I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.
Source: Leaves of Grass, Song of Myself (1892 edition)
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112 quotes about world.
I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.
The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.
The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers:
We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves.
Whatsoever doth happen in the world, doth happen justly.
This seems to me well-nigh the fairest thing in the world.
I was lord of the whole manor; or, if I pleased, I might call myself king or emperor over the whole country which I had possession of.