Song Of The Open Road Quotes

#1. Now understand me well
it is provided in the essence of things that from any fruition of success, no matter what, shall come forth something to make a greater struggle necessary. [from "Song of the Open Road"]

Walt Whitman

#2. Am larger, better than I thought, I did not know I held so much goodness. - Walt Whitman, Song of the Open Road

Anonymous

#3. I inhale great draught of space...the east and west are mine...and the north and south are mine...I am grandeur than I thought...I did not know i held so much goodness.

Walt Whitman

#4. It is bad enough when rich Christians shoe little concern for the poor, but when they moan about their lot, they show contempt not only for the poor but also for the generosity of God.

Tim Chester

#5. Even after 400 generations in villages and cities, we haven't forgotten. The open road still softly calls, like a nearly forgotten song of childhood.

Carl Sagan

#6. Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

Denis Waitley

#7. The notion that economic life is a distinct realm, governed by immutable laws of narrow self-interest, is giving way to a much older notion: economic life is only one strand in the rich web of human relationships.

Frances Moore Lappe

#8. Charm me into giving you the red M&Ms. They're my favorite.'
I looked Hades in the eyes. 'Give me the red M&Ms.'
'Still not good enough.'
'Give me the damn M&Ms,'I snapped.
He snickered. 'That wasn't very charming.

Kaitlin Bevis

#9. Old custom is hard to break and scarce any man will be led otherwise than seemeth good unto himself.

Thomas A Kempis

#10. All these lives," she said. "All the stories we never know." (125)

Elizabeth Strout

#11. Remember Judy Garland? She retired 40 times.

Willard Scott

#12. Beauty is within; you just have to bring it out.

Fatema Mernissi

#13. Kids - in a really good way - can talk about their differences without the baggage that adults have.

Jim McKay

#14. The more I get to know men, the more I love dogs.

Charles De Gaulle

#15. He's Excited. Like a small boy, he's iridescent with anticipation and excitement. It makes me smile.

E.L. James

#16. Democracy is indispensable to socialism.

Vladimir Lenin

#17. Martin Luther King took us to the mountain top: I want to take us to the bank.

Don King

#18. I've written a number of songs over the years and it's a big part of my life, this sort of tension between a longing for home and the call for the open road. It's sort of like a tug between two families. I even love to miss my home.

James Taylor

#19. You have to know yourself enough to be able to choose friends that you will be compatible with.

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