Brown Quotes - Page 19

• But the courts have dismissed the lawsuits against me and Lee Brown.

  David Dinkins

  Court, Lawsuit

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• Then Mrs. Tiggy-winkle made tea - a cup for herself and a cup for Lucie. They sat before the fire on a bench and looked sideways at one another. Mrs. Tiggy-winkle's hand, holding the tea-cup, was very very brown, and very very wrinkly with the soap-suds; and all through her gown and her cap, there were HAIRPINS sticking wrong end out; so that Lucie didn't like to sit too near her.

  Beatrix Potter

  Fire, Hands, Tea

  Beatrix Potter (2016). “Collection of Beatrix Potter: Beatrix's Tales”, p.37, VM eBooks

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• ...the people at large absolutely gave James Brown respect. He was an original like a Rembrandt or a Picasso

  Aretha Franklin

  Music, People, Originals

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• I am attracted to generic or 'industrial' colours; paper bag brown, file cabinet gray, industrial green, that kind of thing.

  Robert Mangold

  Bags, Paper, Green

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• James Brown opened at least six of our House of Blues clubs. He always delivered, but he demanded the respect of an emperor. But, come on, he's James Brown ! ... I got to play on stage with him. Did he ever fine me ? (Brown was known to fine players for flubbing notes or steps) - I would have loved to have been fined by James Brown !

  Dan Aykroyd

  Music, Player, House

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• The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

  Mark Dunn

  Dog, Uncles, Lazy

  Mark Dunn (2010). “Ella Minnow Pea”, p.8, MP Publishing

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• [John Brown's] zeal in the cause of freedom was infinitely superior to mine. Mine was as the taper light, his was as the burning sun... I could speak for the slave. John Brown could fight for the slave.

  Frederick Douglass

  War, Light, Government

  Frederick Douglass' Lecture on John Brown, memory.loc.gov.

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• In firing his gun, John Brown has merely told what time of day it is. It is high noon.

  William Lloyd Garrison

  War, Gun, Noon

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• As Day and other observers had reported, the slaves were leading very comfortable lives. After this tactic [slave rebellions in the South] failed, it became obvious to the conspirators that an actual military invasion was the only solution to their campaign. The merchant bankers of New England, who were directly controlled by the Rothschilds, were no instructed to finance a military attack against the South. Their instrumentality was the already well-known terrorist, John Brown. He was financed by a group famed as "the Secret Six".

  Eustace Mullins

  Military, War, Secret

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• This will be a great day in our history; the date of a New Revolution - quite as much needed as the old one. Even now as I write they are leading old John Brown to execution in Virginia for attempting to rescue slaves! This is sowing the wind to reap the whirlwind which will come soon!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  War, Writing, Virginia

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.2428, Delphi Classics

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• Brown bread and the Gospel is good fare.

  Matthew Henry

  Bread

  Matthew Henry (1758). “Isaiah-Malachai”, p.662

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• I had always wanted to go to the Navy. As a young kid, I was intrigued by a Naval Officer with the beautiful brown shoes and sharp gold wings.

  Wally Schirra

  Beautiful, Kids, Wings

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• Look, my friends, if I'm a racist, this doesn't mean that I hate brown people

  Tom Tancredo

  Hate, Mean, People

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• Bobby Brown reminds me of a fellow who's been hitting for 12 years and fielding one.

  Casey Stengel

  Years, Hitting, Fellows

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• If a man dreams that he has committed a sin before which the sun hid his face, it is often safe to conjecture that, in sheer forgetfulness, he wore a red tie, or brown boots with evening dress.

  Arthur Machen

  Dream, Men, Ties

  Arthur Machen (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of Arthur Machen (Illustrated)”, p.1199, Delphi Classics

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• The Brown decision promised that every child, regardless of the color of his or her skin, would have unequivocal access to quality education and an equal opportunity to pursue his/her dreams

  Ed Markey

  Dream, Children, Opportunity

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• Elephants, it turns out, are surprisingly stealthy. As the sunlight fades, other species declare their presence. Throngs of zebras and wildebeests thunder by in the distance, trailing dust clouds. Cape buffalo snort and raise their horns and position themselves in front of their young. Giraffes stare over treetops, their huge brown eyes blinking, then lope away in seeming slow motion. But no elephants.

  Thomas French

  Zebras, Distance, Eye

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• . . . my pilot pointed to his left front and above, and looking in the direction he pointed, I saw a long dark brown form fairly streaking across the sky. We could see that it was a German machine, and when it got above and behind our middle machine, it dived on it for all the world like a huge hawk on a hapless sparrow.

  James McCudden

  Dark, Sky, Long

  James McCudden (2009). “Flying Fury: Five Years in the Royal Flying Corps”, p.85, Casemate / Greenhill

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• Here I stand before you - brown. Color of the mountains Colossal as the earth Wrapped so deliciously within my own joy and misery Feathers of my wings paralyzed by the distance of my mind Here I stand before you, the color of the night Frozen by the potential of me.

  Will Smith

  Distance, Night, Wings

  Song: Afro Angel, Album: Willennium

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• After watching films of Jim Brown, I noticed that he never ran out of bounds. He always ran North and South and that's what I turned my style into. I was a North and South runner.

  Earl Campbell

  Style, Film, North And South

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• Do you think George Bush actually knows who Gordon Brown is? He probably just thinks Tony Blair's put on weight and had a mild stroke.

  Frankie Boyle

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

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• I think brown marks a reunion of peoples, an end to ancient wanderings. Rival cultures and creeds conspire with Spring to create children of a beauty, perhaps of a harmony, previously unknown. Or long forgotten.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Children, Spring, Thinking

  Richard Rodriguez (2003). “Brown: The Last Discovery of America”, p.9, Penguin

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• In Sacramento, my brown was not halfway between black and white. On the leafy streets, on the east side of town, where my family lived, where Asians did not live, where Negroes did not live, my family's Mexican shades passed as various.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Black And White, Mexican, East

  Richard Rodriguez (2003). “Brown: The Last Discovery of America”, p.12, Penguin

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• In the Sacramento of the 1950s, it was as though White simply hadn't had time enough to figure Brown out. It was a busy white time. Brown was like the skinny or fat kids left over after the team captains chose sides. You take the rest — my cue to wander away to the sidelines, to wander away.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Team, Kids, White

  Richard Rodriguez (2003). “Brown: The Last Discovery of America”, p.13, Penguin

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• We saw the children and the women with their babies and then I heard the poouff — the flame had broken through the thatched roof and there was a yellow- brown smoke column going up into the air. It didn't hit me all that much then, but when I think of it now — I slaughtered those people. I murdered them.

  John Keegan

  Baby, Children, Thinking

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