Brain/history

Famous quotes containing the words brain and/or history:

    “My mother is jelly-hearted and she has a brain of jelly:
    Sweet, quiver-soft, irrelevant. Not essential.
    Only a habit would cry if she should die....”
    Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    Tell me of the height of the mountains of the moon, or of the diameter of space, and I may believe you, but of the secret history of the Almighty, and I shall pronounce thee mad.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)