White Eye Patch

Famous quotes containing the words white, eye and/or patch:

“When white men were willing to put their own offspring in the kitchen and corn field and allowed them to be sold into bondage as slaves and degraded them as another man’s slave, the retribution of wrath was hanging over this country and the South paid penance in four years of bloody war.”
—Rebecca Latimer Felton (1835–1930)

“It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.”
—Bible: New Testament Jesus, in Matthew, 19:24.

“I sing a hero’s head, large eye
And bearded bronze, but not a man,

Although I patch him as I can
And reach through him almost to man.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)