White Pass Route

Famous quotes containing the words white, pass and/or route:

    “I think one of the nicest things that we created as a generation was just the fact that we could say, Hey, I don’t like white people.”
    —Nikki Giovanni (b. 1943)

    “An ancient prophecy ... pronounced, That the castle and lordship of Otranto should pass from the present family, whenever the real owner should be grown too large to inhabit it!”
    —Horace Walpole (1717–1797)

    “By a route obscure and lonely,
    Haunted by ill angels only,
    Where an eidolon, named Night,
    On a black throne reigns upright,
    I have reached these lands but newly
    From an ultimate dim Thule—
    From a wild weird clime that lieth, sublime,
    Out of space—out of time.”
    —Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)