Famous quotes containing the words white house, white, house and/or chief:
“Sometimes I wake at night in the White House and rub my eyes and wonder if it is not all a dream.”
—Grover Cleveland (18371908)
“Then came the Lord Chamberlain with his white staff,
And all the people began to laugh;
And then the Queen began to speak,
Youre welcome home, Sir Francis Drake.”
—Unknown. Upon Sir Francis Drakes Return from His Voyage about the World, and the Queens Meeting Him (l. 58)
“The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She cant help itcant help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it.”
—Marguerite Duras (b. 1914)
“Youre wounded! Nay, his soldiers pride
Touched to the quick, he said:
Im killed, Sire! And his Chief beside,
Smiling the boy fell dead.”
—Robert Browning (18121889)