White House Grounds

Famous quotes containing the words white, house and/or grounds:

    “You are as gold
    as the half-ripe grain
    that merges to gold again.
    as white as the white rain....”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    “You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it—low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion—and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national. The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.”
    —Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)

    “Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.”
    —Samuel Butler (1835–1902)