Brown Quotes

• I named my new son James Joseph Brown II. I think he's going to be a lot better than I was.

  James Brown

  Son, Thinking

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• Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance and none can say why some fields will blossom while others lay brown beneath the August sun.

  Kent Nerburn

  Senior, Children, August

  Kent Nerburn (1999). “Letters to My Son: A Father's Wisdom on Manhood, Women, Life and Love”, p.189, New World Library

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• God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.

  Anne Sexton

  Humorous, Beer, Voice

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.68, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Beautiful, Death

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.205, Wordsworth Editions

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• I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood.

  John Mason Brown

  Blood, Land, Civil War

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• The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods and meadows brown and sear.

  William C. Bryant

  Fall, Sadness, Autumn

  William Cullen Bryant, “The Death Of The Flowers”

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• President Obama has created at least three jobs that I know of - Bob McDonnell, Chris Christie, and Scott Brown.

  Newt Gingrich

  Jobs, Usa, President

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• Mild brown eyes beckon me to the past, but memory provides no clue.

  Mason Cooley

  Memories, Eye, Past

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• When the leaves turn brown, I'll be wearing the batting crown

  Dave Parker

  Crowns, Turns, Batting

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• Anything that is white is sweet.
  Anything that is brown is meat.
  Anything that is grey, don't eat.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Sweet, Food, White

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• Even the sky was grey. Grey and grey and greyer. The whole world grey, everywhere you look, everything grey except the eyes of the bride. The eyes of the bride were brown. Big and brown and full of fear.

  George R. R. Martin

  Eye, Sky, Looks

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.3555, Bantam

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• If envy is red and doubt is black then happiness is brown. I looked from the little brown stone to the tiny brown freckle to her huge brown eyes.

  Annabel Pitcher

  Eye, Envy, Black

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• How happy is the little stone That rambles in the road alone, And doesn't care about careers, And exigencies never fears; Whose coat of elemental brown A passing universe put on; And independent as the sun, Associates or glows alone, Fulfilling absolute decree In casual simplicity.

  Emily Dickinson

  Independent, Careers, Simplicity

  Emily Dickinson (2016). “The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.169, First Avenue Editions

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• Michael Brown and Eric Garner died because they got into a confrontation that could have been easily avoided. That's what made their deaths so tragic.

  Mike Rowe

  Eric, Made, Tragic

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• George had turned at the sound of her arrival. For a moment he contemplated her, as one who had fallen out of heaven. He saw radiant joy in her face, he saw the flowers beat against her dress in blue waves. The bushes above them closed. He stepped quickly forward and kissed her. Before she could speak, almost before she could feel, a voice called 'Lucy! Lucy! Lucy!' The silence of life had been broken by Miss Bartlett, who stood brown against the view.

  E. M. Forster

  Flower, Blue, Views

  E. M. Forster (2016). “A Room With A View: England Literature”, p.60, 谷月社

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• I don't know what happened. One minute, I was dreamin' about a fat piece of George Clooney and a hot date with some brown sugar pound cake, and the next thing I knew, the house was coming down on us.

  Kami Garcia

  Cake, House, Pieces

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• I wanted everything. What could you not want when you are brown and Indian-looking in a society in which the white aesthetic is praised as acceptable?

  Ana Castillo

  White, Want, Aesthetic

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• I wanted so badly to be straight like my friends. But I couldn't change it any more than I could change having brown eyes. And I knew I would never fit into what kids thought was normal.

  Cat Cora

  Kids, Eye, Normal

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• I want to see somebody go to jail over the financial crisis and not just black, brown and poor whites over humbles and minor drug beefs.

  Don Cheadle

  Jail, Drug, Black

  "Don Cheadle Says President Obama Should Have Been More ‘Gangster,’ Clarifies Comments". www.huffingtonpost.com. December 30, 2011.

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• Scott Brown may be the last Republican to win a statewide fight in Massachusetts for a very long time. He caught the machine flat-footed in January 2010 when he out-hustled Martha Coakley and stole the Senate seat Ted Kennedy held all those years. And since then, the Democrats haven't lost a single statewide fight.

  Howie Carr

  Fighting, Winning, Years

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• Gentlemen never wear brown in London.

  George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston

  Gentleman, London

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• Billions of taxpayers' money has been wasted in bad deals. The London Underground modernisation, personally negotiated by one of Gordon Brown's team, was a disaster, as the National Audit Office has confirmed.

  Vince Cable

  Team, Office, London

  Vincent Cable's speech to the Lib Dem conference, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2005.

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• I fear that the rising personal bankruptcies and repossessions are the first signs of bigger problems to come and personal debt - Gordon Brown's legacy to millions of Britain's families - will hang like a millstone around the neck of the British people for years to come.

  Vince Cable

  Years, People, Legacy

  Vincent Cable's speech to the Lib Dem conference, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2005.

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• Many of our problems are home-grown. Gordon Brown regularly advised the rest of the world to follow his British model of growth. But the model was flawed. It led to the highest level of household debt in relation to income in the world.

  Vince Cable

  Home, Growth, Income

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• When Gordon Brown becomes prime minister, the balance sheet that reflects his economic stewardship could look very sickly indeed. He could become Labour's biggest liability, not its most marketable asset.

  Vince Cable

  Balance, Looks, Stewardship

  "Cable calls for cuts" by Matthew Tempest, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2005.

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