“Homesickness is a great teacher. It taught me, during an endless rainy fall, that I came from the arid lands, and like where I came from. I was used to dry clarity and sharpness in the air. I was used to horizons that either lifted into jagged ranges or rimmed the geometrical circle of the flat world. I was used to seeing a long way. I was used to earth colors--tan, rusty red, toned white--and the endless green of Iowa offended me. I was used to a sun that came up over mountains and went down behind other mountains. I missed the color and smell of sagebrush, and the sight of bare ground.” WorldWayLongEarthUsedFallWhiteBehindsSunTeacherSeeingAirLandTaughtColorMountainRedSightGreenSmellCirclesEndlessClarityRangeDryFlatsHorizonOffendedLong WayRainyGreat TeacherIowaHomesicknessSharpness Author:Wallace Stegner
“In the tropics the white feels weakened, or downright weak, whence comes the heightened tendency to outbursts of aggression. People who are polite, modest or even humble in Europe fall easily into a rage here, get into fights, destroy other people. . .” PeopleFeelsFallFightingWhiteEuropeWeakHumbleRageTendenciesAggressionModestPoliteOutburstTropics Author:Ryszard Kapuscinski
“What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive: the white ball sailing up into the sky, reaching its apex, falling and finally dropping to the turf, just the way I planned it.” PeopleWayMayArtFallWhiteSkyBallsGolfFlightReachingMuseumsSailingDroppingTurfApex Author:Arnold Palmer
“All questions about the Self, fall away in the white light of eternity, in nirvana, because then we have awakened from the dream.” SelfDreamLightFallWhiteYogaEternityAwakenedWhite Light Author:Frederick Lenz
“All the concepts, all knowings, all truths, all religous systems, all beliefs, fall away in the white light of eternity.” LightFallBeliefWhiteKnowingYogaConceptsEternityWhite Light Author:Frederick Lenz
“British Israelites: The British Israelites believe the white Anglo-Saxons of Britain to be descended from the ten lost tribes of Israel deported by Sargon of Assyria on the fall of Sumeria in 721 B.C. ... They further believe that the future can be foretold by the measurements of the Great Pyramid, which probably means it will be big and yellow and in the hand of the Arabs. They also believe that if you sleep with your head under the pillow a fairy will come and take all your teeth.” IfsBelieveMeanHandsBigsFallLostSleepWhiteTenHumorousIsraelBritishTeethFairyBritainYellowTribesPillowMeasurementPyramidsAnglo Saxon Author:Mike Harding
“Presently I shall be introduced as 'this venerable old gentleman' and the axe will fall when they raise me to the degree of 'grand old man'. That means on our continent any one with snow-white hair who has kept out of jail till eighty.” MenMeanFallWhiteHairDegreesRaisesSnowGentlemanJailOld ManContinentsEightySnow WhiteWhite Hair Author:Stephen Leacock
“When men were all asleep the snow came flying, In large white flakes falling on the city brown, Stealthily and perpetually settling and loosely lying, Hushing the latest traffic of the drowsy town.” MenLyingFallWhiteCitiesTownsFlyingSnowSettlingBrownTrafficFlakesDrowsy Author:Robert Bridges
“I think everybody has the ability to fall in love with a man or with a woman or a white person or a black person or a Jewish person or a Protestant person or whatever.” ThinkingMenPersonsFallBlackAbilityWhiteFalling In LoveProtestantsBlack Person Author:Ally Sheedy
“The summer lasted a long long time, like verse after verse of a ballad, but when it ended, it ended like a man falling dead in the street of heart trouble. One night, all in one night, severe winter came, a white horse of snow rolling over Bountiful, snorting and rolling in its meadows, its fields.” MenHeartLongNightFallWhiteTroubleStreetsFieldsSummerLong TimeHorseWinterSnowVersesRollingSevereOne NightMeadowsBalladsWhite HorseRolling Over Book:The Peaceable Kingdom Source: The Peaceable Kingdom
“In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls. Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools” FallWaterDarkWhiteBehindsFoolQuietSilentWoodsForestsLeafsLapAntsPolishedDesertedHarbour Book:Cry, the Beloved Country Source: Cry, the Beloved Country
“It was a cold hard easterly morning when he latched the garden gate and turned away. The light snowfall which had feathered his schoolroom windows on the Thursday, still lingered in the air, and was falling white, while the wind blew black.” StillsHardLightFallBlackNatureWhiteMorningAirWindColdGardenWindowGatesThursdaySnowfall Book:Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)
“We live amid falling taboos. In our crowded little hour of history we have seen how the prejudice of religion no longer can bar the way to the White House. Some of you may live to see the day when the prejudice of sex no longer places the Presidency beyond the reach of a greatly gifted American lady. Long before them, I hope you will see a woman member of the Supreme Court of the United States. In Congress and in our State Legislatures we need more women to bring their sensitive experience to the shaping of our decisions.” WayNeedsMayLittlesLongStatesFallHousePoliticsSexWomenHoursWhiteDecisionUnitedUnited StatesMembersPrejudiceCourtCongressSupremeBarsSensitiveWhite HouseGiftedPresidencySupreme CourtCrowdedTabooLegislatureState Legislatures Author:Lyndon B. Johnson