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White Quotes by Sylvia Plath
- I shall never get out of this! There are two of me now: This new absolutely white person and the old yellow one, And the…
- The sickness rolled through me in great waves. After each wave it would fade away and leave me limp as a wet leaf and shivering…
- The moon, too, abases her subjects, but in the daytime she is ridiculous. Your dissatisfactions, on the other hand, arrive through the mailslot with loving…
- The lyric abstrusities of Auden ring mystically down the circular canals of my ear and it begins to look like snow. The good gray conservative…
- But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defenseless that I couldn't do it.
- I saw the days of the year stretching ahead like a series of bright, white boxes, and separating one box from another was sleep, like…
- This is newness: every little tawdry Obstacle glass-wrapped and peculiar, Glinting and clinking in a saint's falsetto. Only you Don't know what to make of…
- But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defensless that I couldn't do it. It was…
- I had always imagined myself hitching up on to my elbows on the delivery table after it was all over - dead white, of course,…
- A dispassionate white sun shone at the summit of the sky. I wanted to hone myself on it till I grew saintly and thin and…
- I am learning peacefulness, lying by myself quietly, as the light lies on these white walls, this bed, these hands. I am nobody; I have…
- When I was nineteen, pureness was the great issue. Instead of the world being divided up into Catholics and Protestants or Republicans and Democrats or…
- The future is what matters — because one never reaches it, but always stays in the present — like the White Queen who had to…
- The lawn was white with doctors
- The moon is no door. It is a face in its own right, White as a knuckle and terribly upset. It drags the sea after…
- As I lay on my back in bed staring up at the blank, white ceiling the stillness seemed to grow bigger and bigger until I…
More White Quotes
- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer. — Neil Armstrong
- I'm substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House… — Neil Armstrong
- Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s. — Dan Aykroyd
- It would be fun to have someone in the White House who has worked in the private sector... and someone who understands… — Michele Bachmann
- I believe if the white and colored people could get together and be let alone, they would understand each other and consequently… — Josephine Baker
- American foreign policy had still not recovered from its victory over communism when George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice took over at… — Russell Baker
- It is fitting that yesteryear's swashbuckling newspaper reporter has turned into today's solemn young sobersides nursing a glass of watered white wine… — Russell Baker
- The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions. — James A. Baldwin
- Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black. — James A. Baldwin
- The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever. — James A. Baldwin
- True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white… — Honore de Balzac