Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jose Antonio Vargas

America is White and Black and Latino and Asian. America is mixed. America is immigrants.

Kenneth Grahame

Footprints in the snow have been unfailing provokers of sentiment ever since snow was first a white wonder in this drab-coloured world of ours.

Kathy Reichs

Chance wore a white tuxedo with tails. On anyone else? Doopy. On him? Yes, please.

Jonathan Raban

Every White House has had its intellectuals, but very few presidents have been intellectuals themselves - Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Woodrow Wilson, the list more or less stops there.

Jonathan Raban

It's been so long since a talented writer last occupied the White House; no wonder, then, that American writers have been among the most prominent of all the demographic groups claiming a piece of Barack Obama for themselves.

Narendra Modi

We led the industrial revolution, the White revolution, now its time for a cultural revolution.

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.

Ellen Goodman

Today Washington is our Hollywood, the Senate our Warner Bros., the White House our Beverly Hills. People who never read a line of a movie magazine deal with the lives of leaders as if they were Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.

Ellen DeGeneres

I'm sure there's somebody out there who doesn't like Betty White because she's short and has white hair.

Emily Dickinson

Dare you see a Soul at the White Heat?

Hedy Lamarr

Experts always know everything but the fine points. When I took my citizenship exams, no one there knew how the White House came to be called the White House.

Hazel Scott

There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

Henry Ward Beecher

We may cover a multitude of sins with the white robe of charity.

Helen Thomas

I got into the Kennedy White House because at the time I was president of the Women's National Press Club, and they assigned me to cover the early days of the Kennedy campaign. Jackie especially. Everyone was interested in the family.

Helen Thomas

I've always felt privileged to cover the White House and to have that ringside seat to history

Helena Bonham Carter

I've never had white teeth. To be honest, I've never been told to do any of those horrible things - get your teeth whitened or your nose straightened.

Helen Fielding

I come from Yorkshire in England where we like to eat chip sandwiches - white bread, butter, tomato ketchup and big fat french fries cooked in beef dripping.

Eric Liu

Today's multiracial Americans are at greater liberty to choose how they'd like to be seen, and under less pressure to pass for white.

Heidi Klum

I'm not white-picket-fence perfect.

John McCain

Do we really want another politician in the White House America can't trust?

John Irving

She sat keenly white and still among them, a witness to everything--maybe determining nothing, possibly judging it all.

John Hersey

The third stage was the reaction that came when the body struggled to compensate for its ills - when, for instance, the white count not only returned to normal but increased to much higher than normal levels.

John Henrik Clarke

I question the political judgement of those who would have the nerve to paint Christ white with his obvious African nose, lips and wooly hair.

Ayn Rand

She knew that she could not have reached this white serenity except as the sum of all the colors, of all the violence she had known.

Eleanor Clift

At the unveiling at the White House of the presidential portrait, President Bush pointed out that Hillary Clinton was the first sitting Senator in history to have her portrait hanging in the White House.