Alive Quote by Carl Sandburg

“Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning.”

— Carl Sandburg

The press frequently sneers at the hype devoted to a superstar, but the press itself is responsible for all the hype.

— Beverly Sills

She is not old, she is not young, The Woman with the Serpent's Tongue. The haggard cheek, the hungering eye, The poisoned words that…

— William Watson

I, with other Americans, have perhaps unduly resented the stream of criticism of American life... more particularly have I resented the sneers at Main…

— Herbert Hoover

My general theory since 1971 has been that the word is literally a virus, and that it has not been recognized as such because…

— William S. Burroughs

It is the custom to sneer at the modern apartment-house, television, big-city Christmas, with its commercial taint . . . office parties, artificial .…

— Paul Gallico

I have often thought how strange it is that men can at once and the same moment cheerfully consign our sex to lives either…

— Frances Power Cobbe

Pastor Veronica told the story of a sparrow lying in the street with its legs straight up in the air, straining. a warhorse walks…

— Anne Lamott

I mean, you're right about the fire and war, all that. But that Rapture stuff--well, if you could see them all in Heaven--serried ranks…

— Terry Pratchett

the pyramids were built for pharaohs on the happy theory that they could take their stuff with them. Versailles was built for kings on…

— Molly Ivins

As anyone who has the slightest knowledge of my work knows, I have little in common with Larkin, who was tall, taciturn and thin-on-top,…

— Carol Ann Duffy

My sister stood up, trembling, and I must admit that I expected her familiar sneer to have taken its usual place on her face.…

— J. Robert Lennon