I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.
Quote by Carl Sandburg
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I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.
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Carl Sandburg Quotes
- The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
- Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
- The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on.
- 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.
- Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper until you get the right answer.
- 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.
- 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.
- Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.
Best Quotes
- Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.
- All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.
- When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
- I think I'm a bit less inhibited, and not thinking too much before speaking. It's not about being shameful, I'm just a bit more unabashedly myself because of this thing, and it probably started at age 15. I can be around people and say what I think without fear.
- I want to light the lights of patriotism.
- Newt Gingrich has a restless and outsized intelligence that is tragically unleavened by any kind of critical sensibility.
- Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them.
- I believe that we must maintain pride in the knowledge that the actions we take, based on our own decisions and choices as individuals, link directly to the magnificent challenge of transforming human history.
- Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
- Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.