Top 158 Brook Quotes & Sayings

By the wood-shed is a brook. It goes singing on. Its joy-song does sing in my heart.

Humor wades across a brook, wit jumps over it.

Brook Lopez is huge!

I'm looking for a woman with the body of Kelly Brook and the mind of Stephen Fry.

Brook isn't just my brother, he's one of my closest friends. That won't change.

Everyone has experienced that truth: that love, like a running brook, is disregarded, taken for granted; but when the brook freezes over, then people begin to remember how it was when it ran, and they want it to run again.

Learn this from water: loud splashes the brook but the oceans depth are calm.

Narrative should flow as flows the brook down through the hills and the leafy woodlands...a brook that never goes straight for a minute, but goes and goes briskly, sometimes ungrammatically, and sometimes fetching a horseshoe of ¾ of a mile around and at the end of the circuit flowing within a yard of the path that it traversed an hour before; but always going and always following at least one law, always loyal to that law, the law of narrative, which has no law. Nothing to do but make the trip; the how of it is not important, so that the trip is made.

True love will not brook reserve; it feels undervalued and outraged, when even the sorrows of those it loves are concealed from it.

The lower Farmington River and Salmon Brook are unparalleled natural treasures with some of the highest water quality in Connecticut.

The genius of the people will ill brook the inquisitive and peremptory spirit of excise laws.

I used to feel guilty about spending morning hours working on a book; about fleeing to the brook in the afternoon. It took several summers of being totally frazzled by September to make me realize that this was a false guilt. I'm much more use to family and friends when I'm not physically and spiritually depleted than when I spend my energies as though they were unlimited. They are not. The time at the typewriter and the time at the brook refresh me and put me into a more workable perspective.

Neither love nor ambition, as it has often been shown, can brook a division of its empire in the heart.

Memory is a net: one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.

A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune.

The brook would lose its song if we removed the rocks.

When a man lives with God, his voice shall be as sweet as the murmur of the brook and rustle of the corn.

Kill a man's family, and he may brook it, But keep your hands out of his breeches' pocket.

Kell Brook has a lot of heart. He showed it against Golovkin and when he came over here to the States and fought Shawn Porter. He's a real warrior in the ring.

Many can brook the weather that love not the wind.

But what would interest you about the brook, It's always cold in summer, warm in winter.

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

There is a willow grows aslant a brook, That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream; There with fantastic garlands did she come Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples That liberal shepherds give a grosser name, But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them: There, on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke; When down her weedy trophies and herself Fell in the weeping brook.

Now gae your wa'sTho'anes as gude As ever happit flesh and blude, Yet part we maunthe case sae hard is, Amang the writers and the bardies That lang they'll brook the auld I trow, Or neibours cry,'Weel brook the new'.

Squirrelflight rested her tail on his shoulder, urging him to lie still until his injuries could be treated. Brambleclaw led Stormfur and Brook up to Firestar. The Clan leader's eyes stretched wide in surprise. "Stormfur...and Brook! What are you doing here?" "There'll be time to explain later," Stormfur meowed. "For now, Firestar, put us to work.

I wandered by the brook-side, I wandered by the mill; I could not hear the brook flow, The noisy wheel was still.

Standing, with reluctant feet, Where the brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet!

Faith is knowing there is an ocean because you have seen a brook.

Physicians are like kings- They brook no contradiction.

You see aright. I am both Queen and Elidhu, here and there, wildfire and hearthfire, forgetting and remembrance. But do no yet speak of this, for men are impatient with such things and do not brook contradiction.

Fame is a jealous mistress And will brook no rival.

We are a water-drinking people, and we are allowing every brook to be defiled.

The blue and bright-eyed floweret of the brook, Hope's gentle gem, the sweet Forget-me-not.

Brook and I both own a house. He doesn't do any of the work to maintain it, clean it.

Education makes a straight ditch of a free meandering brook.

Robert Frost's triumph was not being at John Kennedy's inauguration ceremony, but the day when he put the last period on "West-Running Brook.

Oh for a seat in some poetic nook, Just hid with trees and sparkling with a brook!

To babble is to make a feminine noise somewhat resembling the sound of a brook, but with less meaning.

Who are the farmer's servants? ... Geology and Chemistry, the quarry of the air, the water of the brook, the lightning of the cloud, the castings of the worm, the plough of the frost.

GGG is a great fighter, but he hasn't got the ability that Kell has - Brook is the far superior boxer.

Our life runs down in sending up the clock. The brook runs down in sending up our life. The sun runs down in sending up the brook. And there is something sending up the sun.

When the enterprising burglar isn't burgling; When the cut-throat isn't occupied in crime; He loves to hear the little brook a-gurgling; And listen to the merry village chime.

Thine eyes are springs in whose serene And silent waters heaven is seen. Their lashes are the herbs that look On their young figures in the brook.

Kell Brook was saying he wants to forget about Amir Khan; he wants to fight Pacquiao and Mayweather. These guys don't know who Kell Brook is.

I remember my first review in London said I was the next Peter Brook. I said: 'No way. I'm not Peter Brook. I don't have the maturity, the experience, the intelligence. Don't burden me.'

Death lieth still in the way of life, Like as a stone in the way of a brook; I will sing against thee, Death, as the brook does, I will make thee into music which does not die.

Brook is my sounding board about everything - including being tall.

O lovely eyes of azure, Clear as the waters of a brook that run Limpid and laughing in the summer sun!

Stony Brook is a phenomenal university and I am proud to be affiliated with it, so it is gratifying to be able to support this wonderful institution in whatever way I can.

Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.

Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.

If the voice of the brook was not the first song of celebration, it must have been at least an obbligato for that event.

There's a fine line between a stream of consciousness and a babbling brook to nowhere.

Brook Lopez had a better game than Deron Williams

I was born in Westchester, NY. I grew up around the Rye Brook area, and then I moved to White Plains with my family.

This is not a brook [Bach means "brook" in German], it's an ocean.

Our life runs down in sending up the clock. The brook runs down in sending up our life. The sun runs down in sending up the brook. And there is something sending up the sun. It is this backward motion toward the source, Against the stream, that most we see ourselves in, The tribute of the current to the source. It is from this in nature we are from. It is most us.

I am supremely humbled to receive the 40 Under Forty honor by Stony Brook University in the category of Civil Service and Activism.

And the yellow sunflower by the brook, in autumn beauty stood.

I sit with my toes in a brook, And if any one axes forwhy? I hits them a rap with my crook, For 'tis sentiment does it, says I.