Suny Stony Brook

Famous quotes containing the words stony and/or brook:

    “Now I know
    That twenty centuries of stony sleep
    Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
    And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
    Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “When a man lives with God, his voice shall be as sweet as the murmur of the brook and the rustle of the corn.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)