Famous Quotes & Sayings

George MacDonald

Joy cannot unfold the deepest truths. Cometh white-robed Sorrow, stooping and wan, and flingeth wide the door she must not enter.

Katherine Anne Porter

[Marriage] is the merciless revealer, the great white searchlight turned on the darkest places of human nature.

Katherine Anne Porter

God does not know whether a skin is black or white, He sees only souls.

Karrine Steffans

I don't even listen to hip-hop anymore. All my friends are white and over 40.

Langston Hughes

These feet have walked ten thousand miles working for white folks and another ten thousand keeping up with colored.

Langston Hughes

Everybody should take each other as they are, white, black, Indians, Creole. Then there would be no prejudice, nations would get along.

John Kasich

I've heard a lot of nasty rhetoric about the president. We're going to kick your rear end out of the White House and stuff. That's just not the way I behave.

Lyndon B. Johnson

You know when you're milking a cow and you have all that foamy white milk in the bucket and you're just about through, when all of a sudden the cow switches her tail through a pile of manure and slaps it into that foamy white milk. That's Bill Fulbright.

Lucas Grabeel

I was just passing buy some racks of socks and remembered I needed some. So I picked 'em up. 1 black, 2 grey and 3 white pairs.

Louis Armstrong

White folks still in the lead.

Lord Byron

Champagne with its foaming whirls/As white as Cleopatra's pearls.

M. Night Shyamalan

This is the problem with being Indian. It's hard to be one of the family members. Everybody is white usually [in the movie].

Lorde

I'll let you in on something big: I'm not a white-teeth teen.

Lord Chesterfield

Assurance and intrepidity, under the white banner of seeming modesty, clear the way to merit that would otherwise be discouraged by difficulties.

Gail Carriger

The important question is, what will your wear for a wedding dress, Alexia? You look horrible in white.

Frida Kahlo

Sexism and racism are parallel problems. You can compare them in some ways, but they're not at all the same. But they're both symptoms inside the white male power structure.

Justin Bieber

you know...uh I'm a singer... pop singer... i'm white

Juan Gris

I make a composition with a white and a black, and make adjustments when the white has become a paper and the black a shadow.

Juan Goytisolo

And it is because a series of elements in Spanish life which operate today the same way as they did in the times of Blanco White made obvious my relationship with him, based on a similarity in Spain's condition.

Karl Lagerfeld

Black, like white, is the best color!

Julius Charles Hare

The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impressions it receives the oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones.

Joycelyn Elders

Doctor, I have more education than most white people.

Kathryn Stockett

Because ain’t that white people for you, wondering if they are happy enough.

Kathryn Stockett

Cause everbody care. Black, white, deep down we all do.

Kathryn Stockett

Everyone knows how we white people feel, the glorified Mammy figure who dedicates her whole life to a white family. Margaret Mitchell covered that. But no one ever asked Mammy how she felt about it.

Kathryn Stockett

I wait on white ladies who walk right out the bedroom wearing nothing but they personality...

Kanye West

I don't know if this is statistically right, but I'm assuming I have the most Grammys of anyone my age, but I haven't won one against a white person.

June Jordan

Lately... Americans have begun to understand that trouble does not start somewhere on the other side of town. It seems to originate inside the absolute middle of the homemade cherry pie. In our history, the state has failed to respond to the weak. You could be white, male, Presbyterian and heterosexual besides, but if you get fired or if you get sick tomorrow, you might as well be Black, for all the state will want to hear from you.

Maggie Stiefvater

Face flushed, I shook my head and stared at my white-knuckled grip on the bed. Of all my pet peeves, condescending adults were probably at the top of the list.

Gustave Flaubert

The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism; it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens.

Matt Tong

I'm not excited when bands strip things down. I'm not excited by the White Stripes.

Max Cleland

The commission had to subpoena the F.A.A. for documents, had to subpoena NORAD for documents and they will never get the full story. That is one of the tragedies. One of these days we will have to get the full story because the 9-11 issue is so important to America. But this White House wants to cover it up.

Matthew Perry

I've been on a show before where I was on a billboard and then, after like three or four weeks, they took the billboard down and replaced it with nothing. Took my face down and put a white board up.