Walt Whitman Quotes

The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.

Walt Whitman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 31, 1819 - March 26, 1892

Topics

BestPeopleGeniusAlwaysCommon

I've always thought you have to live life looking forwards, not backwards. I've had no interest at all in who my ancestors are.

Jeremy Paxman

LifeLiveLive LifeLookingThought

A well chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for prevention as cure.

Robert Graves

MedicinePreventionMoreMentalMay

It couldn't interest me less, the idea of putting a living room on stage. I just think, what's the point of walking into a theater to see a living room? A sofa in a forest? Now you're talking.

John Tiffany

MeThinkWalkingForestTalkingYou

I actually do like playing off-beat people. I think it's more fun.

John Travolta

FunPeopleThinkMorePlayingLike

Life is about learning; when you stop learning, you die.

Tom Clancy

LifeLearningDieYouStopAbout

I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older until I drop dead of beauty.

Rufus Wainwright

BeautyPeopleBetterLookWillDead

As an artist, sometimes you'd rather not do the interview. You might feel the interviewer isn't educated on you... or what you're about.

Ali Shaheed Muhammad

FeelYouArtistSometimesEducated

Whenever you face a man who's playing your instrument, there's a competition.

Wynton Marsalis

ManCompetitionFaceYouPlaying

Many of my projects are inspired by Indian mythology. We have read that in the ancient times, people could expand their body parts, extend arms - all of that reads like a dream. But all this can be done using technology based on simple solutions.

Pranav Mistry

TechnologySimplePeopleBodyDream

You can't say whatever you want on network television.

Pete Davidson

YouTelevisionSayWantWhatever

The absence of doll babies in my toy chest didn't seriously influence my later decision not to become a mother; rather, I disdained Hasbro's Baby Alive wetting doll because I was already the kind of girl who would grow up to be childless by choice.

Lionel Shriver

MotherGirlDecisionBabyInfluence

She was my first love, and I loved her as only a boy loves.

James Weldon Johnson

LoveLovedBoySheFirstFirst Love

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