White Cliffs is the name of several localities:
- The White Cliffs of Dover in the South-East of the United Kingdom
- White Cliffs, New South Wales, an opal-mining town in Australia
- White Cliffs Solar Power Station was the main source of electricity in the town for 15 years
- White Cliffs (Utah), a series of cliffs in southern Utah formed from the Navajo Sandstone formation.
Famous quotes containing the words white and/or cliffs:
“And to your more bewitching, see the proud,
Plump bed bear up, and swelling like a cloud,
Tempting the two too modest; can
Ye see it brustle like a swan,
And you be cold
To meet it when it woos and seems to fold
The arms to hug you? Throw, throw
Yourselves into the mighty overflow
Of that white pride, and drown
The night with you in floods of down.”
—Robert Herrick (1591–1674)
“Most of the folktales dealing with the Indians are lurid and romantic. The story of the Indian lovers who were refused permission to wed and committed suicide is common to many places. Local residents point out cliffs where Indian maidens leaped to their death until it would seem that the first duty of all Indian girls was to jump off cliffs.”
—For the State of Iowa, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)