Famous quotes containing the words white, house and/or chief:
“Heaven has its business and earth has its business: those are two separate things. Heaven, thats the angels pasture; they are happy; they dont have to fret about food and drink. And you can be sure that they have black angels to do the heavy work like laundering the clouds or sweeping the rain and cleaning the sun after a storm, while the white angels sing like nightingales all day long or blow in those little trumpets like they show in the pictures we see in church.”
—Jacques Roumain (19071945)
“I dwell in a lonely house I know
That vanished many a summer ago....”
—Robert Frost (18741963)
“Wholl be chief mourner?
I, said the dove,
Ill mourn for my love,
Ill be chief mourner.”
—Mother Goose (fl. 17th18th century. Who killed Cock Robin? (L. 3336)