White Persons Born

Famous quotes containing the words white, persons and/or born:

“The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism; it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens.”
—Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)

“One of the dangers of the American artist is that he finds himself almost exclusively thrown in with persons more or less in the arts. He lives among them, eats among them, quarrels with them, marries them.”
—Thornton Wilder (1897–1975)

“I was born and have ever remaind [sic] in the most humble walks of life.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)