Famous quotes containing the words white, house and/or chief:
“Supererogatory divinations one is
lured on by!
The routine
is decent. As if the white page
were a clean tablecloth ...”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“Platonic England, house of solitudes,
rests in its laurels and its injured stone,”
—Geoffrey Hill (b. 1932)
“The chief lesson of the Depression should never be forgotten. Even our liberty-loving American people will sacrifice their freedom and their democratic principles if their security and their very lives are threatened by another breakdown of our free enterprise system. We can no more afford another general depression than we can afford another total war, if democracy is to survive.”
—Agnes E. Meyer (1887–1970)