Brooks

Famous quotes containing the word brooks:

    In Little Rock the people bear
    Babes, and comb and part their hair
    And watch the want ads, put repair
    To roof and latch.
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    What a hot theopathy
    Roisters through her, gnaws the walls....
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    Like most vigorous-minded men, seeing that there was no stopping-place between dogma and negation, he preferred to accept dogma. Of all weaknesses he most disliked timed and half-hearted faith. He would rather have jumped at once to Strong’s pure denial, than yield an inch to the argument that a mystery was to be paltered with because it could not be explained.
    —Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)