Brownest Self Quotes & Sayings

In every landscape, the point of astonishment is the meeting of the sky and the earth, and that is seen from the first hillock aswell as from the top of the Alleghanies. The stars at night stoop down over the brownest, homeliest common, with all the spiritual magnificence which they shed on the Campagna, or on the marble deserts of Egypt. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

My dad passed away ... and suddenly I found myself at the top of the tree and looking at the sky instead of at my mom and dad. — Neil Young

beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. — Oscar Wilde

The things we do in the name of protecting others are so often attempts to spare some part of ourselves. — Angela Flournoy

The most devout among us become atheistic in this connection; we do not believe God, we enthrone common sense and tack the name of God on to it. We do lean to our own understanding, instead of trusting God with all our hearts. — Oswald Chambers

Go pillage the pretty pink birds, Sparrow. Before they come back to life and peck our eyes out. — Anonymous

Military power serves the cause of security by making prohibitive the cost of any aggressive attack. It serves the cause of peace by holding up a shield behind which the patient constructive work of peace can go on. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Of all the Charlie Browns in the world, you're the Charlie Brownest. — Charles M. Schulz

Silence is the sanctuary of prudence. — Baltasar Gracian

And it's true, I have a perfectly fine face, eyes that may well be 'kind' but are also the brownest of browns, a reasonable-sized nose and the kind of smile that causes photographs to be thrown away. — David Nicholls