Our lives are like a candle in the wind.
Carl Sandburg Quotations
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In reply to the question, What was it the last man on earth said Where is everybody
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.
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.
I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.
The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.
When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
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.
There are dreams stronger than death. Men and women die holding these dreams.
Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper until you get the right answer.
Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of al evil, the sum of all blessings.
The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.
Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.