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Carl Sandburg quotes, quotations, sayings

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
Carl Sandburg
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It is the business of little minds to shrink.
Carl Sandburg
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
Carl Sandburg
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There are dreams stronger than death. Men and women die holding these dreams.
Carl Sandburg
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Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper until you get the right answer.
Carl Sandburg
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Our lives are like a candle in the wind.
Carl Sandburg
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Mark: Hey, did you see Carl wearing Claire's sweatshirt the other day? Julie: They're going out; they can do that. Me: Still, I guess it's a good thing Claire doesn't wear skirts that often...
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If crime fighters fight crime, and fire fighters fight fire, then what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that to us, do they?;"George Carlin
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A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.
Carl Sandburg
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Nothing happens unless first a dream.
Carl Sandburg
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Did you ever notice the people who are most adamantly against abortions are people so ugly you wouldn't want to touch them in the first place?;"George Carlin
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The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on.
Carl Sandburg, Chicago Poems (1916) 'Fog'
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I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.
Carl Sandburg
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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
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Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
Carl Sandburg, New York Times Feb. 13, 1959
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One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.
Carl Sandburg
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Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
Carl Sandburg
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Carl Spackler IT'S IN THE HOLE.
CaddyShack
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The greatest cunning is to have none at all.
Carl Sandburg
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A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
Carl Sandburg
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Hollywood is a sewer with service from the Ritz Carlton.
Wilson Mizner
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I have written some poetry that I don't understand myself.
Carl Sandburg
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Carlie: Dave's asexual. Lisa: That's unfortunate... for you.
Discussing Carlie's crush
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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.
Carl Sandburg
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I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.
Carl Sandburg
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I'm an idealist: I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.
Carl Sandburg
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I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.
Carl Sandburg
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Poetry is the achievement of the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
Carl Sandburg
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Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
Carl Sandburg
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Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.
Carl Sandburg
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Carlyle said, 'A lie cannot live'; it shows he did not know how to tell them.
Mark Twain
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Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the sky.
Carl Sandburg
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Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of al evil, the sum of all blessings.
Carl Sandburg
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In reply to the question, What was it the last man on earth said Where is everybody
Carl Sandburg
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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.
Carl Sandburg
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In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you wake in the morning.
Carl Sandburg
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The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
Carl Sandburg
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Carl would have to be fast to beat the stranger. Real fast. 'Draw,' said the stranger. Carl went for his gun, but then 'Hey, where did all these angels come from'
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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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.
Carl Sandburg
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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.
Carl Sandburg
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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.
Carl Sandburg
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Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Carl Sandburg
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Sandy Carl I want you to kill all the gophers on the golf course Carl Spackler Correct me if I'm wrong Sandy, but if I kill all the golfers they'll lock me up and throw away the key. Sandy Not golfers, you great fool. Gophers. THE LITTLE BROWN, FURRY RODENTS. Carl Spackler We can do that. We don't even need a reason.
CaddyShack
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I couldn't commit suicide if my life depended on it-George Carlin
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Men are afraid to rock the boat in which they hope to drift safely through life's currents, when, actually, the boat is stuck on a sandbar. They would be better off to rock the boat and try to shake it loose, or, better still, jump in the water and swim for the shore.
Thomas Szasz
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Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is analogous to using sandbags and loose timbers to protect a house against flood. Writers are vulnerable creatures like anyone else. For what do they have in reality? Not sandbags, not timbers. Just a flimsy reputation and a name.
Brian Aldiss
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I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.
Carl Sandburg
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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.
Carl Sandburg
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