29 Quotes About Brown to Ground Your Energies (2024) • Colors Explained

Looking for quotes about brown? You’re in luck—these inspiring brown quotes will help you ground your energies.

Creamy chocolate, tall trees, cute bears, and fresh coffee, brown things are everywhere in nature and our homes. Not only warm and inviting but also a neutral color, brown is one of the most underrated colors.

While many people turn their noses when they see a brown outfit, we’re here today to praise this lovely, grounding color.

In today’s article, we put together a number of funny and beautiful quotes about brown. Let’s get to them!

Quotes About Brown

“We love the sight of the brown and ruddy earth; it is the color of life, while a snow-covered plain is the face of death.” John Burroughs

“Your eyes will be brown, a color that holds secrets well.” Dawn Kurtagich

“I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colors. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.” Winston Spencer Churchill

“The color brown, I realized, is anything but nondescript. It comes in as many hues as there are colors of earth, which is commonly presumed infinite.” Barbara Kingsolver

“His eyes were exactly the color of that gleaming golden-brown moss you see on stones under the clear water of running brooks.” Eleanor Cameron

“God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.” Anne Sexton

“I love a big rectangular piece of brown furniture on a hardwood floor.” Emily Procter

“Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance, and none can say why some fields will blossom while others lay brown beneath the August sun.” Kent Nerburn

“A baton of light across the bracken redeemed the reputation of the color brown with fiery reds and yellows.” Ian McEwan

“Brown is a manly color.” Cassandra Clare

Brown Quotes

“Skipping and a jumping / In the misty morning fog with / Our hearts a thumpin’ and you / My brown-eyed girl / You, my brown-eyed girl.” Van Morrison

“Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth – well, it’s like brown – it’s not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.” Iris Murdoch

“Did you ever get the feeling that the world was a tuxedo and you were a pair of brown shoes?” George Gobel

“I told my dentist my teeth are going yellow. He told me to wear a brown tie.” Rodney Dangerfield

“Frequently the wood are pink / Frequently are brown / Frequently the hills undress / Behind my native town.” Emily Dickinson

“I see music in colors. I love music that’s black, pink, purple, or red – but I hate music that’s green, yellow, or brown.” Charli XCX

“Oh, come on! Nobody’s favorite color is brown!” Lee Blessing

“‘I am a man,’ he told her, ‘and men do not consume pink beverages. Get thee gone woman, and bring me something brown.’” Cassandra Clare

“The only color I don’t have is navy brown.” Yogi Berra

Color Brown Quotes

“The goldenrod is yellow / The corn is turning brown / The trees in apple orchards / With fruit are bending down.” Helen Hunt Jackson

“Yellow looks good with a brown suit, but then, a brown suit never looks good.” Roger Stone

“A slant of sun on dull brown walls / A forgotten sky of bashful blue.” Stephen Crane

“Black women were created of brown sugar and warm honey. The sweetest thing to bless the earth. Be wary of anyone who tells you otherwise.” Alexandra Elle

“Someone once threw me a small, brown, hairy kiwi fruit, and I threw a wastebasket over it until it was dead.” Erma Bombeck

“My skin is kind of sort of brownish pinkish yellowish white. My eyes are greyish blueish green, but I’m told they look orange in the night. My hair is reddish blondish brown, but it’s silver when it’s wet, and all the colors I am inside have not been invented yet.” Shel Silverstein

“Her light brown eyes were the color of sherry, fringed with long, thick, gold-tipped lashes.” Anne Rivers Siddons

“I threw a penny / To find out if I might love / ‘Go and love, go and love, young man, If the lady be young and fair.’ / Ah, penny, brown penny, brown penny / I am looped in the loops of her hair.” William Butler Yeats

“Blue and green eyes will be so common that dark brown will become the rare and newly desired eye color.” Tyra Banks

“[Brown]—the color of a mole, of leaves becoming earth.” Frida Kahlo

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