Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes

Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.

Gwendolyn Brooks

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 7, 1917 - December 3, 2000

Topics

HomeArtStayEasierHurtsUrges

The advantage of using airships in remote areas with little road infrastructure to support development is clear. Airships could ensure the delivery of humanitarian supplies to remote communities.

Jens Martin Skibsted

SupportRoadDevelopmentDelivery

Welding torches, cutting torches and any activity producing a flame outside is prohibited. Any open flame is discouraged.

John Glover

FlameOutsideOpenDiscouragedAny

In the early 1980s, I got into a war with my management - they just kept on suing me and I lost everything. So I had to go out on tour to make sure the electricity stayed on.

Meat Loaf

WarMeManagementElectricityEarly

The crimes in my books are committed by people who can't keep it together any more. They do something to express their own pain, and that has a terrible effect on somebody else.

Sophie Hannah

TogetherPainPeopleMoreOwnKeep

In Grand Slam, you play every two days, five-set match. You have a little bit more time to make mistake.

Stan Wawrinka

TimeMistakeYouPlayMoreDays

For many Taiwanese, almost all Taiwanese, we'd like to we say we are a country, and we have a sovereignty of our own.

Tsai Ing-wen

CountrySayOwnSovereigntyAlmost

I've been very fortunate to have had the opportunities to have the career I've had.

Travis Tritt

OpportunitiesCareerFortunateBeen

Juvenile crime is not naturally born in the boy, but is largely due either to the spirit of adventure that is in him, to his own stupidity, or to his lack of discipline, according to the nature of the individual.

Robert Baden-Powell

NatureDisciplineAdventureStupidity

When I was a kid, I loved history because history to me was a big story.

Roy Conli

HistoryMeStoryLovedKidBig

As an Egyptian-American, I want both sides of that hyphen to enjoy the forms of freedom guaranteed by the First Amendment, as I want both sides of that hyphen to move beyond the deceptive simplicity of the question, 'Why do they hate us?'

Mona Eltahawy

FreedomHateSimplicityEnjoyWant

We're trying keep 'The Originals' in the same world as 'The Vampire Diaries.'

Joseph Morgan

WorldTryingVampireSameKeep

I listened to my kids talk about me as a parent, and I learned about things they wished I'd done and said. And I wished that I had done more of those things.

Don Yaeger

MeParentSaidDoneTalkMore

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