White Plains

White Plains may refer to:

Places
  • White Plains, New York
  • White Plains, Georgia
  • White Plains, Kentucky
  • White Plains, Maryland
  • White Plains, North Carolina
  • White Plains (Springville, South Carolina), listed on the NRHP in South Carolina
  • White Plains (Putnam County, Tennessee), listed on the NRHP in Tennessee
Military
  • USS White Plains (CVE-66), an Escort Aircraft Carrier in service from 1943 to 1946, and notable for action in the Battle off Samar
  • USS White Plains (AFS-4), a Combat Stores Ship in service from 1968 to 1995
  • Battle of White Plains, a battle near White Plains, New York during the American Revolutionary War
Music
  • White Plains (band), a British pop music band

Famous quotes containing the words white and/or plains:

    “But seldom the laurel wreath is seen
    Unmixed with pensive pansies dark;
    There’s a light and a shadow on every man
    Who at last attains his lifted mark—
    Nursing through night the ethereal spark.
    Elate he never can be;
    He feels that spirits which glad had hailed his worth,
    Sleep in oblivion.—The shark
    Glides white through the phosphorus sea.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “The Plains are not forgiving. Anything that is shallow—the easy optimism of a homesteader; the false hope that denies geography, climate, history; the tree whose roots don’t reach ground water—will dry up and blow away.”
    —Kathleen Norris (b. 1947)