Top 100 Quotes About John Brown
#1. To sell John Brown what John Brown buys, you've got to see things through John Brown's eyes.
Anonymous
#2. If not for the direct action of a John Brown and his comrades, America would still trade in the flesh of the black man.
Emma Goldman
#3. [On John Brown:] The poor wretch is hanged, but from his grave a root of bitterness will spring, the fruit of which at no distant day may be disunion and civil war.
Fanny Kemble
#5. This will be a great day in our history; the date of a New Revolution - quite as much needed as the old one. Even now as I write they are leading old John Brown to execution in Virginia for attempting to rescue slaves! This is sowing the wind to reap the whirlwind which will come soon!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#6. Did John Brown fail? John Brown began the war that ended American slavery and made this a free Republic.
Frederick Douglass
#7. Beneath this slab John Brown is stowed. He watched the ads, And not the road.
Ogden Nash
#8. I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood.
John Mason Brown
#9. John Brown first swam into my vision in the 1960s when I was a political activist in the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement at Chapel Hill, where I went to university.
Russell Banks
#10. In firing his gun, John Brown has merely told what time of day it is. It is high noon.
William Lloyd Garrison
#11. Show me a man who feels bitterly toward John Brown, and let me hear what noble verse he can repeat. He'll be as dumb as if his lips were stone.
Henry David Thoreau
#12. Life is legal tender, and individual character stamps its value. We are from a thousand mints, and all genuine. Despite our infinitely diverse appraisements, we make change for one another. So many ideals planted are worth the great gold of Socrates; so many impious laws broken are worth John Brown.
Louise Imogen Guiney
#13. The attack of John Brown upon Harper's Ferry came upon Virginia like a clap of thunder out of a clear sky.
John Sergeant Wise
#14. it was Abraham Lincoln who freed the slaves, not John Brown. In 1859, John Brown was hanged, with federal complicity, for attempting to do by small-scale violence what Lincoln would do by large-scale violence several years later - end slavery.
Howard Zinn
#15. John Brown was tried for treason, murder, and inciting slaves to insurrection.
John Sergeant Wise
#16. The 60s passed and faded and I grew older, and in 1987 bought a house in upstate New York, and it turned out that John Brown was buried down the road from my house and that he had lived there longer than anywhere else and his house was still standing.
Russell Banks
#17. We've actually bought quite a number of historical pieces. We are doing a piece on the abolitionists, Harper's Ferry and the abolitionist John Brown with Paul Giamatti.
John Landgraf
#18. John Brown, raised by disciplinarians, became one himself.
Tony Horwitz
#19. Of all the men who were said to be my contemporaries, it seemed to me that John Brown was the only one who had not died.
Henry David Thoreau
#20. All three explanations - eternal life, reincarnation, and nothingness - are descriptions of the same reality.
John K. Brown
#21. Come with me, Douglass; I will defend you with my life. I want you for a special purpose. When I strike, the bees will begin to swarm, and I shall want you to help hive them.
John Brown
#22. A health to the nut-brown lass, With the hazel eyes: let it pass ... As much to the lively grey 'Tis as good i' th' night as day: ... She's a savour to the glass, And excuse to make it pass.
John Suckling
#23. Only the chicken-lover will understand me. He will give me a kindly look, maybe mildly desirous. His eyes will tell me: You might look a lot better with some reddish-brown feathers.
John Irving
#24. Nowhere are prejudices more mistaken for truth, passion for reason and invective for documentation than in politics.
John Mason Brown
#25. Love isn't self-centered, even at the supreme scale.
John K. Brown
#26. The act of focusing our mightiest intellectual resources on the elusive goal of goto-less programs has helped us get our minds off all those really tough and possibly unresolvable problems and issues with which today's professional programmer would otherwise have to grapple
John Brown
#27. There is a shrine in the temple of age, where lie forever embalmed the memories of such as have deserved well of their country and their race.
John Brown
#28. At the age of 70-something, Helen Gurley Brown was still a woman who knew how to get men to look at her.
John Searles
#29. Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child's reason without destroying your own.
John Mason Brown
#31. Thither he bent his way, determined there
to rest at noon; and entered soon the shade
high roofed, and walks beneath, and alleys brown,
That opened in the midst a woody scene;
Nature's own work it seemed, Nature-taught Art
John Milton
#32. Truth is, something exists, and everything exists for a reason. Regardless if the reason is known or unknown, knowable or unknowable, reason exists and can be named.
John K. Brown
#33. The same eye cannot both look up to heaven and down to earth.
John Brown
#34. I have been whipped, as the saying is, but I am sure I can recover all the lost capital occasioned by that disaster; by only hanging a few moments by the neck; and I feel quite determined to make the utmost possible out of a defeat.
John Brown
#35. No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.
John Mason Brown
#36. I say, then, that viewed from that standpoint, there is but one single subject of complaint which Virginia has to make against the government under which we live; a complaint made by the whole South, and that is on the subject of African slavery ...
John Brown Baldwin
#37. I never had a hat, never wore one, but recently was given a brown suede duck-hunting hat. The moment I put it on I realized I was starved for a hat. I kept it warm by putting it on my head. I made plans to wear it especially when I was going to do any thinking. Somewhere in Virginia, I lost my hat.
John Cage
#38. These men are all talk; What is needed is action - action!
John Brown
#39. The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.
John Mason Brown
#41. He was in his mid-thirties, tall and pale and thin, with long, sandy hair and rimless glasses, dressed in brown polyester pants, cheap brown shoes, and a light tan shirt. He looked like someone had put a wig on a giraffe and run it through the local Target.
John Connolly
#42. I have lived long enough to be battered by the realities of life, and not too long to be downed by them.
John Mason Brown
#43. I will answer anything I can with honor, but not about others.
John Brown
#44. Here, before God, in the presence of these witnesses, from this time, I consecrate my life to the destruction of slavery!
John Brown
#45. John Seely Brown, the former director of Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center, once said, The essence of being human involves asking questions, not answering them.
Eric Schmidt
#46. Remember," Duncan asked on the plane, "how Walt asked if it was green or brown?"
Both Garp and Duncan laughed. But it was neither green nor brown, Garp thought. It was me. It was Helen. It was the color of bad weather. It was the size of an automobile.
John Irving
#47. He is a strange, resolute, repulsive, iron-willed, inexorable old man, [possessing] a firey nature and a cold temper, and a cooler head--a volcano beneath a covering of snow.
William A. Phillips
#48. I don't think the people of the slave states will ever consider the subject of slavery in its true light till some other argument is resorted to other than moral persuasion.
John Brown
#49. The type of nothing from which something can arise is truly something.
John K. Brown
#50. He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace.
John Mason Brown
#51. Wizened and white, with brown blotched on her face the size and complexity of unshelled peanuts, Midge had a jitter in her head that made her pew like a chicken trying to make up its mind what to peck.
John Irving
#52. She gathered some brown seaweed and made a flat damp poultice of it, and this she applied to the baby's swollen shoulder, which was as good a remedy as any and probably better than the doctor could have done. But the remedy lacked his authority because it was simple and didn't cost anything.
John Steinbeck
#53. How prophetic L'Enfant was when he laid out Washington as a city that goes around in circles!
John Mason Brown
#54. We are all socialists now, it seems. John McCain, David Cameron and Gordon Brown attack bankers' irresponsible behaviour and salaries, and call for state intervention in the financial markets. But these calls will not get them elected or re-elected if they are addressed only to the banking sector.
Noreena Hertz
#55. Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forced fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year.
John Milton
#56. Metagapism is the belief that love is the ultimate reality, literally god and the one shared soul, and the source, nature and destiny of all.
John K. Brown
#57. The insanely gorgeous competition documentary on surfing obsession, Step Into Liquid - directed by Dana Brown and photographed by John-Paul Beeghly in hypnotic gradations of aquamarine - will send you into a dream state.
Elvis Mitchell
#58. Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.
John Mason Brown
#59. I think every family should have a dog; it is like having a perpetual baby; it is the plaything and crony of the whole house. It keeps them all young.
John Brown
#61. When Christmas first began, the celebrations included getting intoxicated, having sex, and singing naked in the streets (the origin of modern Christmas caroling).
John Brown
#62. I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.
John Mason Brown
#63. And then I couldn't wait anymore, and my hand was on the back of her head, and then her lips on mine, the cold air gone and replaced with the warmth of her mouth, soft and sweet and hash-brown-tastic
John Green
#64. People who never did a heroic deed themselves are very particular as to how heroes behave...
Annie Brown
#65. Along the wide curving moat surrounding the palace, rows of cherry trees announced the end of their seasonal beauty. Some of the trees were weeping: blossoms in white and palest pink, ponderous with decreptitude, eddying on the brown water, stirred by the paddling of ducks.
John Burnham Schwartz
#66. First stage is knowing the truth, second is not knowing the truth, third is realizing the paradox.
John K. Brown
#67. Harriet told her, 'Captain John was so brave. He stayed there in the battle until his leg was shot off.' Victoria's brown eyes rested thoughtfully on Captain John. Why didn't he stay until the other leg was shot off?' she asked. But he still seemed to like Victoria best.
Rumer Godden
#68. As the game enters its glorious final weeks, the chill of fall signals the reality of defeat for all but one team. The fields of play will turn brown and harden, the snow will fall, but in the heart of the fan sprouts a sprig of green.
John Thorn
#69. People need to know more than what a piece of information means. They also need to know how the information matters.
John Seely Brown
#71. Had I so interfered in behalf of the rich, the powerful, the intelligent, the so-called great, or in behalf of any of their friends ... every man in this court would have deemed it an act worthy of reward rather than punishment.
John Brown
#72. General Lee, this is no place for you. These men behind you are Georgians and Virginians. They have never failed you and will not fail you here. Will you boys?
John Brown Gordon
#73. The more one has seen of the good, the more one asks for the better.
John Mason Brown
#74. A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.
John Mason Brown
#75. No man, with a man's heart in him, gets far on his way without some bitter, soul-searching disappointment. - Happy he who is brave enough to push on another stage of the journey, and rest where there are "living springs of water, and three-score and ten palms."
John Brown
#76. I cannot remember a night so dark as to have hindered the coming day.
John Brown
#77. She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.
John Mason Brown
#79. The purpose of writing is to hold a mirror to nature, but too much today is written from small mirrors in vanity cases.
John Mason Brown
#80. So far as I ever observed God's dealings with my soul, the flights of preachers sometimes entertained me, but it was Scripture expressions which did penetrate my heart, and in a way peculiar to themselves.
John Brown
#81. The job of leadership today is not just to make money, it's to make meaning.
John Seely Brown
#82. It's never enough to just tell people about some new insight. Rather, you have to get them to experience it a way that evokes its power and possibility. Instead of pouring knowledge into people's heads, you need to help them grind anew set of eyeglasses so they can see the world in a new way.
John Seely Brown
#83. I am worth inconceivably more to hang than for any other purpose.
John Brown
#84. It was said by Abraham Lincoln that Ms. Stowe's novel, UNCLE TOM'S CABIN, started the great civil war, the it can be said with certainty that Ms. Brown's novel THE SOUTHERN CROSS reveals the untold story behind the Civil Rights Movement." John Jeter
Alabama Jane Brown
#85. Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity.
John Brown
#86. I want you to understand that I respect the rights of the poorest and weakest of colored people, oppressed [to deny others their rights or liberty] by the slave system, just as much as I do those of the most wealthy and powerful. That is the idea that has moved me, and that alone.
John Brown
#89. I live in a beautiful place, I work at something I love, I make enough money to live, and my demands on the world's resources are very meager. What's unusual about this idyllic circumstance is that there is plenty of room for more to join.
John Brown
#90. Something deathless and dangerous in the world sweeps past you ... It is something fearful and ominous, something turbulent and to be dreaded, which distends the drama to include the life of nations as well as of men. It is an ageless warning ...
John Mason Brown
#91. For me, the concept of design is more than object-oriented; it encompasses the design of processes, systems and institutions as well. Increasingly, we need to think about designing the types of institutions we need to get things done in this rapidly accelerating world.
John Seely Brown
#92. The intent and not the deed
Is in our power; and, therefore, who dares greatly
Does greatly.
John Brown
#93. God spare me sclerosis of the curiosity, for the curiosity which craves to keep us informed about the small things no less than the large is the mainspring, the dynamo, the jet propulsion of all complete living.
John Mason Brown
#94. MYTH 280. | Spaghetti originated in Italy. Spaghetti originated in China. Magellan tasted it on his travels in Asian and brought
John Brown
#95. There are those who act," he said. "And those who are acted upon. I'm not ever going to leave you in a position again where you have no choice.
John D. Brown
#96. Charm is a glow within a woman that casts a most becoming light on others.
John Mason Brown
#97. MYTH506. | There is an American flag on the Moon. According to Buzz Aldrin, one of the astronauts who was on the Moon, he and Neil Armstrong accidentally placed the original American flag too close to their spacecraft, and when they took off, the flag was blown away.
John Brown
#100. Part of the American myth is that people who are handed the skin of a dead sheep at graduating time think that it will keep their minds alive forever.
John Mason Brown
