Brook Quotes

87 quotes by 72 authors

We are a water-drinking people, and we are allowing every brook to be defiled. — George Bird Grinnell
Faith is knowing there is an ocean because you have seen a brook. — William Arthur Ward
These are the forgeries of jealousy; And never, since the middle summer's spring, Met we on hill, in dale, forest, or mead, By paved fountain… — William Shakespeare
Wind, weather, power, load - gradually these elements stop churning in my mind. It's less a decision of logic than a feeling, the kind of… — Charles Lindbergh
Be inwardly ever newly joyous, like the ever-fresh laughing waters of a gurgling brook. — Paramahansa Yogananda
The genius of the people will ill brook the inquisitive and preemptory spirit of excise laws. — Alexander Hamilton
Many can brook the weather that love not the wind. — William Shakespeare
By the wood-shed is a brook. It goes singing on. Its joy-song does sing in my heart. — Opal Whiteley
The brook would lose its song if we removed the rocks. — Wallace Stegner
The longer I live here, the better satisfied I am in having pitched my earthly camp-fire, gypsylike, on the edge of a town, keeping it… — James Lane Allen
Learn this from water: loud splashes the brook but the oceans depth are calm. — Gautama Buddha
To go fishing is the chance to wash one's soul with pure air, with the rush of the brook, or with the shimmer of sun… — Herbert Hoover
Like billowing clouds, Like the incessant gurgle of the brook The longing of the spirit can never be stilled. — Hildegard of Bingen
As thou these ashes, little brook, wilt bear Into the Avon, Avon to the tide Of Severn, Severn to the narrow seas, Into main ocean… — William Wordsworth
When a man lives with God, his voice shall be as sweet as the murmur of the brook and rustle of the corn. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
God's ways seem dark, but, soon or late, They touch the shining hills of day; The evil cannot brook delay, The good can well afford… — John Greenleaf Whittier
When the enterprising burglar isn't burgling; When the cut-throat isn't occupied in crime; He loves to hear the little brook a-gurgling; And listen to the… — W. S. Gilbert
To babble is to make a feminine noise somewhat resembling the sound of a brook, but with less meaning. — Oliver Herford
It seems to me that whether it is recognized or not, there is a terrific frustration which increases in intensity and harmfulness as time goes… — Edith Schaeffer
A brook can be a friend in a special way. It talks to you with splashy gurgles. It cools your toes and lets you sit… — Joan Walsh Anglund

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