Helpless

Famous quotes containing the word helpless:

    But the bones didn’t try
    The door; they halted helpless on the landing,
    Waiting for things to happen in their favor.
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    ... the black woman can never forget—however lukewarm the party may to-day appear—that it was a Republican president who struck the manacles from her own wrists and gave the possibilities of manhood to her helpless little ones; and to her mind the Democratic Negro is a traitor and a time-server.
    Anna Julia Cooper (1859–1964)

    Thus, great with child to speak, and helpless in my throes,
    Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite:
    “Fool,” said my Muse to me, “look in thy heart and write!”
    Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586)