Colossal Quote by Carl Sandburg Download Open image “We live in the time of the colossal upright oblong.” — Carl Sandburg ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Colossal Colossal Upright Oblong Time Time Colossal Upright Upright Oblong
Each of us lives only now, this brief instant. The rest been lived already, or is impossible to see. The span we live is… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Homo erectus, ‘Upright Man’, who survived there for close to 2 million years, making it the most durable human species ever. This record is… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
The longest time that man may live, The lapse of generations of his race, The continent entire of time itself, Bears not proportion to… — James Sheridan Knowles Copy Share Image
For while directly we say that it [the length of human life] is ages long, we are reminded that it is briefer than the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
We are ancients of the earth, And in the morning of the times. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
We can't do much about the length of our lives, but we can do plenty about it's width and depth. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
Every creature alive on the earth today represents an unbroken line of life that stretches back to the first primitive organism to appear on… — George Wald Copy Share Image
I am afforded a bit of easy wonderment in relative comfort as to how humans have lasted so long. Climate- and geography-wise, the planet… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
We are just a blip. I found it very interesting when Clive [Oppenheimer] interviewed the Ethiopian scientists and asked them, "Do we have another… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Our time on Earth is short, but life is the longest thing we ever know — Olivia Wandres Copy Share Image
Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Gather the stars if you wish it so Gather the songs and keep them. Gather the faces of women. Gather for keeping years and… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Somebody's little girl- how easy it is to make a sob story over who she once was and who she now is. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Let your heart look on white sea spray and be lonely. Love is a fool star. You and a ring of stars may mention… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Two bubbles found they had rainbows on their curves. They flickered out saying: "It was worth being a bubble, just to have held that… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Poetry is a series of explanations of life, fading off into horizons too swift for explanations. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
There are ten men in me and I do not know or understand one of them. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
“Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
a women is like a tea bag.it's only when she is in hot water that you realize how strong she is. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
We are at the moment looking at space as something to be entered by the tremendous thrust of a rocket because that is the… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
'Loving Frank' is about a forbidden love affair between two people who lived a hundred years ago - Frank Lloyd Wright and his married… — Nancy Horan Copy Share Image
Character is the colossal hope of human improvement within and without. — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
I started to draw buildings. I called them Proposed Colossal Monuments - they weren't for real, not for actual building. It was more a… — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
The pope [Francis] takes his vocabulary from his pastoral experience, not from the rhetorical tool kit of liberation theology, with its Marxist yammering about… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
The more we heat up the planet, the more it costs all of us, not just in money, but in colossal famines, displacements, deaths,… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Whatever else it was, Adolf Hitler's short-lived regime was also a colossal industrial process by which the wealth and productive power of much of… — James Buchan Copy Share Image