Quotes of: White-house Keyword

(Billy) Graham went through passages of hypochondria and his closest friends had to assure him that he was not about to die.

The Preacher and the Presidents: Billy Graham in the White House

It's really weird because my house is very ornate, but my writing lair is very, very blank. It's white, the furniture is white. It gives me nothing to look at, so I just have to concentrate!

Jane Goldman

My reading of American religious history is that religion always functions best from the margins of society and not in the councils of power. Once you identify the faith with a particular candidate or party or with the quest for political influence, ...

God in the White House: A History: How Faith Shaped the Presidency from John F. Kennedy to George W. Bush

The over-weight and out of shape guy who owned the house had apparently decided that having a half-million dollar house meant that he couldn’t afford to hire someone to clean out his gutters. Now he was dead with what looked to me like a broken nec...

My Life as a White Trash Zombie

Conflicting stories continue to circulate concerning the death of the President. A second White House announcement has now called attention to the President's schedule for the day, pointing out that no mention is made there of dying. Also released wa...

Our Gang

Eva: White people wanting respect like they deserve it for free. Erin Gruwell: I'm a teacher, it doesn't matter what color I am. Eva: It's all about color, it's about people deciding what you deserve, about people wanting what they don't deserve. Abo...

Freedom Writers

When the president of the United States flicks the switch to light up the Christmas tree on the White House lawn, that house ceases to be an American symbol; it becomes a Christian symbol.

DEBORAH, GOLDA AND ME

I found that there is very little interest in Washington for true election reform. That neither the White House nor either house of the Congress seems to be as committed to guaranteeing democratic participation in this country as we seem to be in oth...

DeForest Soaries

You don't need to know who's playing on the White House tennis court to be a good president.

James Baker

There are generally three kinds of people in the world. People who make things happen, people who watch things happen, and people who say, what in the heck happened.

This Is Herman Cain!: My Journey to the White House

Oh,' said a very white body as it threw a wrist watch to the ground which broke without attracting anyone's attention, 'Oh, how can anyone not love poetry, natural machines, large white houses, the brilliance of steel, crimes and wild passions?

Robert Desnos

There isn't any one material that's mine. It all depends on the context. For example, I did a house that had the most exquisite marble applications. That sounds ostentatious, but it wasn't, given the context. The color white I subscribe to extensivel...

Annabelle Selldorf

The first time I had a baked potato, I was eight years old at a friend's house. Most white kids growing up have a baked potato every day. I didn't even know what to do with it, how to open it. I was the only white kid in high school eating octopus.

Scott Fujita

Someone could cut through the mess in our house and look at it like one might look at rings on a tree or layers of sediment. They'd find the black-and-white hairs of a dog we had when I was six, the acid-washed jeans my mother once wore, the seven bl...

White Cat

The last fight for the white metal is to be made here in this country and in this House, my friends.

Richard Parks Bland

There is absolutely zero chance that ObamaCare will be repealed while Democrats control the Senate and President Obama is in the White House.

Juan Williams

Sometimes I wake at night in the White House and rub my eyes and wonder if it is not all a dream.

Grover Cleveland

Any time you've got both the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, you're not long for the White House.

Michael Moore

To be honest, I haven't seen much serious budget planning since the Republicans took control of the House after the 2010 elections and grabbed onto the Senate filibuster. It's not the White House's fault that John Boehner couldn't deliver on a bigger...

Gail Collins

Reparations, I believe, are talked about for political reasons, trying to cater for the purpose of getting votes. If Congress was serious about reparations - in '93 and '94 the Democrats controlled the House, the Senate and the White House, and not o...

J. C. Watts

Jack Kennedy brought an "intense concentration" and a "gently teasing humor" to the dinner table, along with what Katherine Graham called his habit of "vacuum cleaning your brain.

Grace and Power: The Private World of the Kennedy White House