QUOTES OF THE DAY 1-29-13

“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.”
― Carl Sandburg


“A baby is God’s opinion that the world should go on.”
― Carl Sandburg

“Life is like an onion; you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.”
― Carl Sandburg

“Sometime they’ll give a war and nobody will come.”
― Carl Sandburg
“Shakespeare, Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin and Abraham Lincoln never saw a movie, heard a radio or looked at television. They had ‘Loneliness’ and knew what to do with it. They were not afraid of being lonely because they knew that was when the creative mood in them would work.”
― Carl Sandburg
“In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning”
― Carl Sandburg

“We can never possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.”
― Carl Sandburg
“Our lives are like a candle in the wind.”
― Carl Sandburg
“I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision”
― Carl Sandburg