Brook Quotes

87 quotes by 72 authors

I wandered by the brook-side, I wandered by the mill; I could not hear the brook flow, The noisy wheel was still. — Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton
Fertile plains, every foot of them tilled, are of the first necessity; but great natural playgrounds of mountain, forest, cliff-walled lake, and brawling brook are… — Theodore Roosevelt
In a dream I saw Jesus and My God Pan sitting together in the heart of the forest. They laughed at each other's speech, with… — Khalil Gibran
A woman growing up under American ideas of liberty in government and religion, having never blushed behind a Turkish mask, nor pressed her feet in… — Susan B. Anthony
The blue and bright-eyed floweret of the brook, Hope's gentle gem, the sweet Forget-me-not. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters. — Alexander the Great
Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have… — Oliver Wendell Holmes
A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed to brook compulsion, or submit to the dictates of… — Joseph Lancaster
Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of… — Cormac McCarthy
Then Nuvoletta reflected for the last time in her little long life and she made up all her myriads of drifting minds in one. She… — James Joyce
Girl lithe and tawny, the sun that forms the fruits, that plumps the grains, that curls seaweeds filled your body with joy, and your luminous… — Pablo Neruda
I closed my eyes, put my right hand on top of the book, and passed it lightly across the cover. It was cool and smooth… — Katherine Hannigan
But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook that sings its… — Khalil Gibran
I am no more lonely than a single mullein or dandelion in a pasture, or a bean leaf, or sorrel, or a horse-fly, or a… — Henry David Thoreau
Our life runs down in sending up the clock. The brook runs down in sending up our life. The sun runs down in sending up… — Robert Frost
Lady, lady, never start Conversation toward your heart; Keep your pretty words serene; Never murmur what you mean. Show yourself, by word and look, Swift… — Dorothy Parker
Yeah. When you want what's real and you try to find that in high school, you might as well be looking for a mossy rock… — Deb Caletti
I've sucked way too much cement for this year. Bad juju rising off them city sidewalks. I need to babble with a brook or two,… — Tom Robbins
A child her wayward pencil drew On margins of her book; Garlands of flower, dancing elves, Bud, butterfly, and brook, Lessons undone, and plum forgot,… — Louisa May Alcott
She stood before him and surrendered herself to him and sky, forest, and brook all came toward him in new and resplendent colors, belonged to… — Hermann Hesse

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