Carl Sandburg Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• Come clean with a child heart Laugh as peaches in the summer wind Let rain on a house roof be a song Let the writing on your face be a smell of apple orchards on late June.

  Carl Sandburg

  Happiness, Summer, Song

  Carl Sandburg (2015). “Honey and Salt”, p.54, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• There is only one man in the world and his name is All Men. There is only one woman in the world and her name is All Women. There is only one child in the world and the child's name is All Children.

  Carl Sandburg

  Children, Men, Names

  Carl Sandburg (2015). “Honey and Salt”, p.111, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• There is only one child in the world and the Child’s name is All Children.

  Carl Sandburg

  Children, Names, World

  Carl Sandburg (2015). “Honey and Salt”, p.111, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.

  Carl Sandburg

  Art, Children, Pregnancy

• I asked the professors who teach the meaning of life to tell me what is happiness. And I went to famous executives who boss the work of thousands of men. They all shook their heads and gave me a smile as though I was trying to fool with them. And then one Sunday afternoon I wandered out along the Desplaines river and I saw a crowd of Hungarians under the trees with their women and children and a keg of beer and an accordion.

  Carl Sandburg

  Children, Beer, Sunday

  Carl Sandburg, (2013). “Chicago Poems”, p.27, Read Books Ltd

• A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

  Carl Sandburg

  God, Baby, Children

  Remembrance Rock ch. 2 (1948)

• Never will a time come when the most marvelous recent invention is as marvelous as a newborn child.

  Carl Sandburg

  Inspirational, Baby, Children

  Carl Sandburg (1948). “Remembrance Rock”

• The simple dignity of a child drinking a bowl of milk embodies the fascination of an ancient rite.

  Carl Sandburg

  Children, Drinking, Simple

  Quoted in Personalia, the Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg (1970).

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