Paul Laurence Dunbar quote: "I know why the caged bird sings, ah me, when his wing is bruised and his bosom sore; when he beats his bars and he would be free, it is not a carol of joy or glee, but a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core."

Y'ought to hyeah dat gal a-warblin' Robins, la'ks an' all dem things Heish de mouffs an' hides...
PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR

All play and no work makes Jack a mere toy.
PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR

The Lord had a job for me, but I had so much to do, I said, "You get somebody else--or wait till I...
PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR

With our short sight we affect to take a comprehensive view of eternity. Our horizon is the universe...
PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR

[In Is Higher Education for the Negro Hopeless? Dunbar responds to an essay in which Charles Dudley ...
PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR

I simply came to the conclusion that I could write [dialect poetry] as well, if not better, than any...
PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR

I didn't start as a dialect poet, ... talked again and again about poetry.
PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR

With it all, I cannot help being overwhelmed by self-doubts. I hope there is something worthy in my ...
PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR

But a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core.
PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR

When you play a team like St. X, you have to play your best, ... St. X is just a great team, so if w...
PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR

People are taking it for granted that [the Negro] ought not to work with his head. And it is so easy...
PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR

A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in. A minute to smile and an hour to weep in. A pint of joy t...
PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR

روح روز تابستانی و
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تابستان اما س�...
PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR

Training a puppy is like raising a child. Every single interaction is a training opportunity.
IAN DUNBAR

All love is lost but upon God alone.
WILLIAM DUNBAR

People - and dogs - are dying to be trained.
IAN DUNBAR

You can instill fear in your kids and get them to mind, but they won't function better in the wo...
IAN DUNBAR

You don't train a dog in a training hall, jerking his neck or even giving him food treats. You t...
IAN DUNBAR

With every animal, you have to build its confidence around people because people do some crazy and s...
IAN DUNBAR

When I'm training a dog, I develop a relationship with that dog. He's my buddy, and I want t...
IAN DUNBAR

All training is negotiation, whether you're training dogs or spouses.
IAN DUNBAR

Training a dog, to me, is on a par with learning to dance with my wife or teaching my son to ski. Th...
IAN DUNBAR

Learning from wolves to interact with pet dogs makes about as much sense as, 'I want to improve ...
IAN DUNBAR

I grew up on a farm and my grandfather quit school when he was 12, but when it came to common sense ...
IAN DUNBAR

To God be humble, to thy friend be kind, and with thy neighbors gladly lend and borrow; His chance t...
WILLIAM DUNBAR

Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it wi...
WILLIAM DUNBAR

London, thou art the flower of cities all!
WILLIAM DUNBAR

He shook his head in exasperation. “Are you sure you’re not a Succubus? You seem really obsessed...
DEBRA DUNBAR

I used to go to a lot of Harvard games and UNH is always one of the most competitive teams.
BRITANI DUNBAR

I want to go to Harvard and try out for the hockey team.
BRITANI DUNBAR

My Dad used to draw boats all the time and I've found his drawings in my grandparents' attic. I foun...
BRITANI DUNBAR

I want to go to the Olympics and play hockey.
BRITANI DUNBAR

I have been drawing since I was very little and I have been playing hockey for five years.
BRITANI DUNBAR

We want to keep NASA front and center and capture the imagination of the viewer. And the Web is a go...
BRIAN DUNBAR

NASA does a great job of communicating with people who are already predisposed to support portions o...
BRIAN DUNBAR

Unfortunately, we should have explicitly said that, by all means, people should continue to answer e...
BRIAN DUNBAR

We'll be happy to talk to any others.
BRIAN DUNBAR

It's important, with climate change, landfills, hazardous waste, the health of humans and other spec...
BRIAN DUNBAR

In previous analyses, researchers did not account for differences in species abundance. As a result,...
JOHN DUNBAR

I glanced over and saw Wyatt glaring at me. Journey’s “Lovin’ Touchin’, Squeezin’” was p...
DEBRA DUNBAR

I'm just happy he's got it back. It just kind of gives you a good, warm feeling,
JOHN DUNBAR

It does not appear to be random, these two people did know each other and we're trying to come up wi...
AARON DUNBAR

We suspect that somebody out there in the community is going to recognize the description and be abl...
AARON DUNBAR

Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional, they are sceptical and mystical, they are romantic and iron...
WILLIAM DUNBAR

We do everything we can to keep it pristine.
ROBERT DUNBAR

A lawyer who does not know men is handicapped.
WILLIAM DUNBAR

It's like somebody gives you a jigsaw puzzle, but it's thousands of years old and you're not given a...
JAMES DUNBAR

While each one of these descriptors individually isn't terribly unique, the combination of all these...
AARON DUNBAR

Something deep in the human psyche has always seemed to yearn for ever more enhanced levels of savag...
ROBERT DUNBAR

With improved analytical methods, we show that the abundance distribution and total diversity of soi...
JOHN DUNBAR

The preservation was phenomenal,
JAMES DUNBAR

What in the world were people doing at one point in time?
JAMES DUNBAR

I can't say why he did it (relocated the stream). He shouldn't have done it. We ordered steps to com...
ROBERT DUNBAR

It's become a forensic science,
JAMES DUNBAR

The Disney Company wanted to do a proper 75th-birthday celebration of Mickey. What better way than t...
LEILA DUNBAR

So Tumpty tried hiding upside down, behind a pot plant, under a large cardboard box, with his eyes t...
POLLY DUNBAR

That's what holds me up. I got faith.
DOROTHY DUNBAR

This house is a house of prayer,
DOROTHY DUNBAR

It's outrageous, you have to cook constantly, ... You cook like you're cooking for an army. We make ...
DOROTHY DUNBAR

Everyone here is related to me. I always reach out to people. My brother called and I told him, 'Com...
DOROTHY DUNBAR

They're all my family,
DOROTHY DUNBAR

I that in heill was and gladnèss
Am trublit now with great sickness
And feblit with infir...
WILLIAM DUNBAR

The original Gothic horror tales focused on personalities deformed through loneliness. Ghouls, vampi...
ROBERT DUNBAR

Do I look like I'm compelled to do anything? Do I seriously look like anyone could compel me to even...
DEBRA DUNBAR

Our pleasance here is all vain glory, This false world is but transitory.
WILLIAM DUNBAR

I also played with Jimi Hendrix. Jimi would come down and sit in with Retaliation and we would have ...
AYNSLEY DUNBAR

Nowadays I get complaints about long drum solos, but in those days they wanted me to keep on going s...
AYNSLEY DUNBAR

So I'm a Gator 'Nole,
JAMES DUNBAR

Even in the wood, there was a right road and a wrong one. All the most terrifying fairy tales inevit...
ROBERT DUNBAR

We are delighted to have the opportunity to offer property from the estate of Katharine Hepburn. Her...
LEILA DUNBAR

We have to be really, really careful about what goes up on the site.
LEILA DUNBAR

From this regional partnership, we will again provide athletes the environment to be the best.
PETER DUNBAR

The pale stars were sliding into their places. The whispering of the leaves was almost hushed. All a...
OLIVIA HOWARD DUNBAR

How then can the US society come to terms with its past? How can it acknowledge responsibility? The ...
ROXANNE DUNBAR-ORTIZ

There are two main jobs in acting - the first one is to be a good actor, and the second one is to co...
LAURENCE FOX

The Second Amendment does protect the right to people to possess weapons for self-defense in the hom...
LAURENCE TRIBE

As a child growing up in San Francisco in the 1950s, I sometimes met insults when I ventured outside...
LAURENCE YEP

There are a lot of things that fit on a bumper sticker in terms of either liberty or equality or pro...
LAURENCE TRIBE

The world does not pay for what a person knows, but it pays for what a person does with what he know...
LAURENCE LEE

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
LAURENCE STERNE

There is nothing so awkward as courting a woman whilst she is making sausages.
LAURENCE STERNE

When men grow virtuous in their old age they are merely making a sacrifice to God of the devil's le...
LAURENCE STERNE

Let to-morrow take care of to-morrow, Leave things of the future to fate; What's the use to an...
LAURENCE STERNE

These things by reason of our friendship I have not hesitated glo to communicate.
LAURENCE STERNE

It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear, not to skin his sheep.
LAURENCE STERNE

He found a city of bricks, he left one of marble.
LAURENCE STERNE

The most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their title...
LAURENCE STERNE

Most of the fiction on the California Gold Rush makes it sound like one grand, boyish adventure. How...
LAURENCE YEP

They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old; Age shall not weary them, nor the years con...
LAURENCE BINYON

Love is active, not passive. It is our love for one another, for Mother Earth, for our fellow creatu...
LAURENCE OVERMIRE

Look into the world
LAURENCE STERNE

Two more years were to go by before I knew anything about William Blake. Many years later, when his ...
LAURENCE HOUSMAN

The world does not pay for what a person knows. But it pays for what a person does with what he know...
LAURENCE LEE

Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners
LAURENCE STERNE

I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally boun...
LAURENCE STERNE

Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.
LAURENCE STERNE

We lose the right of complaining sometimes, by denying something, but this often triples its force.
LAURENCE STERNE

For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.
LAURENCE STERNE

'Tis no extravagant arithmetic to say, that for every ten jokes, thou hast got an hundred enemies; a...
LAURENCE STERNE

I am persuaded that every time a man smiles, but much more so when he laughs, it adds something to t...
LAURENCE STERNE

I've played a lot of bad guys, 'cause that was the only work I could get. People saw my face and wen...
LAURENCE FISHBURNE

First, whenever a man talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not his reason, but h...
LAURENCE STERNE

When ever a person talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not their reason, but th...
LAURENCE STERNE

Positiveness is an absurd foible. If you are in the right, it lessens your triumph; if in the wrong,...
LAURENCE STERNE

There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse.
LAURENCE STERNE

People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they nev...
LAURENCE STERNE

If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
PETER LAURENCE

Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature...
LAURENCE STERNE

Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.
LAURENCE STERNE

So long as a man rides his Hobby-Horse peaceably and quietly along the King's highway, and neither c...
LAURENCE STERNE

A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests hi...
LAURENCE STERNE

Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not ...
LAURENCE STERNE

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.
LAURENCE STERNE

Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to...
LAURENCE STERNE

The difference between a helping hand and an outstretched palm is a twist of the wrist.
LAURENCE LEAMER

If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never...
LAURENCE HOUSMAN

'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause -- and of obstinacy in a bad one.
LAURENCE STERNE

Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of ...
LAURENCE STERNE

The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it.
LAURENCE STERNE

What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within the span of his little life by him who inter...
LAURENCE STERNE

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
LAURENCE STERNE

The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to...
LAURENCE OLIVIER

In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.
LAURENCE STERNE

I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward...
LAURENCE OLIVIER

Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.
LAURENCE STERNE

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.
LAURENCE STERNE

But this is neither here nor there why do I mention it? Ask my pen, it governs me, I govern not it.
LAURENCE STERNE

One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate h...
LAURENCE STERNE

Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur...
LAURENCE STERNE

So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly,...
LAURENCE STERNE

Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.
LAURENCE STERNE

An actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.
LAURENCE STERNE

I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.
LAURENCE STERNE

Titles of honor are like the impressions on coins, which add no value to gold or silver, but only re...
LAURENCE STERNE

An English man does not travel to see English men.
LAURENCE STERNE

I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top o...
LAURENCE STERNE

People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding a treasure which...
LAURENCE STERNE

Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world, - though the cant of hypocrites may be the ...
LAURENCE STERNE

God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.
LAURENCE STERNE

Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.
LAURENCE STERNE

Suicide is possible, but not probable; hanging, I trust, is even more unlikely; for I hope that, by ...
LAURENCE HOUSMAN

There have been no sects in the Christian world, however absurd, which have not endeavoured to suppo...
LAURENCE STERNE

I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shak...
LAURENCE OLIVIER

We have all, at one time or another, been performers, and many of us still are - politicians, playbo...
LAURENCE OLIVIER

But what is the way forward? I know what it isn't. It's not, as we once believed, plenty to eat and ...
LAURENCE GONZALES

Wisdom is finding the path that is best for all - considering the options, the positives and the neg...
LAURENCE OVERMIRE

I often think that could we creep behind the actor's eyes, we would find an attic of forgotten t...
LAURENCE OLIVIER

Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not ...
LAURENCE STERNE

We ape, we mimic, we mock. We act.
LAURENCE OLIVIER

'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause, and of obstinacy in a bad one.
LAURENCE STERNE

The world does not pay for what a person knows, but it pays for what a person does with what he kno...
LAURENCE LEE

What does brace mean, anyway? Brace. Such an odd word. It comes from the Latin brachium, meaning arm...
LAURENCE GONZALES

In 1966, I attended Marquette University and graduated from the University of California at Santa Cr...
LAURENCE YEP

I had never thought of myself as a dramatist, and, for really good technical results, the thought ca...
LAURENCE HOUSMAN

I'd like people to remember me for a diligent expert workman. I think a poet is a workman. I thi...
LAURENCE OLIVIER

When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage - that it puts him into an excellent f...
LAURENCE STERNE

A dwarf who brings a standard along with him to measure his own size, take my word, is a dwarf in mo...
LAURENCE STERNE

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years...
LAURENCE BINYON

I was born in San Francisco's Chinatown in 1948 but grew up in a black neighborhood. During elem...
LAURENCE YEP

If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.
LAURENCE PETER

"He shall not die, by God," cried by uncle Toby. The Accusing Spirit which flew up to heaven's cha...
LAURENCE STERNE

Our armies swore terrible in Flanders.
LAURENCE STERNE

It was a toast, not a roast.
LAURENCE MEYER

I've always lived above my income. When I was earning $100 a week, I spent $200... always borrowing ...
LAURENCE HARVEY

I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to...
LAURENCE STERNE

There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse
LAURENCE STERNE

I think of myself as being a relatively intelligent man who is open to a lot of different things and...
LAURENCE FISHBURNE

I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become...
LAURENCE HOUSMAN

Mine were informal mentors. They were all in my working life.
LAURENCE FISHBURNE

But it has also enabled me to find my feet as a lecturer and a reader of my own plays to audiences w...
LAURENCE HOUSMAN

Over the course of the millennia, all these multitudes of ancestors, generation upon generation, hav...
LAURENCE OVERMIRE

There is a temptation to take advantage. Just like any other aspect of society, there are the good (...
LAURENCE GODFREY

So, if this were indeed my Final Hour, these would be my words to you. I would not claim to pass on ...
MARGARET LAURENCE

When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a straight...
LAURENCE OLIVIER

Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.
LAURENCE OLIVIER

I don't believe for a minute that the proof of God's existence is achieved. My faith prohibits me fr...
LAURENCE COSSé

I should have no objection to this method, but that I think it must smell too strong of the lamp.
LAURENCE STERNE

It's something he learned as a bodybuilder. You get up on stage and twist and turn your body to alwa...
LAURENCE LEAMER

Does American Media have the right to have that impact in the election? ... The big question with Gi...
LAURENCE LEAMER

the integrity of the electoral process.
LAURENCE LEAMER

I don't know how many paintings there are-probably thousands. They're everywhere, and it's almost im...
LAURENCE NEUFELD

The mere dates of my existence do not interest me, except in one connection. When the Great War star...
LAURENCE HOUSMAN

Well, where am I really? I'm 200 feet off the ground in a manmade maze.
LAURENCE GONZALES

A mother can read all the child-rearing books and can subscribe to any theory of parenting, but what...
LAURENCE SHAMES

There is a guilty pleasure in being rude and knowing that it's acting rather than you. But you g...
LAURENCE FOX

For every ten jokes, thou hast got a hundred enemies
LAURENCE STERNE

Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplacea...
MARGARET LAURENCE

Feast of John, Apostle & Evangelist Father eternal, ruler of creation, Spirit of life, which mo...
LAURENCE HOUSMAN

Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for con...
LAURENCE STERNE

I shall go the way of the open sea, To the lands I knew before you came, And the cool ocean breezes ...
LAURENCE HOPE

I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top o...
LAURENCE STERNE

People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding a treasure which...
LAURENCE STERNE

Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they're really not. They're companions - the...
LAURENCE SHAMES

Strange, weird things that no man may say, things Humanity hides away; secretly done, catch the ligh...
LAURENCE HOPE

Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.
LAURENCE HOPE

Or, pale dispensers of my Joys and Pains, holding the doors of Heaven and of Hell.
LAURENCE HOPE

I cannot forget that, just as my life was touching its fullest flower, love came and destroyed it al...
LAURENCE HOPE

Pale hands I loved beside the Shalimar, / Where are you now? Who lies beneath your spell?
LAURENCE HOPE

Why is love such a sorrowful thing, this I never could understand; passion and pain are linked toget...
LAURENCE HOPE

I know why the caged bird sings, ah me, when his wing is bruised and his bosom sore; when he beats his bars and he would be free, it is not a carol of joy or glee, but a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core.

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Paul Laurence Dunbar

I know why the caged bird sings, ah me, when his wing is bruised and his bosom sore; when he beats his bars and he would be free, it is not a carol of joy or glee, but a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core.

Paul Laurence Dunbar

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