Quote

Main Street, U.S.A. is America at the turn of the century--the crossroads of an era. The gas lamps and the electric lamp--the horse-drawn car and auto car. Main Street is everyone's hometown- the heart line of America.

Walt Disney

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Walt Disney
Age: 64 †
Born: 1901
Born: December 5
Died: 1966
Died: February 15
Actor
Animator
Caricaturist
Director
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Illustrator
Inventor
Manufacturer
Painter
Screenwriter
Chicago
Illinois
Walter Elias Disney
W. Disney
Walter E. Disney
Heart
Line
Gas
Streets
Electric
Century
Eras
Turn
Drawn
Lines
Main
Auto
Turns
Street
Crossroads
Everyone
Horse
Lamp
America
Car
Lamps

More quotes by Walt Disney

Image
I'm doing this because I want to do it better.
Walt Disney
Image
When we do fantasy, we must not lose sight of reality.
Walt Disney
Image
Faith. Trust. and Pixie Dust.
Walt Disney
Image
The ideal set-up would be the story man, the director, and the layout man, as well as musician, operating as a sort of story unit. They all should be keenly interested in the picture. No one in person should donate to an extent where he would keep the others from entering into the production and freely expressing themselves.
Walt Disney
Image
It feels good when it helps to get a good seat for a football game. But it never helped me make a good film or a good shot in a polo game, or command the obedience of my daughter. It doesn
Walt Disney
Image
It is good to have a failure while you're young because it teaches you so much. For one thing it makes you aware that such a thing can happen to anybody, and once you've lived through the worst, you're never quite as vulnerable afterward.
Walt Disney
Image
Perhaps Bach and Beethoven are strange bedfellows for Mickey Mouse, but it's all been a lot of fun.
Walt Disney
Image
Disneyland really began when my two daughters were very young. Saturday was always Daddy's Day and I would take them to the merry-go-round, and sit on a bench eating peanuts while they rode. And sitting there alone, I felt there should be something built, some kind of family park where parents and children could have fun together.
Walt Disney
Image
Sometimes I think of myself as a little bee. I go from one area of the studio to another and gather pollen and sort of stimulate everybody. I guess that’s the job I do.
Walt Disney
Image
A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there.
Walt Disney
Image
I definitely feel that we cannot do the fantastic things based on the real, unless we first know the real.
Walt Disney
Image
There is no magic in magic, it's all in the details.
Walt Disney
Image
Everyone has to contribute, or they become laborers.
Walt Disney
Image
I first saw the site for Disneyland back in 1953, In those days it was all flat land - no rivers, no mountains, no castles or rocket ships - just orange groves, and a few acres of walnut trees.
Walt Disney
Image
When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.
Walt Disney
Image
Why be a governor or senator when you can be king of Disneyland?
Walt Disney
Image
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.
Walt Disney
Image
Until a character becomes a personality it cannot be believed.
Walt Disney
Image
I just make what I like - warm and human stories, ones about historic characters and events, and about animals. If there is a secret, I guess it's that I never make the pictures too childish, but always try to get in a little satire of adult foibles.
Walt Disney
Image
Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it's done right.
Walt Disney