Famous quotes containing the words whitman, high and/or school:
“O magnet-south! O glistening, perfumed South! my South!
O quick mettle, rich blood, impulse and love! Good and evil! O all dear
to me!”
—Walt Whitman (18191892)
“So having said, a while he stood, expecting
Their universal shout and high applause
To fill his ear; when contrary, he hears,
On all sides, from innumerable tongues
A dismal universal hiss, the sound
Of public scorn.”
—John Milton (16081674)
“By school age, many boys experience pressure to reveal inner feelings as humiliating. They think their mothers are saying to them, You must be hiding something shameful. And shucking clams is a snap compared to prying secrets out of a boy whos decided to clam up.”
—Ron Taffel (20th century)
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