dunbar, alice, dunbar, moore and/or nelson:
“And now—unwittingly, you’ve made me dream
Of violets, and my soul’s forgotten gleam.”
—Alice Dunbar Moore Nelson (1875–1935)
““Take some more tea,” the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly.
“I’ve had nothing yet,” Alice replied in an offended tone: “so I ca’n’t take more.”
“You mean you ca’n’t take less,” said the Hatter: “it’s very easy to take more than nothing.””
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)
“An angel, robed in spotless white,
Bent down and kissed the sleeping Night.
Night woke to blush; the sprite was gone.
Men saw the blush and called it Dawn.”
—Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906)
“And now—unwittingly, you’ve made me dream
Of violets, and my soul’s forgotten gleam.”
—Alice Dunbar Moore Nelson (1875–1935)
“Where did we ever get the crazy idea that in order to make children do better, first we have to make them feel worse? Think of the last time you felt humiliated or treated unfairly. Did you feel like cooperating or doing better?”
—Jane Nelson (20th century)