Famous quotes containing the words brooks and/or directed:
“Shut your rhetorics in a box;
Pack compunction and go home.
Skeleton, settle, down in bed.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“If any doubt has arisen as to me, my country [Virginia] will have my political creed in the form of a “Declaration &c.” which I was lately directed to draw. This will give decisive proof that my own sentiment concurred with the vote they instructed us to give.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)