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A little while, their hunger unfulfilled,
The mothlike worlds flit 'round the guttering sun.
("Ephemera")


George Sterling

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STERLING K. BROWN Always have an attitude of gratitude.
STERLING K. BROWN It's the people who don't recognize the racism within themselves that can be the most damagi...
STERLING K. BROWN Empathy begins with understanding life from another person's perspective. Nobody has an objectiv...
STERLING K. BROWN My family did a lot of road trips across these continental United States when I was a kid. Twenty or...
STERLING K. BROWN Whether the theater is 1,000 seats or 500 seats or 200 seats, you have to make sure the person in th...
STERLING K. BROWN I was at Stanford University up in the West Coast Bay Area, so the biggest song of my freshman year ...
STERLING K. BROWN Each generation takes the earth as trustees. We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and o...
JULIUS STERLING MORTON I've spent so much of my career working intermittently, being busy and then with large swaths of...
STERLING K. BROWN I want to be remembered for a body of work so that when the next guy comes up, he could think of Ste...
STERLING K. BROWN The cultivation of trees is the cultivation of the good, the beautiful, and the ennobling in man, an...
JULIUS STERLING MORTON It's always the case that the minority has to navigate two different worlds. Women have to know ...
STERLING K. BROWN Of all the tyrants the world affords, Our own affections are the fiercest lords.
EARL OF STERLING Busy is good, you know. Busy is better than bored, and there's more recognition. Like, I try to ...
STERLING K. BROWN I go to Stanford, and I'm an economics major, not thinking I'm going to do anything with act...
STERLING K. BROWN I remember the great work that Norman Lear did. That was an incredible heyday to be a black actor.
STERLING K. BROWN Sarah Paulson doesn't lie. Like, in life. But she doesn't lie onscreen, and you can't ta...
STERLING K. BROWN Arbor Day is not like other holidays. Each of those reposes on the past, while Arbor Day proposes fo...
JULIUS STERLING MORTON When I walked up on stage at the Emmys, and when people stood up, it was a really sort of emotional,...
STERLING K. BROWN Life has to be everything. It can't be all sad. It can't be all peaches and cream. Because t...
STERLING K. BROWN I always thought that I would just be working in obscurity in perpetuity.
STERLING K. BROWN Different roles call for different aspects or different faces of Sterling to emerge.
STERLING K. BROWN I'm a spiritual person. I do believe in a higher power. I believe God placed me on this planet t...
STERLING K. BROWN It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
GEORGE My grandmother lived to 104 years old, and part of her success was she woke up every morning to a br...
GEORGE TAKEI Every historian discloses a new horizon.
GEORGE SAND The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.
GEORGE SAND Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
GEORGE WASHINGTON First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, y...
GEORGE BURNS The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; ...
GEORGE SANTAYANA Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
GEORGE SANTAYANA History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
GEORGE SANTAYANA A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
GEORGE SANTAYANA When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.
GEORGE SANTAYANA A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
GEORGE SANTAYANA The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradicti...
GEORGE SANTAYANA People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they...
GEORGE CARLIN I was doing a civil rights musical here in Los Angeles, and we sang at one of the rallies where Dr. ...
GEORGE TAKEI 'Mad Men' is nothing more than the fulfillment of every possible stereotype of the early 196...
GEORGE LOIS I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.
GEORGE CARLIN True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, b...
GEORGE WASHINGTON The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and ye...
GEORGE ELIOT