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Carl Sandburg Quotes

I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of painters, sculptors, poets, wearing this style of tie.

Carl Sandburg

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Style Black Long Pictures Tie Seen

As a little girl in Arizona, none of the women in my family had a cultural connection with Girl Scouts, but the opportunity resonated with my mother as a platform that would allow me to excel in school.

Anna Maria Chavez

Family Mother Women Girl Opportunity

I'm in control of what I'm doing physically and mentally. I feel good. I've always felt confident and comfortable going into seasons, but each year I feel like I'm getting better and better.

Matt Flynn

Good Control Feel Good Better Year

Everything I do, I hope, is that I represent something, and I represent the right things to my children and give them the right sense of what they're capable of and the world as it should be seen.

Angelina Jolie

Hope Children World Right Everything

We can still find middle ground, truly secure our borders, deal with those already here and address our labor needs. But those who advocate giving current illegal aliens and future guest workers a special path to citizenship must compromise.

John Shadegg

Future Path Compromise Giving Find

The next time you need to win someone over to your way of thinking, try nodding your head as you speak. People unconsciously mirror the body language of those around them in order to better understand what other people are feeling.

Travis Bradberry

Time Mirror People Win Speak Better

The sage belongs to the same obsolete repertory as the virtuous maiden and the enlightened monarch.

Mason Cooley

Same Sage Enlightened Virtuous

To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.

Miguel de Unamuno

Habit Fall Begin Cease

I had really great art classes. Really great art teachers. Arts played a very important role in having a place to express yourself uniquely.

Dianne Reeves

Great Art Yourself Place Important

You can't eat fish. It's 6,000 parts DDT per million all over the world, not counting radiation.

Dick Dale

World Fish You Over Eat Counting

My sister could fall asleep at the drop of a hat. She would fall asleep on the train. Me, I never slept. Still. I have a hard time sleeping. But I used to admire her ability to wake up late.

Cheri Oteri

Time Hat Me Sister Wake Up Fall

One bit of advice someone gave me - which I haven't yet tried - is that if you go to an area where you might pick up a tummy bug, you should seek out the local probiotic yogurt. Eating it will introduce you to the local gut flora, apparently.

Anthony Head

Me Eating Advice Someone You Go

If you write a novel where war is nothing but hell and no one experiences excitement or cracks a dark joke, then you're not actually admitting the full experience.

Phil Klay

Experience War Hell You Dark Write