White House Grounds

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

    Sometimes I wake at night in the White House and rub my eyes and wonder if it is not all a dream.
    Grover Cleveland (1837–1908)

    Slavery is no scholar, no improver; it does not love the whistle of the railroad; it does not love the newspaper, the mail-bag, a college, a book or a preacher who has the absurd whim of saying what he thinks; it does not increase the white population; it does not improve the soil; everything goes to decay.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.
    Kahlil Gibran (1883–1931)

    The most disgusting cad in the world is the man who, on grounds of decorum and morality, avoids the game of love. He is one who puts his own ease and security above the most laudable of philanthropies.
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)