Famous quotes containing the words brooks adams, brooks and/or adams:
“She atoned for want of devotion to God, by devotion to man. She had a woman’s natural tendency towards asceticism, self-extinction, self-abnegation.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)
“For I am rightful fellow of their band.
My best allegiances are to the dead.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“America had no use for Adams because he was eighteenth-century, and yet it worshipped Grant because he was archaic and should have lived in a cave and worn skins.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)