Brown Quotes - Page 27

• James Brown and Frank Sinatra are two different quantities in the universe. They represent two different experiences of the world.

  Amiri Baraka

  Two, Different Experiences, World

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• To the Memory of those faithful brown slave-men of the plantations throughout the South, Daddy's contemporaries all, who during the war while their masters were away fighting in a cause opposed to their emancipation, brought their blankets and slept outside their mistresses' doors, thus keeping night-watch over otherwise unprotected women and children -- a faithful guardianship of which the annals of those troublous times record no instance of betrayal.

  Ruth Stout

  Children, Memories, Betrayal

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• June marked the end of spring on California's central coast and the beginning of five months of dormancy that often erupted in fire. Mustard's yellow robes had long since turned red, then brown. Fog and sun mixed to create haze. The land had rusted. The mountains, once blue-hued with young oaks and blooming ceanosis, were tan and gray. I walked across the fallen blossoms of five yucca plants: only the bare poles of their stems remained to mark where their lights had shone the way.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Nature, Spring, California

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• O'er hill and field October's glories fade;
  O'er hill and field the blackbirds southward fly;
  The brown leaves rustle down the forest glade,
  Where naked branches make a fitful shade,
  And the lost blooms of Autumn withered lie.

  George Arnold

  Lying, Autumn, Branches

  George Arnold, “October”

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• Life is legal tender, and individual character stamps its value. We are from a thousand mints, and all genuine. Despite our infinitely diverse appraisements, we make change for one another. So many ideals planted are worth the great gold of Socrates; so many impious laws broken are worth John Brown.

  Louise Imogen Guiney

  Character, Law, Broken

  Louise Imogen Guiney (1897). “Patrins, to which is added An inquirendo into the wit & other good parts of His late Majesty King Charles the Second”

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• Many books belong to sunshine, and should be read out of doors. Clover, violets, and hedge roses breathe from their leaves; they are most lovable in cool lanes, along field paths, or upon stiles overhung by hawthorn, while the blackbird pipes, and the nightingale bathes its brown feathers in the twilight copse.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Book, Twilight, Sunshine

  Robert Aris WILLMOTT (1851). “Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature”, p.99

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• Brown shoes don't make it.

  Frank Zappa

  Fashion, Shoes

  Song: Brown Shoes Don't Make It

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• A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance. It is a force seeking to conquer the earth. Sure of itself, it bullies other civilizations, as a traveling salesman in a brown derby conquers the wisdom of China and tacks advertisements of cigarettes over arches for centuries dedicated to the sayings of Confucius.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Country, Pain, Ignorance

  "Main Street". Book by Sinclair Lewis, 1920.

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• Brown people and black people and red people swarmed through our great halls, until those who were white looked simply faded-out human beings beside them. Indeed, I came to see that white is not a color in skin any more than in textiles, and if it had not quality, it had no value even for humanity. I saw that color in skin had a certain advantage in strength and warmth as a means of beauty.

  Candace Wheeler

  Mean, White, Color

  Candace Wheeler (1918). “Yesterdays in a Busy Life”

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• I was a James Brown junkie as a kid.

  L.A. Reid

  Kids, Junkie

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• There have been many great musicians that, Clifford Brown is one great example, I mean he died very early, 25.

  Sonny Rollins

  Mean, Musician, Example

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• I definitely gravitate towards things like vegetables, chicken, brown rice, but I don't deprive myself of anything. If I want a Sprinkles cupcake, I'm having a Sprinkles cupcake. But I'm not going to have one every day... you just have to have a sensible outlook on all of it.

  Abigail Spencer

  Vegetables, Cupcakes, Sprinkles

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'll plant and water, sow and weed, Till not an inch of earth shows brown, And take a vow of each small seed To grow to greenness and renown: And then some day you'll pass my way, See gold and crimson, bell and star, And catch my garden's soul, and say: "How sweet these cottage gardens are!"

  E. Nesbit

  Weed, Sweet, Stars

  Edith Nesbit, “Seed-Time And Harvest”

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• The first band I saw were Mike Sheridan and The Nightriders, in their brown mohair suits, in 1966.

  Jeff Lynne

  Band, Saws, Firsts

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• You can't just trot out a brown face or a Spanish surname and expect people are going to vote for your party or your candidate.

  Antonio Villaraigosa

  Party, People, Faces

  "DNC Chair: Democrats Will 'Set The Record Straight'". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. September 4, 2012.

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• When you get down to it, at it's root, Comedy is truth, absurdity, and pain. One of my little mottos is: 'Do you remember the Peanuts cartoon where Charlie Brown kicked the football and kissed the Little Red Haired Girl? Neither do I.

  Lev Yilmaz

  Girl, Football, Pain

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• Black, white, yellow, brown - we wanted somebody who would do right by us. And I think because Obama was that person, whether he was black or white, he was chosen

  Will Ferrell

  Thinking, Yellow, White

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I loved Belle in 'Beauty and the Beast.' I just wanted to be her. I'm a brunette, so I think I kind of cling to all those princesses that have brown hair. I just wanted to be them.

  Kara Lindsay

  Princess, Thinking, Hair

  "Diva Talk: Chatting With Newsies Star Kara Lindsay". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. September 30, 2011.

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• When you're brown and Indian, you get offered a lot of doctor roles.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Doctors, Roles, Indian

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 30, 2010.

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• The great joy of doing 'The Daily Show' for me is that I get to sit on the fence between cultures. I am commenting on the absurdity of both sides as an outsider and insider. Sometimes I'm playing the brown guy, and sometimes I'm not, but the best stuff I do always goes back to being a brown kid in a white world.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Kids, White, Guy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I carry one black mascara and one brown.

  Heather Morris

  Black, Mascara

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• I feel like 'Gossip Girl' isn't really 'Gossip Girl' anymore when they're away at school because they don't go to NYU; they go to, like, Yale and Brown. New York City is just as much a character as anyone else in the books, and I was really sort of reluctant to show them off in their separate college worlds.

  Cecily von Ziegesar

  Girl, New York, Book

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• I was bitten by a brown recluse spider. It got me as I was coming out of the shower. I'd never seen that kind of spider before, I'm from Canada and we don't get those types up there.

  Elisha

  Spiders, Canada, Kind

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• In '87, I used to do this awful, awful James Brown impression.

  Wanda Sykes

  Awful, Used, Impression

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. October 20, 2004.

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• The fact that women are very young in obtaining their civil rights and African-Americans are young in obtaining their civil rights, I think it's about time that we extend that to all Americans, whether straight, gay, purple, green, black, brown.

  Octavia Spencer

  Gay, Thinking, Rights

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