The Whites
- Thomas White, member of the Maryland Legislature, Delaware Assemblyman, Chief Justice of the Kent County, Delaware Court of Common Pleas; delegate to the Delaware Constitutional Convention 1776 1792. Father of Samuel White.
- Samuel White (1770–1809), U.S. Senator from Delaware 1801-1809. Son of Thomas White.
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Famous quotes containing the word whites:
“If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practise, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is no other practice which so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever- present sense of death life is insipid. You might as well live on the whites of eggs.”
—Muriel Spark (b. 1918)
“I am sorry to say we whites have a sad reputation among many of the Polynesians. The natives of these islands are naturally of a kindly and hospitable temper, but there has been implanted among them an almost instinctive hate of the white man. They esteem us, with rare exceptions, such as some of the missionaries, the most barbarous, treacherous, irreligious, and devilish creatures on the earth.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)