| 33 Famous Quotes by Carl Sandburg
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“The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.”
Admiration Quotes |
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“A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, and the future worth living for”
Babies Quotes |
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“I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.”
Grammar Quotes |
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“Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.”
Joy Quotes |
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“Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands, and goes to work”
Slang Quotes |
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“I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on the way.”
Knowledge Quotes |
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“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.”
Courage Quotes |
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“I never made a mistake in grammar but once in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.”
Grammar Quotes |
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“A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.”
Baby Quotes |
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“Nothing happens unless first a dream.”
Dream Quotes |
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“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. -Carl Sandburg.”
Life Quotes |
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“A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.”
Life Quotes |
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“And how should a beautiful, ignorant stream of water know it heads for an early release - out across the desert, running toward the Gulf, below sea level, to murmur its lullaby, and see the Imperial Valley rise out of burning sand with cotton blossoms, wheat, watermelons, roses, how should it know?”
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“In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes in the morning.”
Optimism Quotes |
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“I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.”
Past Quotes |
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“Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air.”
Poetry Quotes |
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“Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess what is seen during a moment.”
Poetry Quotes |
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“Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.”
Poetry Quotes |
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“Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.”
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“I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.”
Poetry Quotes |
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“I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth and never cherishes any memory except the face of the woman on the American silver dollar.”
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“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.”
Time Quotes |
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“Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.”
War Quotes |
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“Men of ideas vanish first when freedom vanishes.”
Miscellaneous Quotes |
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“Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.”
Miscellaneous Quotes |
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Carl Sandburg Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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