Carl Sandburg Famous Quotes
Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky -- or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
"History is a living horse laughing at a wooden horse. History is a wind blowing where it listeth. History is no sure thing to bet on. History is a box of tricks with a lost key. History is a labyrinth of doors with sliding panels, a book of ciphers with the code in a cave of the Saragossa sea. History says, if it pleases, Excuse me, I beg your pardon, it will never happen again if I can help it."
"In reply to the question, What was it the last man on earth said Where is everybody"
"Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of al evil, the sum of all blessings."
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Our lives are like a candle in the wind.
A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.
Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.
Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.
One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.
The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
"Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work."
"Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you."
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.
"I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision."
The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on.
"I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way."
I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
Carl Sandburg Quotations
"When delicate and feeling souls are separated, there is not a feature in the sky, not a movement of the elements, not an aspiration of the breeze, but hints some cause for a lover's apprehension."
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure."
Colin
"A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a sheet on his back and mask on his face. They are both more or less what the law declares them lawbreakers, destroyers of constitutional rights and liberties and ultimately destroyers of a free America."
Lyndon B Johnson
"If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation."
Jean Kerr
"I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first ... Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow."
Richard Milhous Nixon
"To produce things and to rear them, To produce, but not to take possession of them, To act, but not to rely on one's own ability, To lead them, but not to master them - This is called profound and secret virtue."
Lao Tzu
Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.
Publilius Syrus
"If you make a habit of sincere prayer, your life will be very noticeably and profoundly altered. Prayer stamps with its indelible mark our actions and demeanor. A tranquility of bearing, a facial and bodily repose, are observed in those whose inner lives are thus enriched. . . . Properly understood, prayer is a mature activity indispensable to the fullest development of personality . . . . Only in prayer do we achieve that complete and harmonious assembly of body, mind and spirit which gives the frail human reed its unshakable strengths."
Alexis Carrel
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
Carl Gustav Jung
"Riches, like glory or heath, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleased to lend them."
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne