Governor Jerry Brown

Famous quotes containing the words governor, jerry and/or brown:

    “Three years ago, also, when the Sims tragedy was acted, I said to myself, There is such an officer, if not such a man, as the Governor of Massachusetts,—what has he been about the last fortnight? Has he had as much as he could do to keep on the fence during this moral earthquake?... He could at least have resigned himself into fame.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Who talks of Plato’s spindle;
    What set it whirling round?
    Eternity may dwindle,
    Time is unwound,
    Dan and Jerry Lout
    Change their loves about.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “She does not know
    Her beauty,
    She thinks her brown body
    Has no glory.”
    —Waring Cuney (1906–1976)