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)

    “What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.”
    —Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896)

    “He wore like a jewel a lemon-hued lynx
    With sand-waves loving her brow.”
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)