White famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland ride Wearing white for Eastertide. Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again, And take from seventy springs a score, It only leaves me fifty more. And since to look at things in bloom Fifty springs are little room, About the woodlands I will go To see the cherry hung with snow.
-- A. E. Housman -
Gilbert White discovered the formula for complete happiness, but he died before making the announcement, leaving it for me to do so. It is to be very busy with the unimportant.
-- A. Edward Newton -
Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.
-- A. G. Gaston -
The white sun like a moth on a string circles the southpole.
-- A. R. Ammons -
I think you should know that real-life white people are not all as funny as the ones on 'Seinfeld'.
-- Aaron McGruder -
I love writing, but hate starting. The page is awfully white and it says, 'You may have fooled some of the people some of the time but those days are over, Giftless. I'm not your agent and I'm not your mommy: I'm a white piece of paper. You wanna dance with me?' and I really, really don't. I'll go peaceable-like.
-- Aaron Sorkin -
Nowadays people always say, 'How come he's doing such young shows?' But they never mention 'The Mod Squad'. I was very proud of that show. It's the first time an African-American guy kissed a white girl.
-- Aaron Spelling -
The great joy of doing 'The Daily Show' for me is that I get to sit on the fence between cultures. I am commenting on the absurdity of both sides as an outsider and insider. Sometimes I'm playing the brown guy, and sometimes I'm not, but the best stuff I do always goes back to being a brown kid in a white world.
-- Aasif Mandvi -
She started walking toward me and perfect white teeth caught her full bottom lip between them. I’d fantasized about those lips way too many times. She’d barely covered up her long tanned legs with a pair of shorts that made me want to go to church this Sunday just to thank God for creating her.
-- Abbi Glines -
All the Muslims are happy, and Godwilling this earthquake... will be felt right up to the White House.
-- Abol-Ghasem Kashani -
Our republican system was meant for a homogeneous people. As long as blacks continue to live with the whites they constitute a threat to the national life. Family life may also collapse and the increase of mixed breed bastards may some day challenge the supremacy of the white man.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and black races. There is physical difference between the two which, in my judgment, will probably forever forbid their living together upon the footing of perfect equality, and inasmuch as it becomes a necessity that there must be a difference, I, as well as Judge Douglas, am in favor of the race to which I belong having the superior position.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races: that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
People look at me, and they go, 'You're white, you're smart, you must have went to college. You must have grown up with money.'
-- Adam Carolla -
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where noone notices the contrast of white on white.
-- Adam Duritz -
White-collar crime has been marketed - billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.
-- Adam McKay -
It's a significant question: should black people only adopt black children, and white people white children?
-- Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje -
This arch-liar today shows that Britain never was in a position to wage war alone. This gabbler, this drunkard Churchill. And then his accomplice in the White House, this mad fool.
-- Adolf Hitler -
It was my mustache that landed jobs for me. In those silent-film days it was the mark of a villain. When I realized they had me pegged as a foreign nobleman type I began to live the part, too. I bought a pair of white spats, an ascot tie and a walking stick.
-- Adolphe Menjou -
When I put my pen to a blank sheet, black isn’t added but rather the white sheet is deprived of light. [] Thus I also grasped that the empty spaces are the most important aspect of a typeface.
-- Adrian Frutiger -
I am sure in some years from now you will see new posters with just white space and four lines in Garamond.
-- Adrian Frutiger -
We have seen over and over that white male historians in general have tended to dismiss any history they didn't themselves write,on the grounds that it is unserious, unscholarly, a fad, too "political," "merely" oral and thus unreliable.
-- Adrienne Rich -
How you act, walk, look and talk is all part of Hip Hop culture. And the music is colorless. Hip Hop music is made from Black, brown, yellow, red and white.
-- Afrika Bambaataa -
Don't get caught up on 'I'm brown, black, white, red, blue, whatever.' You gotta ask, what were you called before 1492? All these names we're using now are just an illusion made to keep us fighting each other.
-- Afrika Bambaataa -
No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
-- Agnes de Mille -
That narrow stretch of sand knows nothing in the world better than it does the white waves that whip it , caress it , collapse on to it . The white foam knows nothing better than those sands which wait for it , rise to it and suck it in .but what do the waves know of the massed, hot, still sands of the desert just twenty , no , ten feet beyond the scalloped edge ? And what does the beach knows of depths, the cold, the currents just there, where-do you see it? - Where the water turns a deeper blue.
-- Ahdaf Soueif -
Theres two kinds of music: black soul music, and the white imitation thereof.
-- Ahmet Ertegun -
What does this word holiness really mean? Is it a negative kind of piety from which so many people have shied away? No, of course not! Holiness in the Bible means moral wholeness-- a positive quality which actually includes kindness, mercy, purity, moral blamelessness and godliness. It is always to be thought of in a positive, white intensity of degree.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
It is no use painting the foot of the tree white, the strength of the bark cries out from beneath the paint.
-- Aime Cesaire -
Love is a deception and a trap. Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in a throne and looks at us.
-- Al Goldstein -
I've learned the importance of changing people's minds at the grassroots level so that whoever does run will have a much better chance of encountering public opinion that reaches a critical mass and brings about a change not only in White House policies but in the Congress and in the state legislatures and all around the world.
-- Al Gore -
I have found people on both sides of the aisle, white and black, that'll give you the shirt off their back. And I've also found people that won't give you a piece of bread if you're starving to death.
-- Al Green -
The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody's house.
-- Al Sharpton -
White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires ... We built pyramids before Donald Trump ever knew what architecture was ... we taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it.
-- Al Sharpton -
Evangelicals catapulted George W. Bush back to the White House.
-- Al Sharpton -
There are white n*ggers. I've seen a lot of white n*ggers in my time.
-- Al Sharpton -
What’s wrong with denouncing white interlopers?
-- Al Sharpton -
It's the one species I wouldn't mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth. I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
-- Alan Bennett -
Increasingly, I wonder if there are any outrages that would be sufficiently ominous in their effects upon liberty and unequivocal in their moral perversity to awaken the American people to the tyrannical spirit that envelopes the Clinton White House.
-- Alan Keyes -
I know what's good for me. I can't play black or gray. I can't be a villain or anything close to one. I have to play white
-- Alan Ladd -
In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls. Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
-- Alan Paton -
I have a love-hate relationship with white silk.
-- Alan Rickman -
Nothing's black or white in our country - you're either brilliant or you're hopeless
-- Alan Shearer -
No money in the world can buy a white England shirt.
-- Alan Shearer -
Some days I feel like a piano: kind of short, always in black & white, always expected to produce music.
-- Alber Elbaz -
Besides paid white laborers, there was everywhere a class of white servants bound without wages for a term of years, and a more miserable class of Negro slaves.
-- Albert Bushnell Hart -
There is separation of colored people from white people in the United States. That separation is not a disease of colored people. It is a disease of white people. And, I do not intend to be quiet about it.
-- Albert Einstein -
I took my obligations from white men, not from negroes. When I have to accept negroes as brothers or leave masonry, I shall leave it
-- Albert Pike -
If education really educates, there will, in time, be more and more citizens who understand that relics of the old West add meaning and value to the new. Youth yet unborn will pole up the Missouri with Lewis and Clark, or climb the Sierras with James Capen Adams, and each generation in turn will ask: Where is the big white bear? It will be a sorry answer to say he went under while conservationists weren't looking.
-- Aldo Leopold -
The poet is born with the capacity of arranging words in such a way that something of the quality of the graces and inspirations he has received can make itself felt to other human beings in the white spaces, so to speak, between the lines of his verse. This is a great and precious gift; but if the poet remains content with his gift, if he persists in worshipping the beauty in art and nature without going on to make himself capable, through selflessness, of apprehending Beauty as it is in the divine Ground, then he is only an idolater.
-- Aldous Huxley -
If Obama was white, he’d be up by 17 points.
-- Alec Baldwin -
Whether you are Minor White or Robert Frank, almost every photograph starts with an act of pure description - a window. But every now and then you catch a glimpse of the photographer's reflection. The mirror is just another function of the window.
-- Alec Soth -
I am a supporter of blacks. White civilization; their cultural values​​, false, dehumanizing model of the world, built by them - did not pay off. Everything goes to the beginning of the anti-white pogroms on a planetary scale. Russia saved only by the fact that we are not pure white. Predatory multinational corporations, oppression and suppression of all others, MTV, gays and lesbians - this is the fruit of white civilization, from which it is necessary to get rid of. So I am for reds, yellows, greens, blacks - but not for whites. I wholeheartedly on the side of the people of Zimbabwe.
-- Aleksandr Dugin -
And I certainly don’t like the white supremacists and those whose religion is hating the Jews, period.
-- Alex Jones -
The Jew haters and white supremacists…all they do is fight with each other all day too.
-- Alex Jones -
Its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery . . . is his natural and normal condition.
-- Alexander H. Stephens -
Constitutionally, gentlemen, you have the president, the vice president and the secretary of state, in that order, and should the president decide he wants to transfer the helm to the vice president, he will do so. As for now, I'm in control here, in the White House, pending the return of the vice president and in close touch with him. If something came up, I would check with him, of course.
-- Alexander Haig -
Mma Ramotswe had a detective agency in Africa, at the foot of Kgale Hill. These were its assets: a tiny white van, two desks, two chairs, a telephone, and an old typewriter. Then there was a teapot, in which Mma Ramotswe – the only lady private detective in Botswana – brewed redbush tea. And three mugs – one for herself, one for her secretary, and one for the client. What else does a detective agency really need? Detective agencies rely on human intuition and intelligence, both of which Mma Ramotswe had in abundance. No inventory would ever include those, of course.
-- Alexander McCall Smith -
I entreat you to leave your work at home to the many who are ready to undertake it, and to come forth yourselves to reap this field now white to the harvest.
-- Alexander Murdoch Mackay -
The most compelling insight of that day was that this awesome recall had been brought about by a fraction of a gram of a white solid, but that in no way whatsoever could it be argued that these memories had been contained within the white solid. Everything I had recognized came from the depths of my memory and my psyche. I understood that our entire universe is contained in the mind and the spirit. We may choose not to find access to it, we may even deny its existence, but it is indeed there inside us, and there are chemicals that can catalyze its availability.
-- Alexander Shulgin -
The pleased sea on a white-breasted shore-- A shore that wears on her alluring brows Rare shells, far brought, the love-gifts of the sea, That blushed a tell-tale.
-- Alexander Smith -
Because she knows what it's like to live in a world of black, and black, and the tiny bit of white, but when she escaped it, she didn't find the rainbow of colors, the dresses, the singing, the dancing. She only found ugliness.
-- Alexandra Bracken -
In New York’s Times Square a white-clad girl clutches her purse and skirt as an uninhibited sailor plants his lips squarely on hers.
-- Alfred Eisenstaedt -
Males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheeps and goats. Not all things are black nor all things white.
-- Alfred Kinsey -
Snow. White, white, white, soft and clean, and maddening shapes, with the whole world in them.
-- Alfred Stieglitz -
The sentence 'snow is white' is true if, and only if, snow is white.
-- Alfred Tarski -
This war is really the greatest insanity in which white races have ever been engaged.
-- Alfred von Tirpitz -
White rose in red rose-garden Is not so white; Snowdrops, that plead for pardon And pine for fright Because the hard East blows Over their maiden vows, Grow not as this face grows from pale to bright.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne -
She walks--the lady of my delight-- A sheperdess of sheep. Her flocks are thoughts. She keeps them white; She guards them from the steep. She feeds them on the fragrant height, And folds them in for sleep.
-- Alice Meynell -
One drop of hatred in your soul will spread and discolor everything like a drop of black ink in white milk.
-- Alice Munro -
Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.
-- Alice Walker -
For a second marriage a lady has to content herself with a quiet ceremony in a chapel or at home, if she doesn't want to be married by a magistrate. Having, it is to be hoped, lost her right to white satin she wears a simple afternoon frock and hat.
-- Alice-Leone Moats -
I love chocolate. I like milk and dark chocolate, but definitely not white.
-- Alicia Sacramone -
I can't tell a story in the white man's language, so I say what I want to say with my paintings.
-- Allen Sapp -
Well, first of all, we've got to get away from being offended by the truth. We've seen a 41 percent increase in food stamp recipients across the United States of America since President Obama was sworn in in January 2009. That has nothing to do with black, white, Hispanic or whatever. It's a fact, and we need to, you know, deal with that.
-- Allen West -
My dancers must be able to do anything, and I don't care if they are black or white or purple or green. I want to help show my people how beautiful they are. I want to hold up the mirror to my audience that says this is the way people can be, this is how open people can be.
-- Alvin Ailey -
If you're from Africa, why are you white?
-- Amanda Seyfried -
Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Pertaining to a certain order of architecture, otherwise known as Normal American. Most of the public buildings of the United States are of the Ramshackle order, though some of our earlier architects preferred the Ironic. Recent additions to the White House in Washington are Theo-Doric, the ecclesiastic order of the Dorians. They are exceedingly fine and cost one hundred dollars a brick.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
ZIGZAG, v.t. To move forward uncertainly, from side to side, as one carrying the white man's burden.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Most American white men are trained to be fags. For this reason it is no wonder their faces are weak and blank...
-- Amiri Baraka -
When I die, the consciousness I carry I will to black people./May they pick me apart and take the useful parts, the sweet meat of my feelings./And leave the bitter bullshit rotten white parts alone.
-- Amiri Baraka -
If you are black, the only roads into the mainland of American life are through subservience, cowardice, and loss of manhood. These are the white man's roads.
-- Amiri Baraka -
Black America Has Allowed Itself to Be Used by Race-Baiters and White Liberal Elitists
-- Amy Ridenour -
I don't listen to a lot of new stuff. I just like the old stuff. It's all quite dramatic and atmospheric. You'd have an entire story in song. I never listen to, like, white music - I couldn't sing you a Zeppelin or Floyd song.
-- Amy Winehouse -
I wanted everything. What could you not want when you are brown and Indian-looking in a society in which the white aesthetic is praised as acceptable?
-- Ana Castillo -
When I stand at the top of the Champs-Elysées, with its chestnut trees in flower, its undulations of shining cars, its white spaciousness, I feel as if I were biting into a utopian fruit, something velvety and lustrous and rich and vivid.
-- Anais Nin -
Your white tee, well to me, looks like a nightgown; Make your mama proud, take that thing two sizes down.
-- Andre Benjamin -
The late Estee Lauder says you can never wear white shoes after Labor Day. But of course, in today's world, that does not exist.
-- Andre Leon Talley -
Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.
-- Andre Maurois -
Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North.
-- Andrew Johnson -
I would have gone right ahead but the only thing, the only phenomenon that's going on now of course, which is different in my experiences, is that you are getting things planted in the Net by people about the Woman in White on the Net. That's not a nice change.
-- Andrew Lloyd Webber -
Two years ago I hadn't even thought of the Woman in White, and I was doing a television show and I said I hadn't found a story and the next day somebody rang me and said have you ever thought of the Woman in White.
-- Andrew Lloyd Webber -
I think it's probably, musically, probably the most sophisticated. ("The Woman in White") There's a lot more daring harmony in it than in some of my pieces...If you know what you want to do, as I always loved musicals, and then to have been lucky enough to be successful with them, I think that's all you can ask, isn't it?...Sondheim is absolutely wonderful and Alan Jay Lerner was wonderful.
-- Andrew Lloyd Webber -
No white nor red was ever seen So am'rous as this lovely green. Fond lovers, cruel as their flame, Cut in these trees their mistress' name. Little, alas, they know or heed How far these beauties hers exceed! Fair trees! where s'e'er your barks I wound, No name shall but your own be found.
-- Andrew Marvell -
Any yellow, any blue, any red and a white are all I need.
-- Andrew McDermott -
I can pretty much call anyone, whether at the White House, in a company or in the media. I have access, because of the silliness of the entertainment world and how people react to it. It gave me an enormous opportunity to do anything I really want to.
-- Andrew Shue
