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 he buys everything he can is because of some crazy hope that one of the things he buys will be life everlasting.

Burl Ives

Categorized in : Death Animal Crazy

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 long gray line with a black mark down the center. The birds were singing. It was spring.

spring wind long

I think my life has been a long, slow process of trying to move closer and closer to the spirit by moving closer and closer to the heart. The heart is what's important.

heart moving thinking

When you've set goals and dreams, you don't feel old. by Burl Ives

When you've set goals and dreams, you don't feel old.

goal dream feels

Have a holly jolly Christmas! by Burl Ives

Have a holly jolly Christmas!

jolly hollies christmas

To be a man requires that you accept everything life has to give... by Burl Ives

To be a man requires that you accept everything life has to give you, beginning with your name.

names giving men

I'm a law-abiding man. That is, if there's any law to abide by. by Burl Ives

I'm a law-abiding man. That is, if there's any law to abide by.

abiding law men

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 door, slammed it closed with a bang, and broken glass crashed to the floor. There was uproar behind me in the class, which did not interest me at all.

class teacher men

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 the open highway headed east.

walking-away clothes easter

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 hecklers and figures there was some Big Daddy in me, just lyin' dormant. And out it came. People still do call me Big Daddy, but to me, inside, I'm no Big Daddy at all.

daddy couple night

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 and Benjamin Franklin had walked.

bells franklin liberty