Shel Silverstein Quotes

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• Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.
• 'I don't need very much now,' said the boy, 'just a quiet place to sit and rest. I am very tired.' 'Well,' said the tree,…
• If you're a bird, be an early bird. But if you're a worm, sleep late.
• How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em.
• I would hope that people, no matter what age, would find something to identify with in my books, pick one up and experience a personal…
• Thanksgiving dinner's sad and thankless. Christmas dinner's dark and blue. When you stop and try to see it From the turkey's point of view.
• G'bye, I'm going out to play!
• God says to me with a kind of smile, "Hey how would you like to be God awhile And steer the world?" . . .…
• Don't be dependent on anyone else. I want to go everywhere, look at, and listen to everything. You can go crazy with some of the…
• Beware of being the roller / When there's nothing left to roll
• Did you hear 'bout Ticklish Tom? He got tickled by his mom. Wiggled and giggled and fell on the floor, . . . . And…
• I can be someone's and still be my own.
• I was always prepared for success but that means that I have to be prepared for failure, too.
• This bridge will take you halfway there - the last few steps you will have to take yourself.
• I tried on the farmer's hat, Didn't fit. . . A little too small - just a bit Too floppy. . . . . I…
• What did the carrot say to the wheat? Lettuce rest, I'm feeling beet.
• To me, freedom entitles you to do something, not to not do something.
• I will not play at tug o' war, I'd rather play at hug o' war
• I made an airplane out of stone. . . I always did like staying home.
• I was so lucky that I didn't have anyone to copy, be impressed by. I had developed my own style, I was creating before I…

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