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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Dombey sat in the corner of the darkened room in the great arm-chair by the bedside, and Son lay tucked up warm in a little basket bedstead, carefully disposed on a low settee immediately in front of the fire and close to it, as if his constitution were analogous to that of a muffin, and it was essential to toast him brown while he was very new.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Humorous, Son

  Charles Dickens (2016). “Dombey and Son”, p.5, Xist Publishing

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• I worship makeup. The basics are always: Stila shadows, LeClerc powder for my crazy shiny skin, Bobbie brown liner pot, Chanel mascara, and Koh Gen Do for foundation, Nars for colors and sparkles.

  Mindy Kaling

  Crazy, Makeup, Color

  "The Office's Mindy Kaling Dishes On Fashion, Beauty, And Hollywood!". Interview with Kate Mulling, www.refinery29.com. October 13, 2011.

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• Your wits can't thicken in that soft moist air, on those white springy roads, in those misty rushes and brown bogs, on those hillsides of granite rocks and magenta heather. You've no such colours in the sky, no such lure in the distances, no such sadness in the evenings. Oh the dreaming! the dreaming! the torturing, heart-scalding, never satisfying dreaming, dreaming, dreaming, dreaming!

  George Bernard Shaw

  Dream, Distance, Sadness

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit”, p.1235, e-artnow

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• Boughs have their fruit and blossom
  At all times of the year;
  Rivers are running over
  With red beer and brown beer.

  William Butler Yeats

  Running, Beer, Years

  William Butler Yeats (1931). “Later Poems”, p.36, Library of Alexandria

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• In autumn, when the leaves are brown,
  Take pen and ink, and write it down.

  Lewis Carroll

  Writing, Autumn, Poetry

  Lewis Carroll (2016). “Through the Looking-Glass”, p.51, Xist Publishing

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• The old brown hen and the old blue sky,
  Between the two we live and die
  The broken cartwheel on the hill.

  Wallace Stevens

  Life, Country, Blue

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p.359, Vintage

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• Autumn is the American season. In Europe the leaves turn yellow or brown, and fall. Here they take fire on the trees and hang there flaming. We think this frost-fire is a portent somehow: a promise that the continent has given us. Life, too, we think, is capable of taking fire in this country; of creating beauty never seen.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Country, Fall, Autumn

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• My top three were Jim Brown, Wilt Chamberlain and Bo Jackson.

  Dick Schaap

  Three, Chamberlain

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• I'M SYMPATHETIC, because I wasn't there so I don't know exactly what happened. Maybe Darren Wilson acted within his rights and duty as an officer of the law and killed Michael Brown in self defense like any of us would in the circumstance. Now he has to fear the backlash against himself and his loved ones when he was only doing his job. What a horrible thing to endure. OR maybe he provoked Michael and ignited the series of events that led to him eventually murdering the young man to prove a point.

  Benjamin Watson

  Jobs, Men, Self

  Benjamin Watson (2015). “Under Our Skin: Getting Real about Race. Getting Free from the Fears and Frustrations that Divide Us.”, p.15, NavPress

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