425 Quotes by Carl Sandburg

The impact of television on our culture is just indescribable.

A liar goes in fine clothes, a liar goes in rags, a liar is a liar, clothes or no clothes.

The marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading "Keep Off.

To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damned hard.

Faith is indispensable, and the world at times does not seem to have quite enough of it. It can and has accomplished what seems to be the impossible. Wars have been started and men and nations lost for the lack of it. Faith starts from the individual and builds men and nations. America was built by and on the faith of our ancestors.

There are 10 men in me and I do not know or understand one of them.

The dead hold in their hands only what they have given away.

And how should a beautiful, ignorant stream of water know it heads for an early release — out across the desert, running toward the Gulf, below sea level, to murmur its lullaby, and see the Imperial Valley rise out of burning sand with cotton blossoms, wheat, watermelons, roses, how should it know?

The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over the harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on.