Walt Whitman Quotes

A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he.

Walt Whitman

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• A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Never
  • Own
  • Errors

• The interest on our debt is going to collapse this country.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Country
  • Interest
  • Debt

• 'Srimanthudu' was very important for me and my career at that time, so I was tensed. But for 'Brahmotsavam,' honestly speaking, I am more excited because of its content. I have attempted something new, and I am keen to see how the audience receives it.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Time
  • Important
  • Career

• I hate to lose. It's a bad feeling, but, I mean, it kind of gets you resettled, gets you back right.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Bad
  • Feeling
  • Hate

• 'Fargo' is one of my favorite movies.

  

  Tate Donovan
  • Movies
  • Favorite
  • Fargo

• I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Money

• One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Courage
  • Pessimism

• If you hate the Jewish people, you are not reflecting the teachings of Christ.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • You
  • Hate

• I adore Quentin Tarantino. The 'Kill Bill' series is my favorite.

  

  Madison Davenport
  • Favorite
  • Series
  • Adore

• I don't move away from grief, rather through it.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Grief
  • Move
  • Rather

• Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.

  

  Queen Christina
  • More
  • Fools
  • Wicked

• Broad tolerance in the matter of beliefs is necessarily a part of the new ethics.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Tolerance
  • Ethics
  • Beliefs

• Growing up, I was not used to good things happening to me.

  

  Quinton Aaron
  • Good
  • Growing
  • Me

• I'm not performing anymore. I reveal myself to the audience. I reveal myself. That's the show now.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Myself
  • Audience
  • Now

• I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Energy
  • Gift
  • Creator

• I do have, like, a regular childhood. I mean, I'm treated the same.

  

  Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson
  • Like
  • Childhood
  • Same

• We want an Afghanistan that is shaped by the dreams of the great Afghan people, not by irrational fears and overreaching ambitions of others.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • People
  • Great
  • Dreams

• I started going to acting school in my senior year in high school, and I remained in acting school through four years of college.

  

  Dane DeHaan
  • School
  • High
  • College

• It's probably an intellectual weakness, but I look at the stars, and I say, 'There's something bigger than us out there.'

  

  Dan Brown
  • Look
  • Stars
  • Intellectual

• If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society, then Mythology has no claim to the appellation.

  

  Thomas Bulfinch
  • Deserve
  • Possession
  • Claims

• I am not suicidal. Occasionally, like all of us, I get depressed and it was over a year ago and I had a little mini attack, well a big one ... I don't know quite why it happened but I find medication is not the answer to this.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Why
  • Answer
  • Attack

• When we call on God, he bends down His ear to listen, as a father bends down to listen to his little child.

  

  Elizabeth Charles
  • God
  • Child
  • Call On

• Venezuela, given its extraordinary educational, cultural, and social developments, and its vast energy and natural resources, is called on to become a revolutionary model for the world.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • World
  • Energy
  • Model

• A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Child
  • Hands
  • Answer