Brooks Quotes
179 quotes by 153 authors
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You've got to remember, Vermont is a lot of beautiful mountains with valleys and small brooks that run into bigger rivers.
— Peter Shumlin
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I don't see why you reporters keep confusing Brooks (Robinson) and me. Can't you see that we wear different numbers.
— Frank Robinson
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Brooks Robinson belongs in a higher league.
— Pete Rose
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The brook would lose its song if we removed the rocks.
— Wallace Stegner
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It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
— George Eliot
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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
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Active minds that think and study, like swift brooks are seldom muddy.
— Arthur Guiterman
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Learn this from water: loud splashes the brook but the oceans depth are calm.
— Gautama Buddha
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Nobody is expecting us to do anything. We can't let that perception become our reality, because with the ability on this team, if everybody can…
— Vinny Testaverde
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It would have been a great story if Brooks had went out there and scored 21 points, ... That would have been great theater. But…
— Herman Edwards
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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
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I hope the car they (Sport Magazine who awarded it to the World Series MVP) give him (Brooks Robinson) has an extra large glove box.
— Sparky Anderson
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I'm beginning to see Brooks [Robinson] in my sleep. If I dropped a paper plate, he'd pick it up on one hop and throw me…
— Sparky Anderson
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Here's a simple way to abolish golf's elitist and exclusionary image and make it a truly all-American sport: ditch that fifties-Republican-martini-drinker's green Brooks Brothers-style sport…
— Bruce McCall
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Jim Crow is alive and it's dressed in a Brooks Brothers suit, my friend, instead of a white robe.
— Myrlie Evers-Williams
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Stairway to Wisdomâ€) David Brooks detailed the needed ingredients to gaining a deep understanding of a social problem, beginning with the data and moving on…
— David Brooks
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Make no mistake, this music is for everyone. Jazz is not an exclusive, elite club. Go ahead, listen to your Snoop Doggy Dog, Pearl Jam,…
— Christian McBride
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Like billowing clouds, Like the incessant gurgle of the brook The longing of the spirit can never be stilled.
— Hildegard of Bingen
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I tend to cut David Brooks more slack than most people I know do, and I do it for one main reason. He can write.…
— Michael Tomasky
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Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks and rivers wide Towers and battlements it sees Bosom'd high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies,…
— John Milton
Who Wrote These Brooks Quotes
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