Quotes and Sayings About White
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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
