155 Quotes by Robert Brown

The flag went up very fast, in violation of historic district laws. I'm not sure how it happened. But all this fervor could have been prevented. Unfortunately, people focused on the flag, not the issue of the procedures. Our procedures are no less important than any other board or commission.

Mexico has done some record-setting ... opium and marijuana production eradication,

The guys played well for Thomas. They were sad because they believed we could do better, but they did great. It would have been the equivalent of the 'Miracle on Ice' if we won this match.

Who fished the murex up? / What porridge had John Keats?

The high that proved too high, the heroic for earth too hard, / The passion that left the ground to lose itself in the sky, / Are music sent up to God by the lover and the bard; / Enough that he heard it once; we shall hear it by-and-by.

We need to prepare the airport for whatever the future might bring. If the future brings an industry, we need to be ready. If it brings the loss of one of our airlines, we need to be ready for that, too.

Ah, did you once see Shelley plain, / And did he stop and speak to you / And did he speak to you again? / How strange it seems and new!

White shall not neutralize the black, nor good Compensate bad in man, absolve him so: Life's business being just the terrible choice

Ages past the soul existed, / Here an age 'tis resting merely.