Birnbaums Walt Quotes

No matter how the wind howls. The mountain cannot bow to it. ~ Walt Disney Company

He who touches the soil of Manhattan and the pavement of New York, touches, whenever he knows or not, Walt Whitman. ~ Lewis Mumford

The mother condemned for a witch and burnt with dry
wood, and her children gazing on;
The hounded slave that flags in the race and leans by the
fence, blowing and covered with sweat,
The twinges that sting like needles his legs and neck,
The murderous buckshot and the bullets,
All these I feel or am. ~ Walt Whitman

I can write about all of these bizarre and funny characters in my book, "Diggin' Elroy," because I know them better than anyone else. I have a little bit of all of them in me. ~ Walt Griffin

The poetry of Walt Whitman. I can return again and again to these magnificent poems and still get pleasure from reading them. ~ Robert Littell

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood. ~ Walt Disney Company

To me the converging objects of the universe perpetually flow, ~ Walt Whitman

Beck's smile is intense and sincere, a smile with, not a smile at. Mom used to say you could tell a lot by the way a person treats the innocent, and Walt is nothing if not innocence personified. ~ David Arnold

The words of my book are nothing, the drift of it everything. ~ Walt Whitman

I accept Reality and dare not question it, Materialism first and last imbuing. ~ Walt Whitman

I do not want to make teaching films. If I did, I would create a separate organization. It is not higher education that interests me so much as general mass education. ~ Walt Disney

What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life. ~ Walt Whitman

It is in the American interest to put an end to Nationhood. That is the goal in global government. America must get out of the United Nations or our sovereign Republic will not survive. ~ Walt Whitman Rostow

Man tries to swallow meaning whole as a dog would eat his dinner. ~ Walt Kelly

TO the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist much, obey little,
Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved,
Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever after-ward resumes its liberty. ~ Walt Whitman

Walt loved technology. He didn't understand it half the time, but the beauty of good technology was that he didn't have to understand it. Just use it. ~ Ridley Pearson

It is not good enough for things to be planned - they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation. ~ Walt Kelly

I had a friend in college who loved to say: 'If you can dream it, you can do it.' It became my mantra. I assumed it was a pearl of wisdom from some great thinker, a philosopher perhaps, like Descartes. It turned out to be Walt Disney, which in no way diminishes the wisdom of the advice. Anyone who can build a Magic Kingdom deserves to be listened to. ~ Michele Gorman

Art was always a means to an end with me. You get an idea, and you just can't wait. Once you've started, then you're in there with the punches flying. There's plenty of trouble, but you can handle it. You can't back out. It gets you down once in a while, but it's exciting. Our whole business is exciting. ~ Walt Disney

I love the nostalgic myself. I hope we never lose some of the things of the past. ~ Walt Disney Company

Here is the world of imagination, hopes, and dreams. In this timeless land of enchantment, the age of chivalry, magic and make-believe are reborn - and fairy tales come true. Fantasyland is dedicated to the young-in-heart, to those who that when you wish upon a star, your dreams come true. ~ Walt Disney Company

The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem. ~ Walt Whitman

My chief literary influences have been Paul Laurence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman. My favorite public figures include Jimmy Durante, Marlene Dietrich, Mary McLeod Bethune, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Marian Anderson, and Henry Armstrong. ~ Langston Hughes

I too felt the curious abrupt questionings stir within me, In the day among crowds of people sometimes they came upon me, In my walks home late at night or as I lay in my bed they came upon me. ~ Walt Whitman

(The first scrying bowl Walt had made actually did ignite, but that's another story.) ~ Rick Riordan

My spirit has pass'd in compassion and determination around the whole earth.
I have look'd for equals and lovers an found them ready for me in all lands,
I think some divine rapport has equalized me with them ~ Walt Whitman

And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels. ~ Walt Whitman

Day full-blown and splendid-day of the immense sun, action, ambition, laughter, The Night follows close with millions of suns, and sleep and restoring darkness. ~ Walt Whitman

The progress of the sciences toward theories of fundamental unity, cosmic symmetry (as in the unified field theory) - how do such theories differ, in the end, from that unity which Plato called "unspeakable" and "indiscribable," the holistic knowledge shared by so many peoples of the earth, Christians included, before the advent of the industrial revolution made new barbarians of the peoples of the West? In the United States, before spiritualist foolishness at the end of the last century confused mysticism with "the occult" and tarnished both, William James wrote a master work of metaphysics; Emerson spoke of "the wise silence, the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related, the eternal One . . ."; Melville referred to "that profound silence, that only voice of God"; Walt Whitman celebrated the most ancient secret, that no God could be found "more divine than yourself. ~ Peter Matthiessen

Actually, everything has been said in print ... it's a battle of giants and it's something that Walt would say is none of your business - go right on and create the best you can. ~ Joe Grant

But the people are ungrammatical, untidy, and their sins gaunt and ill-bred. ~ Walt Whitman

Now more than ever, we need people with the qualities Walt had: optimism, imagination, creativity, leadership, integrity, courage, boldness, perseverance, commitment to excellence, reverence for the past, hope for tomorrow and faith in God. How ~ Pat Williams

Never put business before family, ~ Walt Disney

He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher."
-from "Song of Myself ~ Walt Whitman

Man, he could sell. As he liked to say, he lived at the intersection of technology and liberal arts. But there was a more personal side of Steve Jobs, of course, and I was fortunate enough to see a bit of it because I spent hours in conversation with him over the 14 years he ran Apple. ~ Walt Mossberg