Life Quotes

I exist as I am, that is enough.

Walt Whitman

Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.

Walt Whitman

There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.

Walt Whitman

In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.

Walt Whitman

The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.

Walt Whitman

I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?

Walt Whitman

If you done it, it ain't bragging.

Walt Whitman

The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.

Walt Whitman

The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.

Walt Whitman

Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?

Walt Whitman

And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.

Walt Whitman

Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?

Walt Whitman

The beautiful uncut hair of graves.

Walt Whitman

Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.

Walt Whitman

To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.

Walt Whitman

Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?

Walt Whitman

The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.

Walt Whitman

But nobody predicted anything of this magnitude in terms of resistance. And in part, the magnitude of the resistance was spurred by our failures in reconstruction.

Wayne White

I don't like the idea of busing children all over the country. It's not safe. And there doesn't seem to be that much of an urgent need for it to be done.

Wayne White

If they make the deadline because the Shiites and Kurds essentially rammed a draft through over Sunni Arab objections, there will be hell to pay.

Wayne White

The whole purpose of those attacks was to drive those contractors out. Lots of them had to leave. They were terrified.

Wayne White