#lou

I needed to explain that Louisiana's coast accepts the drainage from two-thirds of the United States and, while the necessary levees constructed upstream have prevented floods, they have also contributed to problems downstream. ↗

— John Breaux

#also #coast #constructed #contributed #downstream

Were I a cloud I'd gather My skirts up in the air, And fly well know whither, And rest I well know where. ↗

— Robert Bridges

#cloud #fly #gather #i #know

The surest route to breeding jealousy is to compare. Since jealousy comes from feeling less than another, comparisons only fan the fires. ↗

— Dorothy Corkville Briggs

#breeding #comes #compare #comparisons #fan

When I see a colour or hear a sound, I am aware of something, and not of nothing. ↗

— Charles D. Broad

#aware #colour #hear #i #i am

Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind. ↗

— Jacob Bronowski

#because #does #equally #expressions #his

Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years. ↗

— Charlotte Bronte

#age #callous #comparatively #earlier #easily

Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere. ↗

— Van Wyck Brooks

#everywhere #feed #find #magnanimous #more

Perhaps most ridiculous of all is the suggestion that we 'keep' our radioactive garbage for the use of our descendants. This 'solution', I think, requires an immediate poll of the next 20,000 generations. ↗

— David R. Brower

#garbage #generations #i #i think #immediate

I'm going from doing all of the work to having to delegate the work - which is almost harder for me than doing the work myself. I'm a lousy delegator, but I'm learning. ↗

— Alton Brown

#delegate #doing #going #harder #having

People still come up to me and ask whether I am Louise Brown or if they've seen me somewhere else before. ↗

— Louise Brown

#ask #before #brown #come #else