Lyman Beecher Brooks

Famous quotes containing the words lyman, beecher and/or brooks:

“Isn’t it strange some people make
You feel so tired inside,
Your thoughts begin to shrivel up
Like leaves all brown and dried!”
—Rachel Lyman Field (1894–1942)

“No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.”
—Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896)

“I had to kick their law into their teeth in order to save them.
However I have heard that sometimes you have to deal
Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
Or they will haul themselves and you to the trash and the fish beneath.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)