"This is the city, and I am..." - Quote by Walt Whitman

“Long and long has the grass been growing,Long and long has the rain been falling,Long has the globe been rolling round.”

“Give me solitude, give me Nature, give me again O Nature your primal sanities!”

“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 for America's great democratic island city! The word itself, how beautiful! how aboriginal! how it seems to rise with tall spires, glistening in sunshine, with such New World atmosphere, vista and action!”

“Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.”

“There are two kinds of people in this world. 'I' people and 'we' people. I've always tried to be a 'we' person.”

“In morality, man treats himself not as individuum but as dividuum.”

“Our country is wherever we are well off.[Lat., Patria est, ubicunque est bene.]”

“These people are a part of me. And they are a part of America, this country that I love.”

“I am wearied, as if I lacked a home to go to.”