Brooks Atkinson (1894 - 1984), Once Around the Sun, 1951 There is a mysterious cycle in human events.
Phillips Brooks (1835 - 1893) You can pray for someone even if you don't think God exists.
Mel Brooks (1926 - ) Tragedy is when I cut my finger.
Brooks Atkinson (1894 - 1984), Once Around the Sun, 1951 Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy.
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917 - ) Every man is the builder of a temple called his body.
1 Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head; And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in everything.
1 Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head; And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in everything.
But the wicked step-mother was a witch, and had seen how the two children had gone away, and had crept after them secretly, as witches creep, and had bewitched all the brooks in the forest.
Let us climb to the dazzling snow-fields at their summits, and descend again to the green meadows beneath, through which rivers and brooks rush along as if they could not quickly enough reach the sea and vanish.
Merrily rippled the clear brooks and rivulets between the green, velvety rushes, and over the many-colored pebbles beneath.
