Quotes by Famous Americans Past and Present
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Quotes by Famous Americans Past and Present
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Walt Disney Quotes Click here for Walt Disney books, CDs, DVDs The Animated Man: A Life of Walt Disney (Simpson Book in the Humanities) "I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I've ever known." "I thank God and America for the right to live and raise my family under the flag of tolerance, democracy and freedom." "Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams, and the hard facts that have created America; with the hope that it will be a source of joy and inspiration to all the world." "I don’t believe in playing down to children, either in life or in motion pictures. I didn’t treat my own youngsters like fragile flowers, and I think no parent should." "The American child is a highly intelligent human being — characteristically sensitive, humorous, open-minded, eager to learn, and has a strong sense of excitement, energy, and healthy curiosity about the world in which he lives. Lucky indeed is the grown-up who manages to carry these same characteristics into adult life. It usually makes for a happy and successful individual." "A man should never neglect his family for business." "Actually, if you could see close in my eyes, the American flag is waving in both of them and up my spine is growing this red, white and blue stripe." "All our dreams can come true — if we have the courage to pursue them." "Courage is the main quality of leadership, in my opinion, no matter where it is exercised. Usually it implies some risk — especially in new undertakings. Courage to initiate something and to keep it going — pioneering and adventurous spirit to blaze new ways, often, in our land of opportunity." "Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource — the minds of our children." "I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess." "If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse." "Laughter is America's most important export." "Physical America — the land itself — should be as
dear to us all as our political heritage and our treasured way of life. Its
preservation and the wise conservation of its renewable resources concerns every
man, woman and child whose possession it is."
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