Georgia Douglas Johnson quote: "I battered the cordons around me/ And cradled my wings on the breeze,/ Then soared to the uttermost reaches/ With rapture, with power, with ease!"

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What later we shall be:
Whose keen discerning eye will scan GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON

Rise with the hour for which you were made.
GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON

I've learned of life this bitter truth/ Hope not between the crumbling walls Of mankind's gratitude ...
GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON

The heart of a woman falls back with the night,/ And enters some alien cage in its plight,/ And trie...
GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON

Judge Casey said his ruling was dictated by a 5 to 4 Supreme Court ruling in 2000, which held that R...
DOUGLAS JOHNSON

Somebody needs to tell the lawmakers who are pushing this nonsense that a constituent is not a lobby...
DOUGLAS JOHNSON

He has supported overturning Roe vs. Wade in the form of aconstitutional amendment to protect the un...
DOUGLAS JOHNSON

We couldn't think any more highly of him.
DOUGLAS JOHNSON

It?s to try to get some guidance on how hard to work to put something together for the (April) 18th ...
DOUGLAS JOHNSON

It won't change my commitment. I understand what they did. I understand their frustration. They coul...
DOUGLAS JOHNSON

Unless the Supreme Court now reverses the extreme position that five justices took in 2000, partly b...
DOUGLAS JOHNSON

The rest of the economies in the region still have over-capacity at a time when global demand is fai...
DOUGLAS JOHNSON

Hong Kong is probably a fairly reasonable buying opportunity,
DOUGLAS JOHNSON

Anything that makes people reflect about the humanity of the unborn child, we think, is a good thing...
DOUGLAS JOHNSON

He has supported overturning Roe vs. Wade in the form of a
constitutional amendment to protect t...
DOUGLAS JOHNSON

I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to m...
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower...
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at - not copy it.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Playing Joanne in 'London to Brighton' was my first taste of film, and I loved every second ...
GEORGIA GROOME

I believe I would rather have Stieglitz like something - anything I had done - than anyone else I kn...
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together I suppose.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ...
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

It was all so far away - there was quiet and an untouched feel to the country and I could work as I ...
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

The days you work are the best days.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

One can not be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel Am...
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than...
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

We're often blinded by romance; we decide to not see things we don't want to see, and put up...
GEORGIA KING

Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a...
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

I wouldn't even have braces on my teeth. I think they are horrible and this idea that everyone s...
GEORGIA JAGGER

Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I ...
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Cultivate more joy by arranging your life so that more joy will be likely.
GEORGIA WITKIN

I cannot think that God would be content To view unmoved the toiling and the strain, The groanin...
GEORGIA HARKNESS

Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And afte...
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Marks on paper are free -- free speech -- press -- pictures all go together I suppose.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Oh, the blues ain't nothing but a good woman feeling bad.
GEORGIA WHITE

When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to...
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

I hate flowers -- I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous f...
GEORGIA HARKNESS

I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ...
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to ha...
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I ha...
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from ...
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Sun-bleached bones were most wonderful against the blue - that blue that will always be there as it ...
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

I know now that most people are so closely concerned with themselves that they are not aware of thei...
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

It's very hard when you do photocalls. You have to be on time, you have to be all cheesy smiles,...
GEORGIA SALPA

My worst habit is probably that I'm extremely messy. I'm a big scatter-brain - I'm alway...
GEORGIA SALPA

When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I wan...
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

I often lay on that bench looking up into the tree, past the trunk and up into the branches. It was ...
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

I do have bad hair days. If I fall asleep with it slightly damp, I wake up and it'll all be pile...
GEORGIA JAGGER

Anyone who doesn't feel the crosses simply doesn't get that country.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Nobody could believe that somebody would steal pocket change and break into the library to do so.
GEORGIA ARAUJO

We're happy to take monies to build this library in whatever form.
GEORGIA ARAUJO

We'll take donations of any amount.
GEORGIA ARAUJO

It provided something pretty tempting for someone. We feel very lucky that nothing else was bothered...
GEORGIA ARAUJO

There's a lot of things that you can do where you don't have to have a lot of money. Going t...
GEORGIA HOLT

My dad discouraged me and my older sister watching too much TV. I don't want to portray them as ...
GEORGIA KING

I hate flowers -- I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes ti...
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

When I'm in a bikini or at a photo shoot, I'm real confident. But, if I'm in a group of ...
GEORGIA SALPA

I like to do a face steam, so, heat up a flannel, press it onto your face and then press a cold one ...
GEORGIA JAGGER

My mother was 13 when I was born. My childhood was pretty frantic, to say the least. My mother left ...
GEORGIA HOLT

We can play, hide and seek if you want, you will hide and i will love you
GEORGIA KAKALOPOULOU

You dare quarrel with me Doerwyne?

She wrinkled her nose. "It's not quarreling to express...
GEORGIA FOX

I think Katie Price is a really good businesswoman. She has made so much money.
GEORGIA SALPA

I've already bungee jumped, so I am thinking about diving with sharks. I watched a little snippe...
GEORGIA KING

The Prince of Chintz wears well and resists stains.
GEORGIA DULLEA

Where I was born and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been ...
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

I know now that most people are so closely concerned with themselves that they are not aware of thei...
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

The Abstract World of Flowers,
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes ti...
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

I said to myself -- I'll paint what I see -- what the flower is to me but I'll paint it big and they...
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

The days you work are the best days
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

I had a dream about you. You were on a bike going 70 miles an hour, I could see you approaching my c...
GEORGIA SARATSIOTI

I think when we sit down with the president, he's going to have some things he wants, we're going to...
GEORGIA REPUBLICAN

I went to work in a woman's home in Los Angeles as a mother's helper. I worked there about t...
GEORGIA HOLT

There's a certain amount of pain and heartache that goes with being the mother of a star and tha...
GEORGIA HOLT

In my dream, the eagle was showing me how life for Native Americans used to be and some things that ...
GEORGIA PEREZ

I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apa...
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life -- and I've never let it keep me from doing a...
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

When we first opened, people kept asking us if we did summer camps. That's how we got started. Then ...
GEORGIA MORRISON

I don't think we would limit her. If the swelling goes down and the function is there, she would be ...
GEORGIA FISCHER

My first memory is of the brightness of light ... light all around. I was sitting among pillows on a...
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

We'll take a complete beginner that has never been on a horse as well as advance riders who are curr...
GEORGIA MORRISON

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no...
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a...
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

To create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me ... shapes and ideas so near to...
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Many times they'll come and they'll ride, but they don't realize all the chores that go into taking ...
GEORGIA MORRISON

My dad was in these pretty big films that were relevant to my age group. I remember him doing 'R...
GEORGIA KING

Even when my parents were together, they both had to travel and work, and it wasn't like they ha...
GEORGIA JAGGER

Reality TV rots people's brains.
GEORGIA JAGGER

I had a dream about you. We were actors in a horror movie and I was hunting you down with a knife. W...
GEORGIA SARATSIOTI

Skydiving is special because it's almost the closest to an out-of-body experience you can have. ...
GEORGIA KING

I want to be an entrepreneur too; I like the business side of things. When I was younger I wanted to...
GEORGIA JAGGER

When you're in a foreign country or on an island or something, you've got to be aware of your surrou...
GEORGIA CHILDS

There are often people standing outside near the entrances of buildings smoking. This affects others...
GEORGIA CHILDS

We are very excited for the opportunity to enhance the health and well-being of our students.
GEORGIA CHILDS

Voluntary national surveillance of blood poisoning (in England) caused by E. coli from 1994 to 2004 ...
GEORGIA DUCKWORTH

They are here for a variety of reasons -- from ground work to get everything ready for the ground-br...
GEORGIA DEPARTMENT

Local Ford dealerships have played a major role in the economic and civic vitality of Georgia commun...
GEORGIA DEPARTMENT

They really have to prove themselves. Then their involvement in treatment will be held to a high bar...
GEORGIA CUMMING

When you think about what they have to deal with, and the discussions they need to have in treatment...
GEORGIA CUMMING

If we were to treat everybody for the whole length of their sentence we would be facing a significan...
GEORGIA CUMMING

We look at does a person have a prior sexual offense? Does the offender have a prior non-sexual reco...
GEORGIA CUMMING

I'm not surprised that the community is upset about this. Sex offenses are very serious.
GEORGIA CUMMING

When people come to me upset and in need of advice the first thing I always suggest is to brew a nic...
GEORGIA BARRETT

The reason why that is significant is because if it were any farther back, the femur would be sittin...
GEORGIA FISCHER

I think we can definitely say we're looking at that this is the finals. It is a very important time....
GEORGIA FISCHER

So there's a glimmer of hope that if it settles down, she might be able to play because this tiny cr...
GEORGIA FISCHER

The entire population of Liberty Island is small enough to fit into one copper-skinned palm of the c...
GEORGIA DULLEA

It really isn't appropriate for me to comment on this application before any of the decision makers ...
GEORGIA HANSON

I want to welcome 600 Ritz-Carlton members to the historical society's membership rolls. The money w...
GEORGIA HANSON

That doesn't have to be reported according to the rules. We followed the rules.
GEORGIA HANSON

They would be in jail. There would be no ifs, ands or buts.
GEORGIA GROVES

I've got petitions signed, and I intend to pursue this to the bitter end. We've got a lot of good of...
GEORGIA GROVES

This is not a first time offense. This is just the time he's been caught.
GEORGIA GROVES

I can't tell you how much I hurt.
GEORGIA GAYNOR

I don't want it to happen to another mother. I don't care how low that child gets, that child is lov...
GEORGIA GAYNOR

That's the way he did things.
GEORGIA GAYNOR

He wanted South Park to be one of the jewels of Seattle.
GEORGIA KUMOR

Fortunately, our current economy will offer lots of hope for these people. Companies are expanding t...
GEORGIA SMITH

Dates of the big July weekend are printed on the back; however, that doesn't mean they need to come ...
GEORGIA SMITH

We would like to see them in every business in Aberdeen.
GEORGIA SMITH

Our goal is to encourage everyone to be part of the celebration as well as to give us a broader base...
GEORGIA SMITH

She really made history come alive for us and made the events real. You can really tell that she lov...
GEORGIA SMITH

I really think people will find that, at a personal level, there is a hole left in this Congress by ...
GEORGIA REPUBLICAN

The first time there is a crisis somewhere else in the world, Saddam is bound to break his word.
GEORGIA REPUBLICAN

The story broke down barriers that people had about health and diabetes. When talking to children an...
GEORGIA PEREZ

I knew his simple message would translate to children.
GEORGIA PEREZ

Eagles are very important to me and my culture.
GEORGIA PEREZ

He's very respectful of what we do.
GEORGIA MICHALEC

Then I realized I was just being an activist.
GEORGIA MICHALEC

Sometimes people will just stand with us for a while.
GEORGIA MICHALEC

You can fill them out interactively or print them out and mail them. We wanted to make it as easy as...
GEORGIA ZERN

This would be an excellent program for civic groups.
GEORGIA ZERN

It also helps people learn to appreciate the animals more if they're involved in something like this...
GEORGIA ZERN

Once they're done documenting the sighting, they turn the form over to us, and we keep a database.
GEORGIA ZERN

We did the first big training session last fall.
GEORGIA ZERN

Although everyone keeps talking about holiday depression, hospital admissions for depression actuall...
GEORGIA WITKIN

To try for a perfect holiday is really an exercise in mental cruelty because there really is no such...
GEORGIA WITKIN

The truth is that stress goes up because women add all their new roles to their old roles without cr...
GEORGIA WITKIN

We've been in the Hawaiian Islands for a long time now and we're very committed there and we would p...
GEORGIA TAYLOR

That's not right. It's not right for a county the size of Richland County not to have these services...
GEORGIA TAYLOR

Domestic violence and sexual assault go hand in hand.
GEORGIA TAYLOR

She really enjoyed herself and did very well.
GEORGIA TAYLOR

I work with the parents. I see (the school) as a ministry as well because I teach principles of God ...
GEORGIA TAYLOR

I hope you know CPR because you are going to take Jessie's breath away.
GEORGIA CATES

When you look back on this moment months from now, don't forget the one word I'm about to say to you...
GEORGIA CATES

I want to try everything I can; I want to push my boundaries and experiment with characters and genr...
GEORGIA GROOME

People that I have known that have been extremely creative, people in the business, they have always...
GEORGIA HOLT

When I do club appearances, it's girls who come up and get their photos taken with me, not just ...
GEORGIA SALPA

If I need to take a break from work, I'll just Google dogs that are up for adoption in L.A. I re...
GEORGIA KING

I'm like a middle-aged person; when my friends go on about modern bands, I don't know what t...
GEORGIA MAY JAGGER

I wouldn't even have braces on my teeth. I think they are horrible, and this idea that everyone ...
GEORGIA MAY JAGGER

My mum taught me a lot about fashion in terms of knowing what looks good on you and developing my ow...
GEORGIA MAY JAGGER

I love to shop vintage clothes; in London, I usually go to Relic and Alfie's Market. I usually b...
GEORGIA MAY JAGGER

I actually really love the Kate Moss Rimmel lipsticks. Sometimes I get afraid of different colours. ...
GEORGIA MAY JAGGER

Just Cavalli for Her is a flowery and sexy fragrance. I like its freshness and feminine scent.
GEORGIA MAY JAGGER

I eat three meals a day and three juices a day.
GEORGIA MAY JAGGER

Despite four years of our best efforts negotiating with Ford to save and perhaps expand the Hapevill...
GEORGIA GOVSONNY PERDUE

My dad was fine about me doing modelling at 16 because I always said school was important to me. I a...
GEORGIA MAY JAGGER

Roberto Cavalli is a great designer. The Just Cavalli brand is very sexy, young and cool. Each colle...
GEORGIA MAY JAGGER

Even when my parents were together, they both had to travel and work, and it wasn't like they ha...
GEORGIA MAY JAGGER

I think my gap adds character. A while ago, on the street, a guy yelled, 'You could stick a gold...
GEORGIA MAY JAGGER

I preferred MTV as it used to be when it was about the music - I don't like it that now they jus...
GEORGIA MAY JAGGER

Modulation and processing of the range of sensory experiences allows for social engagement and attac...
GEORGIA A. DEGANGI

I'm interested in every aspect of fashion. I think it's in my bones. When I was younger I us...
GEORGIA MAY JAGGER

Nobody could believe that somebody would steal pocket change and break into the library to do so.
GEORGIA DE ARAUJO

We're happy to take monies to build this library in whatever form.
GEORGIA DE ARAUJO

We'll take donations of any amount.
GEORGIA DE ARAUJO

It provided something pretty tempting for someone. We feel very lucky that nothing else was bothered...
GEORGIA DE ARAUJO

We are proud that Dr. King's legacy is part of Georgia's legacy and he's given us a special obligati...
GEORGIA GOVSONNY PERDUE

All of our children deserve our protection. Especially the most neediest, our unborn children.
GEORGIA GOVSONNY PERDUE

My dad has more sparkly stuff than most men.
GEORGIA MAY JAGGER

Tradition is but a meteor, which, if it once falls, cannot be rekindled. Memory, once interrupted, i...
JOHNSON

Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely ne...
JOHNSON

He that never thinks can never be wise.
JOHNSON

The true sound and strong mind is the one that can embrace equally great and small things.
JOHNSON

Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon t...
JOHNSON

To hear complaints is tiresome to the miserable and the happy.
JOHNSON

When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they are regarded by othe...
JOHNSON

When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complai...
JOHNSON

Laws teach us to know when we commit injury and when we suffer it.
JOHNSON

Language is the pedigree of nations.
JOHNSON

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that...
JOHNSON

There is nothing that exasperates people more than a display of superior ability or brilliance in co...
JOHNSON

If what happens does not make us richer, we must welcome it if it makes us wiser.
JOHNSON

No one will persist long in helping someone who will not help themselves.
JOHNSON

Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, I did not give it to the man, but...
JOHNSON

To have gold is to be in fear, and to want it to be sorrow.
JOHNSON

Try and forget our cares and sickness, and contribute, as we can to the happiness of each other.
JOHNSON

He that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them...
JOHNSON

Language is the dress of thought.
JOHNSON

Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom.
JOHNSON

I battered the cordons around me/ And cradled my wings on the breeze,/ Then soared to the uttermost reaches/ With rapture, with power, with ease!

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