Famous quotes containing the words white, embroidered and/or single:
“Joseph and his mother come from the
black kings who were before the white man.”
—Peter Abrahams (b. 1919)
“An embroidered pillow may be stuffed with straw.”
—Chinese proverb.
“After that came commencement day—that great day for which all other days were made. And it went. And that night I felt of myself all over, and to my astonishment, I found ‘twas the same old Rud. Not a single cubit added to my stature; not a hair’s breadth to my girth. If anything, on the contrary, I felt more lank and gaunt than common, much as if a load were off my stomach.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)