Dames Quote by Countee Cullen Download Open image “Dame Poverty gave me my name, And Pain godfathered me.” — Countee Cullen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dames Names Pain Poverty
Poverty took me from being the girl who was always the lead in the school play, to a woman who can't open her own… — Jack Monroe Copy Share Image
Poverty was my mother's midwife. She had her children in poverty. But she also found a road to bring us a sense of purpose,… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
I began to learn what poverty meant. It was burnt in my heart then that my father had to beg for work and there… — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
My anger pushed me. I hated poverty so much that I wanted to become rich. — Raj Kundra Copy Share Image
When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Poverty made me feel weak, as if I were coming down with an awful, debilitating, communicable disease - the disease of being without money.… — Faith Sullivan Copy Share Image
At last I came to college. I rushed for it with the outstretched arms of youth's aching hunger to give and take of life's deepest, and highest, and I came against the solid wall of the well-fed, well-dressed world - the frigid whitewashed wall of cleanliness. ... How I pinched, and scraped, and starved myself, to save enough to come… — Anzia Yezierska Copy Share
My entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty, in a way, was the first inspiration of my life, a commitment to do… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
Having grown up in dire poor, the thing that I hated the most in life was poverty. — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.' In order for a writer to… — Countee Cullen Copy Share Image
The night whose sable breast relieves the stark, White stars, is no less lovely being dark — Countee Cullen Copy Share Image
There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks. — Countee Cullen Copy Share Image
Ever at Thy glowing altar Must my heart grow sick and falter, Wishing He I served were black. — Countee Cullen Copy Share Image
“My poetry, I think, has become the way of my giving out what music is within me” — Countee Cullen Copy Share Image
All day long and all night through, One thing only must I do: Quench my pride and cool my blood, Lest I perish in… — Countee Cullen Copy Share Image
What is Africa to me: Copper sun or scarlet sea, Jungle star or jungle track, Strong bronzed men, or regal black Women from whose… — Countee Cullen Copy Share Image
Give but a grain of the heart's rich seed, Confine some under cover, And when love goes, bid him God-speed. And find another lover. — Countee Cullen Copy Share Image
Whatever lives is granted breath But by the grace and sufferance of Death. — Countee Cullen Copy Share Image
It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm by contact. If this be an ordered selfishness, then we should pause before we condemn any one for the vice of egoism, for there may be deeper root for its… — Bram Stoker Copy Share
You know, a dame with a rod is like a guy with a knitting needle. — Daniel Mainwaring Copy Share Image
I went to Notre Dame. I don't know if that has any relevance, but maybe we all had a little too much philosophy and… — William Mapother Copy Share Image
Growing up under the heavy hand of the School Sisters of Notre Dame, it was drummed into me that attending weekly mass was not… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
I find it easier to abstain than do a little bit of anything. I'm not a 'little bit' kind of dame. I want it… — Elaine Stritch Copy Share Image
A few years ago I met an old professor at the University of Notre Dame. Looking back on his long life of teaching, he… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
I haven't seen the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, the Louvre. I haven't seen anything. I don't really care. — Tyra Banks Copy Share Image
When you look at the dominance of Notre Dame, the love of Mary in almost every European country, psychologically, had to come from this recognition of the feminine mediating divine love. And for many people in history, it was clearly the preferred way because women raised most people, not men, so their first experience of unconditional love, of touch, of… — Richard Rohr Copy Share
Dame Edna is that rarest sighting in our time of the absolute comic, an inspired personification of caprice whose comedy answered the primal call… — John Lahr Copy Share Image
One who can find lemons sweet and grapes sour is ready for Dame Fortune. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
National Defense A strong USA defense brought down the Soviet Union. It was Ronald Reagan - first in a speech at Notre Dame University in May 1981, then his 'Evil Empire' speech of March 1983 - who most eloquently declared communism's imminent demise. Reagan was right. And even Soviet officials attribute Ronald Reagan's rhetoric and foreign policy to bringing down… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share
