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
- 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.
- There are dreams stronger than death. Men and women die holding these dreams.
- The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
- The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on.
- Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.
- Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper until you get the right answer.
- Nothing happens unless first a dream.
- Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of al evil, the sum of all blessings.
- I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.
- Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
Best Quotes
- He prayeth best who loveth best All things both great and small For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.
- Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.
- In any crass political calculation, drilling for oil will always win more votes than putting a price on carbon. But if I recall what I was taught in fifth-grade American government class, we elect presidents to do more than crass political calculations.
- If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
- Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
- It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.
- Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.
- I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.
- My friends say, 'Man you're going to have kids sleeping on pillowcases with your face on it! You're going to be on toothbrushes and magnets and stuff.' I guess now that I'm a dad, I'm thrilled about that.
- I've always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do.