| "Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow-red, yellow, brown, black and white-and we're all precious in God's sight." »Jesse Louis Jackson |
| "A poet's hope to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere." »W. H. Auden |
| "On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the valley of Ambiguity. (Powers of Mind, 1975)" »Adam Smith |
| "Inquisitiveness and strength make me want to rise above my valley-bound brothers. I must reach the summit to see the truth." »Delores Seats |
| "And many strokes, though with a little axe, Hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak." »William Shakespeare |
| "Courage is not the towering oak That sees storms come and go It is the fragile blossom That opens in the snow." »Alice Mackenzie Swaim |
| "In creating, the only hard thing is to begin a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak." »James Russell Lowell |
| "Music has charms to soothe the savage breast To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak." »William Congreve |
| "Away back in that time-in 1492-there was a man by the name of Columbus came from across the great ocean, and he discovered the country for the white man. . . What did he find when he first arrived here Did he find a white man standing on the continent then . . . I stood here first, and Columbus first discovered me." »Chitto Harjo |
| "The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you're really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you've been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain." »Richard Milhous Nixon |
| "And the wind said May you be as strong as the oak, yet flexible as the birch may you stand as tall as the redwood, live gracefully as the willow and may you always bear fruit all your days on this earth." »Native American Prayer |
| "To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be." »Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| "What treaty have the Sioux made with the white man that we have broken Not one. What treaty have the white man ever made with us that they have kept Not one. When I was a boy the Sioux owned the world the sun rose and set on their land they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today Who slew them Where are our lands Who owns them....What law have I broken Is it wrong for me to love my own Is it wicked for me because my skin is red Because I am a Sioux because I was born where my father lived because I would die for my people and my country" »Sitting Bull |
| "Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.N.B. This quote is commonly misquoted as savage beast." »William Congreve |
| "I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the white Citizen's Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to 'order' than to justice who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice who constantly says 'I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action' who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for someone else's freedom who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a 'more convenient season.'" »Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| "A wise old owl sat upon an oak The more he saw the less he spoke The less he spoke the more he heard Why aren't we like that wise old bird" »Edward Hersey Richards |
| "It is not white hair that engenders wisdom." »Menander |
| "A white wall is the fool's paper." »French Proverb |
| "There will be no whitewash in the white House. (On Watergate investigation)" »Richard Milhous Nixon |
| "Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black." »Danish proverb |
| "The white House is the finest prison in the world." »Harry S Truman |
| "It is not growing like a tree in bulk doth make man better be Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere, A lily of a day is fairer in May Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant of flower and light, In small proportions we just beauties see And in short measures, life may perfect be." »Benjamin Johnson |
| "The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches." »e e cummings |
| "Those that think it permissible to tell white lies soon grow color blind." »Austin O'Malley |
| "You couldn't even prove the white House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt." »Ed Meese |
| "It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice." »Deng Xiaoping |
| "There'll be bluebirds over the white cliffs of Dover, Tomorrow, just you wait and see." »Nat Burton |
| "I turned into the helicopter ... the red carpet was rolled up. ... The white House was behind us now." »Richard Milhous Nixon |
| "If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together." »Richard Milhous Nixon |
| "When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray." »Dr. Laura Schlessinger |
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