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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• In very clear and available language, this book details how to recognize the inner critic and how to deal effectively with it. Byron Brown's presentation is useful for any individual who wishes to be free from the inner suffering and coercion of this ancient foe of our humanity, but it is specifically directed to those interested and engaged in the inner journey toward realization and enlightenment.

  A. H. Almaas

  Book, Journey, Humanity

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• We ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get in back, when brown can stick around... when yellow will be mellow... when the red man can get ahead, man; and when white will embrace what is right.

  Joseph Lowery

  Men, Yellow, White

  Joseph Lowery's Inaugural Benediction, voices.washingtonpost.com. January 20, 2009.

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• It will be readily admitted that brown tints have never coursed beneath our skin; it will be discovered that yellow shines forth in our flesh, that red blazes, and that green, blue and violet dance upon it with untold charms, voluptuous and caressing.

  Umberto Boccioni

  Blue, Yellow, Shining

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• Why couldn't I be more like other girls my age? Take Mrs. Brown's niece. She spent every waking hour sizing up this beau or that, stitching tea towels and petticoats and putting aside a little each month for a set of Spode Buttercup dishes.

  Kirby Larson

  Girl, Women, Niece

  Kirby Larson (2013). “Hattie Ever After”, p.4, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• Almost no one under 60 remembers what fundraising was like before Watergate. Until the 1970s, campaign money was collected by "bagmen," familiar characters from the world of organized crime. As fans of Boardwalk Empire know, a bagman is a political fixer who walked around with stacks of $100 and $1,000 bills. At lower levels, he used brown paper bags. In presidential campaigns, the cash was more likely to be in briefcases. Classier that way.

  Jonathan Alter

  Character, Fundraising, Presidential

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• Whether the color of your skin is black, white, yellow, brown or purple - the extent of this tragedy is so incredibly devastating that we had to do something.

  Bert McCracken

  Color, Purple, Yellow

  "Rockers Plug In for Katrina". Ventura County Star, September 10, 2005.

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• Some people think that macrobiotic philosophy is no more than the teaching of a diet - the eating of brown rice, carrots, and gomashio (sesame salt), others imagine that it is summed up in the statement, "Don't eat cake and sugar." How far from the truth!

  George Ohsawa

  Philosophy, Teaching, Thinking

  "Essential Ohsawa: From Food to Health, Happiness to Freedom - Understanding the Basics of Macrobiotics". Book edited by Carl Ferré and Herman Aihara, p. 82, 1994.

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• It is not easy to stop brown envelope because journalists are part of the society

  Dele Momodu

  Envelopes, Easy, Journalist

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• Many Americans who supported the initial thrust of civil rights, as represented by the Brown v. Board of Education decision and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, later felt betrayed as the original concept of equal individual opportunity evolved toward the concept of equal group results.

  Thomas Sowell

  Opportunity, Rights, Decision

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• Republican Scott Brown lost his bid for Senate in New Hampshire last night, two years after he was voted out as Senator in Massachusetts. When asked what he was planning to do next, he said, 'Are they still looking for a mayor in Toronto?'

  Jimmy Fallon

  Night, Years, Two

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• I wish I could Buy Time - just write a cheque, and a few days later a brown cardboard box would arrive at the door containing three months (along with an extra bonus sunny weekend for being a good customer).

  Neil Gaiman

  Writing, Weekend, Doors

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• I doubt if I shall ever outgrow the excitement bordering on panic which I feel the instant I know I have a strong, unmanageable fish, be it brook trout, brown trout, cutthroat, rainbow, steelhead or salmon on my line.

  Ed Weeks

  Strong, Sea, Fishing

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• ...there are few things deader than a dead brown trout stream.

  Ed Zern

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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• It began with one act of madness, and it ended with another. John Brown heard history's clock strike in the night and tried to hurry dawn along with gunfire; now John Wilkes Booth heard the clock strike, and he tried with gunfire to restore the darkness. Each man stood outside the human community, directed by voices the sane do not hear, and each kept history from going logically... The line from Harper's Ferry to Ford's Theater is a red thread binding the immense disorder of the Civil War into an irrational sort of coherence.

  Bruce Catton

  War, Night, Men

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• Yeah, I tell them to change the channel if they see some guy in a brown suit with a telephone number at the bottom of the screen asking for money.

  Frank Zappa

  Numbers, Guy, Atheism

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• I love cops. I think you have to walk in their shoes to understand, you know when they use violence, Michael Brown in Ferguson, a classic case.

  Geraldo Rivera

  Thinking, Shoes, Ferguson

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today - my own government.... There is something strangely inconsistent about a nation and a press that would praise you when you say, 'Be nonviolent toward Jim Clark,' but will curse and damn you when you say, 'Be nonviolent toward little brown Vietnamese children!' There is something wrong with that press.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Children, Ghetto, Damn You

  "We Need Martin Luther King Jr.’s Antiwar Rage Now More Than Ever" by Ja’han Jones, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 04, 2018.

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• The Nazis, for him, are merely available movie tropes--articulate monsters with a talent for sadism. By making the Americans cruel, too, he escapes the customary division of good and evil along national lines, but he escapes any sense of moral accountability as well. In a Tarantino war, everyone commits atrocities. Like all the director's work after 'Jackie Brown,' the movie is pure sensation. It's disconnected from feeling, and an eerie blankness--it's too shallow to be called nihilism--undermines even the best scenes.

  David Denby

  War, Eerie, Evil

  David Denby (2013). “Do the Movies Have a Future?”, p.252, Simon and Schuster

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