Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jennifer Chiaverini

What I would give, I thought, to have been present as Elizabeth Keckley measured Mary Lincoln for a new gown, to overhear their conversations on topics significant and ordinary, to observe the Lincoln White House from such an intimate perspective. From that moment, my interest in their remarkable friendship was captivated, and it never really waned.

Jeff Greenfield

George Washington, Andrew Jackson, William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Ulysses Grant, Rutherford Hayes, James Garfield, Benjamin Harrison, Theodore Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower all rode their wartime heroics into the White House.

Jean Shepherd

I've met them down in the Cost and Accounting Department, clean-shaven and in white collars. They can't see a damn thing ridiculous about themselves... only about you.

Jean Rhys

They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did.

Gil Gerard

I liked working with Tom Christopher as he was great as Hawk, and Wilfred Hyde White but I wished it were in a different context as the changes really tuned off the audience.

Halle Berry

Blackness is a state of mind and I identify with the black community. Mainly, because I realized, early on, when I walk into a room, people see a black woman, they don't see a white women. So out of that reason alone, I identify more with the black community.

Gregory Hines

I read the script, and I knew it was a good part. It was written for a white actor. That's what I'm up against - I have to try to make roles happen for me that aren't written black.

Howard Zinn

What matters most is not who is sitting in the White House, but "who is sitting in" -- and who is marching outside the White House, pushing for change.

Hosea Ballou

How white are the fair robes of Charity as she walketh amid the lowly habitations of the poor!

Fred F. Fielding

It is hard for people outside the White House to understand the constant daily problems and issues that come up that require the president's attention, but he can not let himself get too personally involved.

Fred Astaire

I don't like top hats, white ties, and tails.

Addie did nothing different than her white counterparts have been doing for years.

Bernie Sanders

Interestingly, a lot of the polling that I see is not along racial lines, but along generational lines. We are doing better and better among younger people, not so well among older people, whether they're African-American, whether they're white or whether they're Latino.

I like the A's best, but I like the White Sox and Angels,

I'm surprised, particularly at how well the whites showed: crisp and summery.

Carly Fiorina

We need a different kind of leadership in the White House that understands how to get bureaucracies competent again.

Ernest Thompson Seton

I have only one prejudice in horseflesh - I do not like a white one.

Erin Morgenstern

Is it not that bad to be trapped somewhere, then? Depending on where you're trapped?" "I suppose it depends on how much you like the place you're trapped in," Widget says. "And how much you like whoever you're stuck there with," Poppet adds, kicking his black boot with her white one.

Evan Sayet

Michelle Obama was asked when life begins. According to her it's when she and Barack take over the White House.

Glenn Beck

You have three people in the White House that are in love with eugenics or whatever it is you would call it today.

Jim Butcher

It rained toads the day the White Council came to town.

Jim Butcher

Do you have a little white dress? I've had this deep-seated nurse fantasy about you, Murphy.

Jim Butcher

Nay, but prithee, with sprinkles 'pon it instead," I said solemnly, "and frosting of white.

Jim Butcher

I guess maybe you don’t get to be the Merlin of the White Council by saving up frequent-flier miles

Jim Butcher

Thomas has the kind of whiter-than-white boyish grin that makes women's panties spontaneously evaporate.

Jim Butcher

We've both got into the blue beetle. He got into the red door, I got into the white one.

Jay Leno

The big story now is that President Bush is coming under attack for his service in the National Guard. The White House said, 'no no,' that they have payroll records to show that he served in the National Guard. But today, the commanding officers can't remember seeing Bush between May and October of '72. President Bush said, 'Remember me? I'm the drunk guy. Remember me?'

Jay Leno

John McCain said that Barack Obama is already measuring the drapes in the White House. That's what he said. I understand Sarah Palin is already driving McCain around to look at assisted living facilities.

Jay Leno

Well, Joe Biden has done it again. He showed up at the White House Passover Seder with a bunch of ham sandwiches.

Jay Leno

These White House scandals are not going away anytime soon. People in Kenya are now saying he's 100 percent American. That's how bad it's gotten.

Muriel Spark

It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden.

Mo Udall

One puts on black robes to scare the hell out of white people, while the other puts on white robes to scare the hell out of blacks.

Moby

All of us little bald white guys wearing glasses kind of look the same.