Burl Ives Quotes
- The human animal is a beast that eventually has to die. If he's got money, he buys and he buys and he buys. The reason…
- To be a man requires that you accept everything life has to give you, beginning with your name.
- The cool wind blew in my face and all at once I felt as if I had shed dullness from myself. Before me lay a…
- Have a holly jolly Christmas!
- I stopped and gazed on the little dull man who was being paid to be a teacher of teachers. I turned and walked to the…
- I got into a brawl one night in a saloon in Greenwich Village. Elia Kazan, a great director, saw me put out a couple of…
- When you've set goals and dreams, you don't feel old.
- I'm a law-abiding man. That is, if there's any law to abide by.
- How I longed to see these things; how I longed to see the Liberty Bell and walk on the streets where Thomas Jefferson, Tom Paine…
- I went to my room and packed a change of clothes, got my banjo, and started walking down the road. Soon I found myself on…