White Ancestry

Famous quotes containing the words white and/or ancestry:

“The houses are haunted
By white night-gowns.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

“I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule.”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)