Famous quotes containing the words brooks adams, brooks and/or adams:
“Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)
“Abortions will not let you forget.
You remember the children you got that you did not get,”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)