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Carl Sandburg Quotes

Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: January 6, 1878 - July 22, 1967

Topics

Life Love Time You Sometimes Onion

My parents started with very little and were the only ones in their families to graduate from college. As parents, they focused on education, but did not stop at academics - they made sure that we knew music, saw art and theatre and traveled - even though it meant budgeting like crazy.

Jennifer Garner

Education Music Art Parents College

If sleep does not provide a remarkable set of benefits, then it's the biggest mistake the evolutionary process has ever made.

Sleep Mistake Process Benefits Made

If a film is being made by an intelligent director, they're going to cast the right guy.

Intelligent Right Director Guy Going

I believe that no man who holds a leader's position should ever accept favors from either side. He is then committed to show favors. A leader must stand alone.

Mary Harris Jones

Leader Alone Man Believe Stand Side

Why did I not stop to have children? I suppose because the opportunity didn't present itself. Yes, many women feel they are not complete without having children, but I have different creative outlets.

Miranda Richardson

Women Opportunity Children Creative

I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.

Men True Check Fail Willing Rather

I made shorts films, learning the dos and don'ts. Most importantly, I've been editing all these short films. Nothing can teach you filmmaking like editing can.

Learning Short You Filmmaking Teach

You can never become rich unless you like rich people.

Douglas Coupland

People Rich You Become Never Like

What is character? It is that quality of man which is going to make a man, in an hour of strain, do the just and, if possible, the generous thing.

Douglas Southall Freeman

Character Quality Man Possible Going

Uh, I do not wear a wig in 'Star Trek' like I did in 'Bottle Shock,' thank God. 'Bottle Shock' will be the last wig movie I ever do.

God Thank God Will Wig Wear Star

I never get the girl. I wind up with a country instead.

Girl Wind Country Never Up Get

Government has not been good about being good stewards of policy.

Good Government Policy Being Been

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