Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jerry Brown

A lot of street crime is horrible, but in terms of the dislocation, the undermining of the family - the corporate criminals, many of whom reside in Congress and the White House - are getting away literally with murder.

Glenn Reynolds

But remember: All this talk of tolerance and diversity is basically just a way for one group of white people to pursue power over other groups of white people. It's not about actually helping anyone.

George Washington

Being a politician makes your hair turn white.

George McGovern

I wish I had known more firsthand about the concerns and problems of American businesspeople while I was a U.S. senator and later a presidential nominee. That knowledge would have made me a better legislator and a more worthy aspirant to the White House.

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.

James Cromwell

There is something intrinsically, systemically wrong with white, western culture, and if we don't fix it, it won't continue.

Helen Keller

Everybody talks, nobody listens. Good listeners are as rare as white crows.

Cassandra Clare

Please don’t do this—don’t do this to me. If anything happened to you—” He looked at her with surprise. There was already a red stain on the white bandages that wrapped his chest, where his movements had pulled his wound open. “I…” “What?” “I’m not used to you loving me,” he said.

Cassandra Clare

Alec watched them through the half-open door, Jace leaned against the sink as his adoptive sister sponged his wrists and wrapped them in a white gauze. “Okay, now take off your shirt.” (Isabelle) “I knew there was something in this for you.” (Jace) ~pg. 329~

Homer

I'm a white male, age 18 to 49. Everyone listens to me, no matter how dumb my suggestions are.

Eric Carmen

If I could take one thing back, it would be those white suits,

Steven Morrissey

Young bones groan And the rocks below say, "Throw your white body down!" But I'm going to meet the one I love At last

Sue Monk Kidd

Up until then I'd thought that white people and colored people getting along was the big aim, but after that I decided everybody being colorless together was a better plan. I thought of that policeman, Eddie Hazelwurst, saying I'd lowered myself to be in this house of colored women, and for the very life of me I couldn't understand how it had turned out this way, how colored women had become the lowest ones on the totem pole. You only had to look at them to see how special they were, like hidden royalty among us. Eddie Hazelwurst. What a shitbucket.

Strom Thurmond

The white people of the South are the greatest minority in this nation. They deserve consideration and understanding instead of the persecution of twisted propaganda.

Richard Shelby

It has become increasingly clear to me that the White House is not interested in good-faith negotiations.

Richard Armitage

Secretary Clinton has dramatically changed the face of U.S. foreign policy globally for the good. But I wish she had been unleashed more by the White House.

Sammy Davis, Jr.

All I really had was my talent. Without that I wouldn't be welcome at the White House.

John Berger

I use charcoal a lot. Partly because it has such a fantastic range but also because it is very easy to erase. For me, drawing is a lot to do with taking out, with returning to the white of the paper.

Joel Fuhrman

Most brown bread is merely white bread with a fake tan.

Joan Rivers

On the Vanna White diet, you only eat what you can spell.

Jimmy Fallon

Even the White House is weighing in on the deflate-gate scandal. Yesterday they encouraged Tom Brady to 'be mindful of the way he serves as a role model.' And then President Obama stuffed out his cigarette and went golfing at noon on a weekday.

Jimmy Fallon

Yesterday, the White House confirmed that President Obama will meet with Pope Francis during his visit in September. Some experts are wondering if they'll discuss their disagreement over contraception. Then Joe Biden said, 'I didn't even know they were dating.'

Jimmy Fallon

A group called Draft Biden 2016 has started selling bumper stickers that say 'I'm ridin' with Biden.' It's a lot better than the other one that women around the White House have started using - 'I'm hidin' from Biden.'

Jimmy Fallon

A massive power outage in Washington, D.C., today affected a number of federal buildings, including the White House. When asked when they could restore power to the White House, officials said, '2016?'

Georg Trakl

When we are thirsty, we drink the white waters of the pool, the sweetness of our mournful childhood.

George Clooney

I'm really white trash.

Gayle King

I grew up in an all-white community.

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.