Famous quotes containing the words white man, white, man and/or sleeps:
“Joseph and his mother come from the
black kings who were before the white man.”
—Peter Abrahams (b. 1919)
“Let us then suppose the Mind to be, as we say, white Paper, void of all Characters, without any Ideas; How comes it to be furnished...? To this I answer, in one word, From Experience: In that, all our Knowledge is founded; and from that it ultimately derives it self.”
—John Locke (1632–1704)
“Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.”
—Jean De La Bruyère (1645–1696)
“How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank!
Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music
Creep in our ears. Soft stillness and the night
Become the touches of sweet harmony.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)