Walt Whitman Quotes

Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

Walt Whitman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LearningGreatYouAgainstOnlyWho

I was 3 and a half, and there was an open call for a Coca-Cola commercial. We were living around Dallas, and my mom took me. I think they were calling for 16-year-olds that could ride horses and swing a rope, and for whatever reason, my mom took me up there when I was 3. But I always had a rope, and I was a little cowboy at that age.

Jesse Plemons

AgeRideMeMomThinkLiving

The impact of low interest rates is broad and deep. Many Americans rely on interest income from their savings to help cover their cost of living.

John Delaney

DeepImpactHelpLivingSavingsLow

I'm a big person when it comes to doing what you believe in.

Andre Ward

BelieveDoingYouPersonBig

I always say that 'Futurama' is real, and 'The Simpsons' is fiction.

Matt Groening

SayRealAlwaysFictionThe Simpsons

I remember when I started performing, I thought, 'Why is this something that we do after hours, underground?' I was waiting on the world to change and the idea of this art to become mainstream, and I think that's what 'RuPaul's Drag Race' has really accomplished in such an eloquent way.

Alyssa Edwards

ChangeArtWaitingWorldThinkWhy

Better not to exist than live basely.

Sophocles

LiveBetterExistThan

Nixon did not anticipate the extent to which Kissinger, whom he barely knew when he appointed him national-security adviser in 1969, would be envious and high-strung - a maintenance project of the first order.

Robert Dallek

MaintenanceFirstProjectHimOrder

The Kennedys are our royals.

Rob Lowe

OurRoyalsKennedys

Books that kids read should be about what is going on in the world.

Michael Morpurgo

WorldGoingBooksKidsReadShould

I'd started working when I was 21 and had been very determined about my career, very focused, even as a little kid, so it was something I had been working at for a long time.

Josh Schwartz

TimeLongCareerLong TimeFocused

Try not to pay attention to those who will try to make life miserable for you. There will be a lot of those - in the official capacity as well as the self-appointed.

Joseph Brodsky

LifeAttentionYouWillTryPay

For a long time, I felt like my identity was to fight. My identity was to be a world champion. That almost defined me.

Dominick Cruz

TimeFightIdentityWorldChampion

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