In the faces of men and women I see God.


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In the faces of men and women I see God
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I have never read a line of Walt Whitman.
MARY MACLANE
Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies.
FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA
What would Walt Whitman do?
GARTH RISK HALLBERG
It was someone from [Walt] Whitman ? I don't recall who.
DON STRASSER
I exist as I am, that is enough" Song of Myself by Walt Whitman
PENELOPE DOUGLAS
The only dance masters I could have were Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Walt Whitman and Nietzsche.
ISADORA DUNCAN
I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least,
Nor do I understan...
WALT WHITMAN
Walt Whitman is the only great modern poet who does not seem to experience discord when he faces his...
OCTAVIO PAZ
Poetry. I read Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Jane Hirschfield. I like to read Billy Collins out...
AMY TAN
The poetry of Walt Whitman. I can return again and again to these magnificent poems and still get pl...
ROBERT LITTELL
My hero is Jimmie Rodgers, ... He should be up there with Walt Whitman.
STEVE FORBERT
Walt Whitman who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictio...
DAVID LODGE
In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass, I find letters from God dr...
WALT WHITMAN
Re-examine all you have been told . . . Dismiss what insults your Soul. -Walt Whitman.
WALT WHITMAN
'Beloved Renegade' is a meditation on Walt Whitman, on tenderness, on dying.
ROBERT GOTTLIEB
I really love poetry. I'm a big E.E. Cummings fan and a big Walt Whitman fan, and I have a big b...
MAE WHITMAN
I gotta say - if I clicked on a movie interview, and the first part was all about Walt Whitman, I...
ADAM MCKAY
Walt Whitman defended the sacredness of love, the purity of passion - the passion that builds every ...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of ...
DAVID LODGE
Pleasured equally
In seeking as in finding,
Each detail minding,
Old Walt went seekin...
LANGSTON HUGHES
The noisy jay swoops by and reviles me, he complains of my meow and my malingering.

I too...
HENRY N. BEARD
You can never know where I am or what I am,
But I am good company to you nonetheless,
And ...
HENRY N. BEARD
Behold the day-break!
I awaken you by sitting on your chest and purring in your face,
I st...
HENRY N. BEARD
I situate myself, and seat myself,
And where you recline I shall recline,
For every armcha...
HENRY N. BEARD
I'm not denying the women are foolish: God almighty made 'em to match the men
GEORGE ELIOT
I'm not denying the women are foolish: God almighty made 'em to match the men
GEORGE ELIOT
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ANNA QUINDLEN
In God, the characteristics of men and women that we admire in men and women are combined. That'...
ANDREW GREELEY
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FAITH RINGGOLD
I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the ...
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I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the ...
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Hardy went down to botanize in the swamp, while Meredith climbed towards the sun. Meredith became, a...
G. K. CHESTERTON
‎God remains silent so that men and women may speak, protest, and struggle. God remains silent so ...
ELSA TAMEZ
I think it's very important for both women and men to see women working in a variety of capaciti...
MAGGIE HASSAN
God made woman beautiful and foolish; beautiful, that man might love her; and foolish, that she migh...
WOODROW WYATT
Societies where there are worthy men and women of God, not necessarily preachers or religious men, b...
SUNDAY ADELAJA
In all people I see myself, none more and not one a barleycorn less,
And the good or bad I say ...
WALT WHITMAN
I own works by women artists; it is hard for me to see, literally to see, how women and men differ i...
AGNES GUND
God favors men and women who delight in being made worthy of happiness before the happiness itself.
CRISS JAMI
Trust in God - she will provide.
EMMELINE PANKHURST
I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman's mind to be more like my own than any other man's li...
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS
The mark of a real man, is a man who can allow himself to fall deeply in love with a woman. But the ...
C. JOYBELL C.
Today the same thing over. I've got it up the tree again.
MARK TWAIN
So who's perfect? Washington had false teeth. Franklin was nearsighted. Mussolini had syphilis. Unpl...
JOHN O'HARA
Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, tho...
BETTE DAVIS
If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious
ALPHONSE KARR
How different the reasoning is that men adopt when they are discussing the cases of men and those of...
EMMELINE PANKHURST
Men make the moral code and they expect women to accept it
EMMELINE PANKHURST
I identify with women more than men. I guess I have a strong feminine side.
LENNY KRAVITZ
Women prefer men who have something tender about them -- especially the legal kind.
KAY INGRAM
One does so hate to admit that the average woman is kinder, finer, more quick of sympathy and on the...
SHERWOOD ANDERSON
Cuz I can count on one hand the men who’ve loved me, not in the Biblical sense—I don’t have en...
SHANNON CELEBI
God is for men and religion is for women
JOSEPH CONRAD
Scripture is filled with examples of men and women whom God used late in life, often with great impa...
BILLY GRAHAM
My God, it's been 57, 58 years, and I can still see their faces. They'd come up and you could see fr...
BILL NIEPOETTER
Each of us inevitable; Each of us limitless - each of us with his or her right upon the earth; Each ...
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Are you chuckling yet? Because then along came you. A big, broad meat eater with brash blond hair an...
LIONEL SHRIVER
My chief literary influences have been Paul Laurence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman. My fav...
LANGSTON HUGHES
I have met so many heartbroken men. It's a catastrophe. Women are easily overcome by the process tha...
C. JOYBELL C.
Men trust God by risking rejection. Women trust God by waiting.
CAROLYN MCCULLEY
We are reluctant to admit that we owe our liberties to men of a type that today we hate and fear - u...
GERALD W. JOHNSTON
What we see is that the number of women below the age of 35 in television is far greater. Interestin...
ANNA TURLEY
Men write Bibles. God doesn't. God writes in stars and worlds and seasons and Hudson Rivers and beau...
MARK SIEGEL
Sarah learnt a lot from Alex. Like the way men could say one thing, then another, then act in a way ...
EMILY MAGUIRE
Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any...
JANE GOODSELL
You know what? I'm really attracted to British women, there's something innately proper about them. ...
JOSH HARTNETT
Women say they have sexual thoughts too. They have no idea. It's the difference between shooting a b...
LARRY MILLER
All beautiful women are murderers. You've probably heard it said before.
MIKE LESTER
I would suggest that especially in the differential of images that arise, in the inflections that we...
LORILIAI BIERNACKI
I would suggest that especially in the differential of images that arise, in the inflections that we...
LORILIAI BIERNACKI
If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will ...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
As Walt Whitman says, “I am sufficient as I am.” It is sufficient that I live—and am probably ...
LIN YUTANG
In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are...
GEORGE BALANCHINE
Oh, God, why don't I remember that a little chaos is good for the soul?
MARILYN FRENCH
I separated from the Southern Baptists when they adopted the discriminatory attitude towards women, ...
JIMMY CARTER
I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.
CHARLES V
I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men and German to my horse.
CHARLES V
To God I speak Spanish, to women Italian, to men French, and to my horse--German.
JASON CHAMBERLAIN
Men and women aren't too dissimilar.
CHRIS EVANS
Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to be as mediocre as possible
MARGARET MEAD
Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.
NANCY WITCHER ASTOR, VISCOUNTESS
Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.
NANCY WITCHER ASTOR VISCOUNTESS
On one issue, at least, men and women agree: they both distrust women
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON
He had heard that women often love plain ordinary men, but he did not believe it, because he judged ...
LEO NIKOLAEVICH TOLSTOY
Women must understand that simply attacking or hating men is just another form of disempowerment. A ...
TORI AMOS
Men seem unable to feel equal to women: they must be superior or they are inferior
MARILYN FRENCH
Most women have all other women as adversaries; most men have all other men as their allies
FRANK GELETT BURGESS
Reputation is what men and women think of us. Character is what God and the angels know of us.
THOMAS PAINE
Character is what God and the angels know of us; reputation is what men and women think of us.
HORACE MANN
Reputation is what men and women think of you; character is what God and the angels know of you
THOMAS PAYNE
Women are the strong people in this world, not men. I think TV is finally catching up with that real...
FINN JONES
Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
JACKIE MASON
Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other ...
BAUDELAIRE
I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home, which answer the same purpose ...
MARIE CORELLI
I married beneath me. All women do.
CHER
For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely unnatur...
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WALT WHITMAN
I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise,
Regardless of others, ever regardful...
WALT WHITMAN
Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep w...
WALT WHITMAN
If you want me again look for me under your boot soles.
WALT WHITMAN
Peace is always beautiful.
WALT WHITMAN
I exist as I am, that is enough,
If no other in the world be aware I sit content,
And if...
WALT WHITMAN
I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.
WALT WHITMAN
I am large, I contain multitudes
WALT WHITMAN
Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you.
You must travel it by yourself.
It is...
WALT WHITMAN
Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself; I am large -- I contain multitudes.
WALT WHITMAN
Behind this face that appears so impassive Hell's tides continually run
WALT WHITMAN
Seeing, hearing and feeling are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.
WALT WHITMAN
Each of us inevitable; Each of us limitless - each of us with his or her right upon the earth; Each ...
WALT WHITMAN
Many a good man I have seen go under.
WALT WHITMAN
These are the days that must happen to you.
WALT WHITMAN
I celebrate myself, and what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belon...
WALT WHITMAN
Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?
WALT WHITMAN
Youth, large, lusty, loving - Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may...
WALT WHITMAN
Give me the splendid silent sun, with all his beams full-dazzling.
WALT WHITMAN
In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single w...
WALT WHITMAN
I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
WALT WHITMAN
Simplicity is the glory of expression
WALT WHITMAN
Did you, too, O friend, suppose democracy was only for elections, for politics, and for a party name...
WALT WHITMAN
The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul.
WALT WHITMAN
The earth, that is sufficient, I do not want the constellations any nearer, I know they are very wel...
WALT WHITMAN
Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in ...
WALT WHITMAN
Sail Forth- Steer for the deep waters only. Reckless O soul, exploring. I with thee and thou with me...
WALT WHITMAN