Brooks

Famous quotes containing the word brooks:

“As History stands, it is a sort of Chinese Play, without end and without lesson.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)

“I believe it was a good job,
Despite this possible horror: that they might prefer the
Preservation of their law in all its sick dignity and their knives
To the continuation of their creed
And their lives.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

“Run.
People are coming. They must not catch us here
Definitionless in this strict atmosphere.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)