H.j. Brown Quotes & Sayings

Don't delay acting on a good idea. Chances are someone else has just thought of it, too. Success comes to the one who acts first. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

I've learned ... That being kind is more important than being right. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Never be ashamed of honest tears. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

I've learned that it doesn't matter how your husband squeezes the toothpaste, the important thing is how he squeezes you. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Become the kind of person who brightens a room just by entering it. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

No partnership matters more. The relationship with the one you marry provides 90 percent of your happiness and 90 percent of your misery. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Wear audacious underwear under the most solemn business attire. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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A pretty girl with one blue eye and one brown one. — H.L. Mencken

When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don't let anyone persuade you to say it. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Don't waste time waiting for inspiration. Begin, and inspiration will find you. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Don't expect others to listen to your advice and ignore your example. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Hope is the magic carpet that transports us from the present moment into the realm of infinite possibilities. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

When you hug someone,
never be the first to let go. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Sometimes a high moon, liquid-brilliant, scudded across a hollow space and took cover under electric, brown-iridescent cloud-edges. — D.H. Lawrence

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Don't forget, a person's greatest emotional need is to feel appreciated. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Make a list of twenty-five things you want to experience before you die. Carry it in your wallet or purse and refer to it often. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Take care of your reputation. It's your most valuable asset. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

When you are angry or frustrated, what comes out? Whatever it is, it's a good indication of what you're made of. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Dishonesty is like a boomerang. About the time you think all is well, it hits you in the back of the head. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

When lending people money, be sure their character exceeds their collateral. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

So black people all across this country are uniting. They must unite, and they must organize themselves. — H. Rap Brown

Spend your time and energy creating, not criticizing. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

You either make dust or eat dust. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

If you want to do something and you feel in your bones that it's the right thing to do, do it. Intuition is often as important as the facts. 663 — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Buy whatever kids are selling on card tables in their front yard. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

And understand: class differences will not save you. — H. Rap Brown

You cannot make someone love you. All you can do is be someone who can be loved. The rest is up up them. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Attack those concepts such as 'third world.' Think about it. If we look at it in terms of numbers, then people of color are the majority in this world. We should be the 'first world.' — H. Rap Brown

An old African leader says about leadership, he says that leadership should never be shared; it should always remain in the hands of the dispossessed people. We will lead the revolution. — H. Rap Brown

In truth, if I admitted to the world that I believe God made me as I am, the church would excommunicate me, but I know this to be true. I am not an evil man - nor greedy, nor cruel to those in need. Yet the law would have me hang for love, the purest of human emotions. — H.C. Brown

You see, the poverty program for the last five years have been buy-off programs. — H. Rap Brown

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

No such thing as a Dixiecrat. — H. Rap Brown

While earning your daily bread, be sure you share a slice with those less fortunate. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Individuals do not create rebellions; conditions do. — H. Rap Brown

Overpay good baby-sitters. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Be the first to say, "Hello". — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Connie went for walks in the park, and in the woods that joined the park, and enjoyed the solitude and the mystery, kicked the brown leaves of autumn, and picked the primroses of spring. But it was all a dream; or rather it was like the simulacrum of reality. The oak leaves were to her like oak-leaves seen ruffling in a mirror, she herself was a figure somebody had read about, picking primroses that were only shadows or memories, or words. No substance to her or anything ... no touch, no contact! — D.H. Lawrence

Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Life is slippery. We all need a loving hand to hold onto. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country. — H. Rap Brown

Show respect for everyone who works for a living, regardless of how trivial their job. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Use your past successes as a trampoline, not an easy chair. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

The peasants of Sicily, who have kept their own wheat and make their own natural brown bread, ah, it is amazing how fresh and sweet and clean their loaf seems, so perfumed, as home-made bread used all to be before the war. — D.H. Lawrence

And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers - shriveled now, and brown and flat and brittle - to witness that even when mind and strength had gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of men. — H.G.Wells

I think you're better off without him." Ashley didn't lift her blue eyes from her scarf as she offered her thoughts; her long,straight brown hair was pulled into a clever twist. She was a nurse practitioner originally from Tennessee and I loved listening to her accent; "I never trust a Jon without an 'h'. John should be spelled J-o-h-n, not J-o-n. — Penny Reid

If you need to bring in a business partner, make sure your partner brings along some money. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Don't judge those who try and fail. Judge only those who fail to try. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Believe in miracles but don't depend on them. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Be quick to take advantage of an advantage. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Young love is wild and outrageous, laughing at moderation and blinding us to common sense. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Destiny lies not in the stars, but in our hearts. — William H. Brown

I've learned that when a man with money meets a man with experience, the man with experience ends up with the money and the man with the money ends up with experience. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Regardless of the situation, react with class. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

I've learned that moving away from my closest friends was much, much harder to do than I ever thought it would be. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Turn enemies into friends by doing something nice for them. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Every once in a while, take the scenic route. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Tell your wife often how terrific she looks. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Mature love is composed and sustaining; a celebration of commitment, companionship, and trust. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

I've learned that education, experience, and memories are three things that no one can take away from you. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Get your priorities straight. No one ever said on his death bed, 'Gee, if I'd only spent more time at the office.' — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

May your life be crowded with unexpected joys. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Fight fairly. Give generously. Laugh loudly. Love deeply. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eyes — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

The odor of burning sulphur shifted on the night air, acrid, a little foul. Somewhere, the Canaan dwellers had learned of a supplier of castor - an extract from the beaver's perineal glands. Little packets containing the brown-orange mass of dried animal matter arrived from Detroit at the Post Office's "general delivery." At home, by the kerosene light, the recipients unwrapped the packets. A poor relative sometimes would be given some of the fibrous gland, bitter and smelling slightly like strong human sweat, and the rest would go into a Mason jar. Each night, as prescribed by old Burrifous through his oracle, Ronnie, a litt1e would be mixed with clear spring water. And as it gave the water a creamy, rusty look, the owner would sigh with awe and fear. The creature, wolf or man, became more real through the very specific which was to vanquish him. — Leslie H. Whitten Jr.

Don't be called out on strikes. Go down swinging. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Be modest. A lot was accomplished before you were born. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

We talking about revolution because that's the era that you're caught in. — H. Rap Brown

Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it's just a daisy in a jelly glass. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

When there's a piano to be moved, don't reach for the stool. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Don't think you can relax yourself to happiness. Happiness comes as a result of doing. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Marry the right person. This one decision will determine 90% of your happiness or misery. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Seek opportunity, not security. A boat in the harbor is safe, but in time its bottom will rot out. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Celebrate even small victories. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Commit yourself to a mighty purpose. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

All that mankind has ever learned is nothing more than a single grain of sand on a beach that reaches to infinity. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Your religion is what you do when the sermon is over. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Every so often, push your luck. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Of the colors, blue and green have the greatest emotional range. Sad reds and melancholy yellows are difficult to turn up. Among the ancient elements, blue occurs everywhere: in ice and water, in the flame as purely as in the flower, overhead and inside caves, covering fruit and oozing out of clay. Although green enlivens the earth and mixes in the ocean, and we find it, copperish, in fire; green air, green skies, are rare. Gray and brown are widely distributed, but there are no joyful swatches of either, or any of exuberant black, sullen pink, or acquiescent orange. Blue is therefore most suitable as the color of interior life. Whether slick light sharp high bright thin quick sour new and cool or low deep sweet dark soft slow smooth heavy old and warm: blue moves easily among them all, and all profoundly qualify our states of feeling. — William H Gass

Do battle against prejudice and discrimination wherever you find it. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

After the Reagan years, there were only three people of color in the Republican Party. Their slogan was 'Republicans - the Other White Meat.' George [H.] Bush tried to dispel the 'whites only' image of his party, often referring to his Mexican-American grandkids as 'the little brown ones over there,' and nominated Clarence Uncle Thomas to the Supreme Court. — Kate Clinton

If you kiss someone on the back of the neck, it spreads. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Become the world's most thoughtful friend. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Live and learn and pass it on. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

When you can't change the direction of the wind - adjust your sails — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

I've learned that regardless of color or age, we all need about the same amount of love. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Volunteer. Sometimes the jobs no one wants conceal big opportunities. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

If you're doing your best, you won't have time to worry about failure. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.