Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeff Gannon

All my stories were usually titled, 'White House Says,' 'President Bush Wants,' and I relied on transcripts from the briefings. I relied on press releases that were sent to the press for the purpose of accurately portraying what the White House believed or wanted.

Jeff Foxworthy

I had to perform at the White House for the president, That's always kind of a weird set to try to put together.

Jeff Foxworthy

If your thighs look like the hood of a white Toyota minivan after a hailstorm, you aren't juicy.

James Cameron

God wears white flannels.

James A. Baldwin

Each of us, helplessly and forever, contains the other-male in female, female in male, white in black, and black in white. We are part of each other. Many of my countrymen appear to find this fact exceedingly inconvenient and even unfair, and so, very often, do I. But none of us can do anything about it.

James A. Baldwin

This world is white no longer, and it will never be white again.

James A. Baldwin

Whatever white people do not know about Negroes reveals, precisely and inexorably, what they do not know about themselves.

James A. Baldwin

White people...have quite enough to do in learning how to accept and love themselves and each other, and when they have achieved this -- which will not be tomorrow and may very well be never -- the Negro problem will no longer exist, for it will no longer be needed.

James A. Baldwin

The American idea of racial progress is measured by how fast I become white.

Jackie Kennedy

Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?

Fulton J. Sheen

The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.

Franklin Pierce

After the White House what is there to do but drink?

Jennifer Granholm

I really want to be governor when I have a partner in the White House.

George Weinberg

I'm really not an avowed heterosexual. I'm no more proud of it than of being white or tall.

Jim Hightower

What's new is that the White House itself has now been corporatized. It's not politicians working for the corporate interests. They are the corporate interests. That's where Bush came from, and Cheney and Rumsfeld.

Eminem

I would love it if, even for one day, you could walk through a neighborhood and see an Asian guy sitting on his stoop, then you look across the street and see a black guy and a white guy sitting on their porches, and a Mexican dude walking by.

Eminem

I try not to look at it that way. Being white. I don't wake up every day and look in the mirror, 'Oh. I'm white'.

Eminem

I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I'm not ashamed of anything.

Hillary Clinton

I have a lifetime of experience that I will bring to the White House. I know Senator McCain has a lifetime of experience that he will bring to the White House. And Senator Obama has a speech he gave in 2002.

Hillary Clinton

We used to say in the White House that if a place is too dangerous, too small or too poor, send the First Lady.

Hillary Clinton

We came out of the White House not only dead broke, but in debt.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

For the moment I can only cry out that I have lost my splendid mirage. Come back, come back, O glittering and white!

Ernest Hemingway

Life is the best left hooker I ever saw, although some say it was Charlie White of Chicago

Ethel Waters

The white audiences thought I was white, my features being what they are, and at every performance I'd have to take off my gloves to prove I was a spade.

Ethel Waters

There is a certain type of white Southerner who respects certain Negro individuals.

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.

Gary Owen

Even if its a white crowd, I tell my jokes for the four black people in the room, not the 100 whites.