Brooks Quotes

179 quotes by 152 authors

From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take. — Thomas Gray
Roads are wet where'er one wendeth, And with rain the thistle bendeth, And the brook cries like a child! Not a rainbow shines to cheer… — Mary Howitt
The streams, rejoiced that winter's work is done, Talk of to-morrow's cowslips as they run. — Ebenezer Elliott
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
Every child should have mud pies, grasshoppers, water bugs, tadpoles, frogs, mud turtles, elderberries, wild strawberries, acorns, chestnuts, trees to climb. Brooks to wade, water… — Luther Burbank
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
I had been drawing my weekly comic strip, 'Life in Hell,' for about five years when I got a call from Jim Brooks, who was… — Matt Groening
I read a lot of literary theory when I was in graduate school, especially about novels, and the best book I ever read about endings… — Lev Grossman
Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas. — John Dryden
I'm actually reading 'World War Z' again! It's incredibly realistic and it's written as an oral history through interviews with different characters. Max Brooks wrote… — Nathan Fillion
Albert Brooks is definitely one of my biggest influences, for sure. — Jonah Hill
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
And I love Mel Brooks. My Dad loved his movies, too, they're awesome, the kind of thing that if you're in for ten minutes, you're… — Mike Myers
I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those… — Carl Sandburg
And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. — William Shakespeare

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