Famous quotes containing the words brooks adams, brooks and/or adams:
“One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)
“Life for my child is simple, and is good.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“Our [adult] children have an adult’s right to make their own choices and have the responsibility of living with the consequences. If we make their problems ours, they avoid that responsibility, and we are faced with problems we can’t and shouldn’t solve.”
—Jane Adams (20th century)