Brooks Quotes

179 quotes by 152 authors

Instead of a river, God often gives us a brook, which may be running today and dried up tomorrow. Why? To teach us not to… — Arthur W. Pink
Spring is beautiful everywhere, but it is more than beautiful in Lebanon. Spring is the spirit of an unknown God speeding through the world, which,… — Khalil Gibran
A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Holy Night We sate among the stalls at Bethlehem; The dumb kine from their fodder turning them, Softened their horned faces To almost human… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Thine eyes are springs in whose serene And silent waters heaven is seen. Their lashes are the herbs that look On their young figures in… — William C. Bryant
I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Writing recently in the New York Times, David Brooks noted correctly if belatedly that conservatives disdain for liberal intellectuals had slipped into disdain for the… — Mark Lilla
Who are the farmer's servants? ... Geology and Chemistry, the quarry of the air, the water of the brook, the lightning of the cloud, the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
He murmurs near the running brooks A music sweeter than their own. — William Wordsworth
One of the perks of being an actor is to get to meet athletes that you respect. Especially who played before my time. Brooks Robinson… — Josh Charles
Oh for a seat in some poetic nook, Just hid with trees and sparkling with a brook! — Leigh Hunt
Wall Street bankers supposedly back the Yankees; Smith College girls approve of them. God, Brooks Brothers, and United States Steel are believed to be solidly… — Gay Talese
I recently watched Peter Brook's Lord of the Flies, and it wasn't a favorite film. Then I saw the one that was made in 1990,… — Brendan Fraser
GLOUCESTER: Yet so much is my poverty of spirit, So mighty and so many my defects, As I had rather hide me from my greatness,… — William Shakespeare
Candleford Green was but a small village and there were fields and meadows and woods all around it. As soon as Laura crossed the doorstep,… — Flora Thompson
Not curiosity, not vanity, not the consideration of expediency, not duty and conscientiousness, but an unquenchable, unhappy thirst that brooks no compromise leads us to… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
What strength belongs to every plant and animal in nature. The tree or the brook has no duplicity, no pretentiousness, no show. It is, with… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I sailed on the North River last night with my flute, and my music was a tinkling stream which meandered with the river, and fell… — Henry David Thoreau
There are natures that go to the streams of life in great cities as the hart goes to the water brooks. — Philip Gilbert Hamerton
On the waves of the brook she dances by, The light, the lovely dragon-fly; She dances here, she dances there, The shimmering, glimmering flutterer fair.… — Heinrich Heine

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