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Old Quotes by Walt Whitman
- The city sleeps and the country sleeps, the living sleep for their time, the dead sleep for their time, the old husband sleeps by his…
- Old age: The estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours into the Great Sea.
- The purpose of democracy - supplanting old belief in the necessary absoluteness of establish'd dynastic rulership, temporal, ecclesiastical, and scholastic, as furnishing the only security…
- Women sit or move to and fro, some old, some young, / The young are beautiful--but the old are more beautiful than the young.
- In the dooryard fronting an old farm-house near the white-wash'd palings, Stands the lilac-bush tall-growing with heart-shaped leaves of rich green, with many a pointed…
- Love-buds, put before you and within you, whoever you are, Buds to be unfolded on the old terms; If you bring the warmth of the…
- More and more too, the old name absorbs into me. Mannahatta, 'the place encircled by many swift tides and sparkling waters.' How fit a name…
- At times it has been doubtful to me if Emerson really knows or feels what Poetry is at its highest, as in the Bible, for…
- 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,…
- I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise, Regardless of others, ever regardful of others, Maternal as well as…
- What do you think has become of the young and old men? And what do you think has become of the women and children? They…
- Youth, large, lusty, loving -- Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force,…
- Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?
- My own songs awakened from that hour, And with them the key, the word up from the waves, The word of the sweetest song and…
More Old Quotes
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
- Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. — Aristotle
- I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I've been playing rock and roll since I was 16 years old, and now I have a 16-year-old. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids… — J. J. Abrams
- It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what… — Lance Armstrong
- In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every… — Brooks Atkinson
- When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something… — Chinua Achebe