Walt Whitman Quotes

The mother condemned for a witch and burnt with dry wood, and her children gazing on; The hounded slave that flags in the race and leans by the fence, blowing and covered with sweat, The twinges that sting like needles his legs and neck, The murderous buckshot and the bullets, All these I feel or am.

Walt Whitman

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• Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Use
  • Intelligence
  • Guidance

• Most actors, if you ask them if they play guitar, they'll say they played guitar for 20 years, but what they really mean is they've owned a guitar for 20 years.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Play
  • Mean
  • Guitar

• I've never been a partier.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Never
  • Been

• Fashion is very tough, and we shouldn't forget that before designers were money-makers, they were artists.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Money
  • Fashion
  • Forget

• When I go a stretch without tweeting, I will occasionally get an email from my mom, checking in. I always find this amusing but also gratifying: Thanks to Twitter, I can keep in touch with my parents and let them in on what I'm doing in a way that even the regular phone calls of a doting daughter can't do.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Parents
  • Mom
  • Daughter

• It was inevitable at some point that I would bump into one of my father's plays. The reality of the situation is that I'm a jobbing actor, and any actor would give their eye-teeth to have one of those roles. It's a no-brainer! I'm pleased the stars have aligned around 'Arcadia.'

  

  Ed Stoppard
  • Father
  • Reality
  • Stars

• Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life.

  

  Wendi McLendon-Covey
  • Life
  • Good
  • Yourself

• If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.

  

  Daniel Ellsberg
  • See
  • Wait
  • Monarchy

• To make money, I did portraits . The truth is so bizarre! I'm kind of embarrassed. I was like a 19th-century pirate painter. I'd say, 'Your mom would love a painting of you!' A salesman! I'd hawk paintings.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Money
  • Truth
  • Mom

• For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Mother
  • Feeling
  • Stories

• In the 19th century, a lot of people were against outlawing child labour, because to do so would be against the very foundations of a free market economy: 'These children want to work, these people want to employ them... what is your problem? It's not as if anyone has kidnapped them...'

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • People
  • Work
  • Children

• You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Time
  • Want
  • Clock

• The existing U.N. can be found in the writings of early Communist leaders.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Found
  • Early
  • Communist

• There's obviously a group who enjoys what Tyler Perry is putting out there. And why fault them? And there's a group that loves the things that Spike does. So they should enjoy that, too. Is it my taste? Maybe not, but I'm not going to fault anybody for doing what they're doing as long as people are showing up.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • Up
  • Long

• You always have something to learn from people who have been through more than you. Be open and receptive to what they know.

  

  Zac Efron
  • People
  • Know
  • Learn

• If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Time
  • Children
  • Home

• Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • Society
  • Fear
  • Change

• Actually the action called a kiss represented nothing more for me than some place where my spirit could seek shelter.

  

  Yukio Mishima
  • Action
  • Kiss

• Lucifer in the flesh, I have Democrat friends and Republican friends. I get along with almost everyone, but I have never worked with a more miserable son of a bitch in my life.

  

  John Boehner
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Son

• A defendant who commences and continues to build a project, while a lawsuit is pending which challenges the legality of such a project, continues at the risk of abatement.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Risk
  • Challenges
  • Project

• Only you must have worthy foes hate, but not enemies worthy of contempt. You must be proud of your enemy.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Hate
  • Proud
  • Enemies

• Environmental injustice is a tangible, intolerable example of an exhibited moral laxity and minimal concern for healthy standards by corporations and political structures based on the race, ethnicity, and class of those being impacted.

  

  Bernice King
  • Political
  • Moral

• Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Knows
  • Ignorance
  • Empathy

• The mother condemned for a witch and burnt with dry wood, and her children gazing on; The hounded slave that flags in the race and leans by the fence, blowing and covered with sweat, The twinges that sting like needles his legs and neck, The murderous buckshot and the bullets, All these I feel or am.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Slave