Thomas Wentworth Higginson Quotes

It is no discredit to Walt Whitman that he wrote Leaves of Grass, only that he did not burn it afterwards.

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

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• I love the smell of freshly cut grass. It takes me back to summers in Maine.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Smell
  • Grass
  • Summers

• Mangroves, salt marshes and sea grass lock away carbon at up to five times the rate of tropical forests.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Up
  • Sea
  • Grass

• I'm a millionaire, but I cut the grass. And each time I cut it, it's my grass. And that is satisfying.

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Time
  • Cutting
  • Grass

• I didn’t even know I could write music, but somehow Walt did. He tapped my hidden talents.

  

  Xavier Atencio
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Talent

• Anyone who watches golf on television would enjoy watching the grass grow on the greens.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Funny
  • Enjoy
  • Golf

• In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial grass.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Firsts
  • Bird
  • Century

• I have seen lightning light fires in the long grass ahead of me as I have ridden. No wonder the Aborigines tremble when the sky rumbles!

  

  R. M. Williams
  • Light
  • Grass
  • Fires

• Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Matter
  • Grass
  • Columnists

• Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Grass
  • Blade
  • Duplicates

• Between the wolf in the tall grass and the wolf in the tall story there is a shimmering go-between. That go-between, that prism, is the art of literature.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Writing
  • Art
  • Literature

• I let go of all desire for the common good, and the good becomes as common as the grass.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Desire
  • Common
  • Grass

• The wall is silence, the grass is sleep, Tall trees of peace their vigil keep, And the Fairy of Dreams with moth-wings furled. Plays soft on her flute to the drowsy world.

  

  Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
  • Sleep
  • Silence
  • Grass

• O Earth, O Earth, return! Arise from out the dewy grass; Night is worn; And the morn Rises from the slumbrous mass.

  

  William Blake
  • Earth
  • Grass
  • Rises

• No one thinks of winter when the grass is green.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Winter
  • Thinks
  • Grass

• The mind that thought of light, heavy, grey, yellow, still, swift, also conceived of magic that would make heavy things light and able to fly, turn grey lead into yellow gold, and the still rock into a swift water. If it could do the one, it could do the other; it inevitably did both. When we can take green from grass, blue from heaven, and red from blood, we have already an enchanter's power.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Power
  • Magic
  • Lead

• The power that makes grass grow, fruit ripen, and guides the bird in flight is in us all.

  

  Anzia Yezierska
  • Bird
  • Fruit
  • Flight

• Walt loved technology. He didn't understand it half the time, but the beauty of good technology was that he didn't have to understand it. Just use it.

  

  Ridley Pearson
  • Technology
  • Use
  • Half

• When I began to talk publicly about the hatred that was in the Talmud, I was branded a hater, a bigot, and an anti-Semite by the media and by groups like the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith. The ADL is a multimillion-dollar, worldwide organization whose whole purpose is to defame and discredit those who simply tell the truth about Jewish supremacism and hatred against Gentiles.

  

  David Duke
  • Purpose
  • Hatred
  • League

• Ball is made of leather, leather comes from cows, cows eat grass, and there is where the ball must be.

  

  Alfredo Di Stefano
  • Ball
  • Grass
  • Cows

• I would disagree that America is any more racist or ridiculous than anywhere else.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • America
  • More
  • Ridiculous

• I am a strong woman with or without this other person, with or without this job, and with or without these tight pants.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Job
  • Strong
  • Woman

• I don't read for plot, a story 'about' this or that. There must be some kind of philosophical depth rendered into the language, something happening.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Kind
  • Language
  • Story

• By unwillingly robbing post-conflict nations of their most talented people, we in Europe are improving the odds these states fail, and feed the vicious circle of future conflicts.

  

  Miroslav Lajcak
  • People
  • Nations
  • Talented

• It is no discredit to Walt Whitman that he wrote Leaves of Grass, only that he did not burn it afterwards.

  

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson
  • Grass
  • Discredit
  • Walt