Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

I know what’s best for the President. I put him in the White house. He does well when he listens to me and poorly when he does not.

Fefe Dobson

I would love to work with Jack White or Kanye West.

Federico Garcia Lorca

The bride, the white bride today a maiden, tomorrow a wife.

Eve Ensler

We live in a racist world. Everywhere there is racism. We say to White people, "You really have to examine how you behave in the world. You are responsible for deconstructing internalized racism and being part of a ongoing process of decolonizing yourself."

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.

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.

Gene Simmons

My sense is that file sharing started in predominantly white, middle- and upper-middle-cl ass young people who were native-born, who felt they were entitled to have something for free, because that's what they were used to.

Frederick Douglass

It is the mission of the printer to diffuse light and knowledge by a judicious intermingling of black with white.

Fergie

I love black truffles. I love white truffles.

Flannery O'Connor

The trees were full of silver-white sunlight and the meanest of them sparkled.

Henry Louis Gates

You notice patterns. White guests often are mortified - that word again - when they learn their ancestors owned slaves. But I've never had a black guest who was upset to learn about white ancestry that probably involved forced sexual relations.

Henry Louis Gates

The Western stereotype of Africa and its black citizens as devoid of reason and, therefore, subhuman was often shared by white master and black ex-slave alike.

Henry Louis Gates

It's no surprise that White people say things when they are together about Black people.

Henry Louis Gates

In America one drop of black ancestry makes you black. In Brazil, it's almost as if one drop of white ancestry makes you white.

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~

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.