Famous quotes containing the words white, persons and/or born:
“I know thee not, old man. Fall to thy prayers.
How ill white hairs becomes a fool and jester!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Love or hatred must constantly increase between two persons who are always together; every moment fresh reasons are found for loving or hating better.”
—Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)
“Poor John Field!—I trust he does not read this, unless he will improve by it,—thinking to live by some derivative old-country mode in this primitive new country.... With his horizon all his own, yet he a poor man, born to be poor, with his inherited Irish poverty or poor life, his Adam’s grandmother and boggy ways, not to rise in this world, he nor his posterity, till their wading webbed bog-trotting feet get talaria to their heels.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)