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.

Freddie Mercury

In the early days, we just wore black onstage. Very bold, my dear. Then we introduced white, for variety, and it simply grew and grew.

Chris Rock

I see as white people finding loopholes in the slavery laws.

Chris Rock

People basically aren't that racist. They want their laughs. If I make a white guy laugh, he's gonna come see me. He's not gonna go see the white guy who doesn't make him laugh just because that guy is white.

Chris Rock

Happy white peoples independence day the slaves weren't free but I'm sure they enjoyed fireworks.

Chris Rock

People are always going to, you know, find something wrong with people who are not the exact same as them. That's just what it is. Black, white, short, tall, religions, whatever. People are bad.

Chris Rock

So, to say Barack Obama is progress is saying that he's the first black person that is qualified to be president. That's not black progress. That's white progress.

Gary Owen

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

Christina Rossetti

Faith is like a lily, lifted high and white.

Christian Smith

Evangelicals come from all ethnic and racial backgrounds, but nearly 90 percent of Americans who call themselves evangelicals are white.

Chris Hayes

Now, [Donald] Trump has thus far gotten endorsements from illustrious group, that includes Sarah Palin, David Duke, Dennis Rodman, racially profiling birther sheriff, Joe Arpaio, vaping Congressman Duncan Hunter, and just this afternoon, infamous Maine Governor Paul LePage who accused drug dealers with D-Money, Smoothie and Shifty of impregnating white women.

Chris Hayes

If he [Donald Trump]can boost Mitt Romney`s performance five points among white folks, he could have a shot.

George W. Bush

Globalization has altered the dynamics in the White House, as well as between the White House and the Treasury.

George W. Bush

It's time to restore honor and dignity to the White House.

George W. Bush

I want to tell you how proud I am to be the President of a nation that -- in which there's a lot of Philippine-Americans. They love America and they love their heritage. And I reminded the President that I am reminded of the great talent of the -- of our Philippine-Americans when I eat dinner at the White House.

George R. R. Martin

It was that white cloak that soiled me, not the other way around.

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.

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.