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.

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I love the smell of freshly cut grass. It takes me back to summers in Maine.
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Mangroves, salt marshes and sea grass lock away carbon at up to five times the rate of tropical forests.
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I'm a millionaire, but I cut the grass. And each time I cut it, it's my grass. And that is satisfying.
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I didn’t even know I could write music, but somehow Walt did. He tapped my hidden talents.
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Anyone who watches golf on television would enjoy watching the grass grow on the greens.
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In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial grass.
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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!
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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.
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Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge.
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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.
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I let go of all desire for the common good, and the good becomes as common as the grass.
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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.
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O Earth, O Earth, return! Arise from out the dewy grass; Night is worn; And the morn Rises from the slumbrous mass.
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No one thinks of winter when the grass is green.
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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.
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The power that makes grass grow, fruit ripen, and guides the bird in flight is in us all.
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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.
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Ball is made of leather, leather comes from cows, cows eat grass, and there is where the ball must be.
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To have someone like Clint Eastwood come along and shoot your first draft as written is just any screenwriter's dream. And Clint is very straightforward. If it's good enough to get his attention, it's good enough to produce.
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The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.
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The hottest look for a night out is a deep side part. If that part is not at least three inches in length, then start over. The wider the part, the more open your eyes appear. It is an alluring and seductive look that will keep your date's attention the entire night.
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Don't you hate it when...your suitcase is the last one off the airplane?
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It is no discredit to Walt Whitman that he wrote Leaves of Grass, only that he did not burn it afterwards.