The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on.
Quote by Carl Sandburg
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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.
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Carl Sandburg Quotes
- The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
- 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.
- 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.
- Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper until you get the right answer.
- In reply to the question, What was it the last man on earth said Where is everybody
- 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.
- The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on.
- 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.
Best Quotes
- When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
- I wanted to do another movie that could make us laugh and cry and feel good about the world. I wanted to do something else that could make us smile. This is a time when we need to smile more and Hollywood movies are supposed to do that for people in difficult times.
- A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success.
- In America, now, let us - Christian, Jew, Muslim, agnostic, atheist, wiccan, whatever - fight nativism with the same strength and conviction that we fight terrorism. My faith calls on its followers to love one's enemies. A tall order, that - perhaps the tallest of all.
- When art wins, everyone wins.
- We need religion as a guide. We need it because we are imperfect. Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they are sinners can bring to democracy the tolerance it requires in order to survive.
- May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.
- It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.
- If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.
- My inspiration was my mom. She's a great cook, and she still cooks, and we still banter back and forth about cooking. Growing up in a mostly Portuguese community, food was important and the family table was extremely important. At a very young age I understood that.