Retained World Colored

Famous quotes containing the words retained, world and/or colored:

    “Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.”
    —Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)

    “There will be a world of water shed
    Upon the parting of your wives and you.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “If a liberal policy towards the late Rebels is adopted, the ultra Republicans are opposed to it; if the colored people are honored, the extremists of the other wing cry out against it. I suspect I am right in both cases.”
    —Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)