Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness; natives give it solidity and continuity; but the settlers give it passion.


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Here's my whole marketing idea: treat people the way you want to be treated.
GARTH BROOKS
You know me, I've got to find some way to get a fresh fire.
GARTH BROOKS
Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.
GARTH BROOKS
Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.
GARTH BROOKS
You aren't wealthy until you have something money can't buy.
GARTH BROOKS
True country music is honesty, sincerity, and real life to the hilt.
GARTH BROOKS
I just love to see people having a good time.
GARTH BROOKS
Truth is mighty and will prevail. [Lat., Magna est veritas et praevalebit.]
THOMAS BROOKS
He said true things, but called them by wrong names.
THOMAS BROOKS
Needy people are like newborns, I have come to realize. One intoxicated night and BAM! You are stuck...
CHASE BROOKS
It just comes from not doing anything and eating my momma's cooking. After my surgery, I was in the ...
AHMAD BROOKS
It means we can play with the big dogs. It's a big confidence boost.
AHMAD BROOKS
It was real tense. We just needed someone to make a play.
AHMAD BROOKS
It was frustrating. It was kind of like last week [against Duke], when I was on the sidelines. You r...
AHMAD BROOKS
I had some pressure [on that play]. I threw my hand in his face. That was all I could do. They weren...
AHMAD BROOKS
It was my first time playing outside linebacker, this weekend, so it's kind of hard to pick up every...
AHMAD BROOKS
The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases...
PHILLIPS BROOKS
Feast of Edward King, Bishop of Lincoln, Teacher, 1910 Commemoration of Martyrs of Uganda, 1886 & 19...
PHILLIPS BROOKS
It is for us, in whom the Christian Church is at this moment partially embodied, to declare that Chr...
PHILLIPS BROOKS
Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893 If man is man a...
PHILLIPS BROOKS
Feast of Oswald, King of Northumbria, Martyr, 642 Slowly, all through the universe, that temple o...
PHILLIPS BROOKS
I do not believe anyone ever yet humbly, genuinely, thoroughly gave himself to Christ without some o...
PHILLIPS BROOKS
Feast of Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865 Only when a man tri...
PHILLIPS BROOKS
Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893 A large acquain...
PHILLIPS BROOKS
Feast of Luke the Evangelist No man dares to condemn the Christian faith today, because the Chris...
PHILLIPS BROOKS
Feast of William Tyndale, Translator of the Scriptures, Martyr, 1536 To hold your truth, to beli...
PHILLIPS BROOKS
Feast of Anselm, Abbot of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1109 I hear men praying eve...
PHILLIPS BROOKS
Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893 Wherever soul...
PHILLIPS BROOKS
Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr O little town of Bethlehem, How still we see thee lie!...
PHILLIPS BROOKS
Feast of Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, Martyr, 258 Commemoration of Ninian, Bishop of Galloway, Apos...
PHILLIPS BROOKS
Feast of English Saints & Martyrs of the Reformation Continuing a series on the person of Jesus: W...
PHILLIPS BROOKS
Beginning a series on the person of Jesus: I read the words and ponder them, but most of all I loo...
PHILLIPS BROOKS
Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Every true prayer has its background and its foreground. The...
PHILLIPS BROOKS
Freedom is thrust upon us, and we must take it whether we will or not. Happiest is he who takes it m...
PHILLIPS BROOKS
Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893 Orthodoxy is, i...
PHILLIPS BROOKS
Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552 What is the Christian? ...
PHILLIPS BROOKS
To say, "well done" to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort...
PHILLIPS BROOKS
Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like...
PHILLIPS BROOKS
Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893 If the true rev...
PHILLIPS BROOKS
The tests that we have done have not substantiated these claims.
ALLAN BROOKS
I try to come every year, to support the fire department. This is a lot better than McDonald's, and ...
ALLAN BROOKS
There are scores of inquisitive people visiting the Archbishop's House to simply have a look at this...
ALLAN BROOKS
They receive them based on their quality systems, which means that they would have shown strict adhe...
ALLAN BROOKS
It is something really bizarre, but one must appreciate the skill of the man who tried this phenomen...
ALLAN BROOKS
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pra...
PHILLIPS BROOKS
To say, well done to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort a...
PHILLIPS BROOKS
We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
At least the box is full of something useful. On his photo gracing a box of Raisin Bran
AVERY BROOKS
The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases...
PHILLIPS BROOKS
Look, I really don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive, you've got to fla...
MEL BROOKS
Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like ...
PHILLIPS BROOKS
I was out in the combat engineers. We would throw up bridges in advance of the infantry but mainly w...
MEL BROOKS
Dreadful will be the day when the world becomes contented, when one great universal satisfaction spr...
PHILLIPS BROOKS
Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is h...
MEL BROOKS
I have always been a huge admirer of my own work. I'm one of the funniest and most entertaining writ...
MEL BROOKS
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.
PHILLIPS BROOKS
Poetry is life distilled.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.
THOMAS BROOKS
I have no objections to churches so long as they do not interfere with God's work.
BROOKS ATKINSON
If I have any talent at all it's from God, and my mom, who was on Capitol Records also.
GARTH BROOKS
The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but t...
BROOKS ATKINSON
I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.
PHILLIPS BROOKS
Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.
BROOKS ATKINSON
A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
PHILLIPS BROOKS
A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
PHILLIPS BROOKS