Carl Sandburg Quotes

I'm either going to be a writer or a bum.

Carl Sandburg

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

GoingBumWriterEither

For thirty-five years, David Halberstam, an unsilent member of the Silent Generation, has contemplated America and its place in the world, casting his eye on big subjects - Vietnam, global economics, race, mass media, and the 1950s.

John Gregory Dunne

EconomicsWorldEyeGenerationMedia

I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.

John F. Kennedy

KnowledgeAloneTalentThinkHouse

Any objective look at what science has to say about climate change ought to be sufficient to persuade reasonable people that the climate is changing and that humans are responsible for a substantial part of that - and that these changes are doing harm and will continue to do more harm unless we start to reduce our emissions.

John Holdren

ChangeSciencePeopleStartDoing

We are under God's power, and we can do nothing but by the power of God, and woe shall hereafter be to us if we abuse this power.

John Wycliffe

GodPowerNothingAbuseUsWoe

There's no such thing as a partisan base.

Stephanie Herseth

PartisanThingBase

Tennis is interesting because the women are almost more popular than the men. In the U.S. Open, women even get exactly the same money as the men.

Summer Sanders

WomenMoneyMenInterestingTennis

UPS stands as an example of a company that's already doing great things.

Steven Horsford

GreatDoingGreat ThingsCompanyUps

I'm always in favor of Israel responding strongly when it's threatened.

Steven Spielberg

AlwaysIsraelFavorThreatened

In examining the evidence of the Christian religion, it is essential to the discovery of truth that we bring to the investigation a mind freed, as far as possible, from existing prejudice, and open to conviction.

Simon Greenleaf

TruthReligionMindChristianOpen

People who come out of the liberal arts don't have an understanding of science and technology, and the people in science and technology have very little experience with liberal arts and the traditions of a liberal democracy.

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

TechnologyScienceExperiencePeople

I do resent that when you're in the most cool, powerful time of your life, which is your 40s, you're put out to pasture. I think women are so much cooler when they're older. So it's a drag that we're not allowed to age.

Rosanna Arquette

LifeWomenAgeTimeCoolThink

When I started work at Simon & Schuster in 1958, each of us got a bronze paperweight on which was written, in raised type, 'Give the reader a break,' Richard E. Simon.

Michael Korda

WorkBreakStartedGotUsGive

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