Eb White Quotes

If God can't get the attention of the church house, He's certainly not going to stop by the White House.

O beautiful white land, olives and wild anemone and violet mingled among the shale, and purple wings of little winter-butterflies say, here Psyche, the soul, lies.

So Pa sold the little house. He sold the cow and calf. He made hickory bows and fastened them upright to the wagon box. Ma helped him stretch white canvas over them.

...They cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow.

Ray Charles, who said to Stevie Wonder, Maybe we're white. Never got a dinner!

George Bush doesn't care about black people... They're saying black families are looting and white families are just looking for food... they're giving the (Army) permission to shoot us.

Why is it that it's okay to call a white person "mate" yet it's not okay to call a black guy "primate"?

White pants should be worn on two occasions: One, never. And two, if you're selling ice cream.

I hear that whenever someone in the White House tells a lie, Nixon gets a royalty.

That's how I always want to remember my time with you. Like a pure white light, breathtaking to behold.

The White House is dismissing these town hall fireworks as AstroTurf movements which means it's the opposite of a true grass roots movement.

An egg white omelet with vegetables is one of my favorite breakfasts.

Black lives matter. White lives matter. Asian lives matter. Hispanic lives matter. That's anti-American and it's racist.

Let me just say, at once: I am not now nor have I ever been a white man. And, leaving aside the joys of unearned privilege, this leaves me feeling pretty good.

... we ought even to hold as a fixed principle that what I see white I believe to be black, if the superior authorities define it to be so.

I have Indian Blood in me. I have just enough white blood for you to question my honesty!

I understand that life is not black and white, everything has a different hand, lots of them, I act according to the situation.

Literature is one of the few areas left where black and white feel some identity of purpose; we all struggle under censorship.

Actually, if you could see close in my eyes, the American flag is waving in both of them and up my spine is growing this red, white and blue stripe.

Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of eternity.

I've always thought of the T-shirt as the Alpha and Omega of the fashion alphabet, ... The White T.

That orbed maiden, with white fire laden, Whom mortals call the moon.

The white savior supports brutal policies in the morning, founds charities in the afternoon, and receives awards in the evening.

A white lie is always pardonable. But he who tells the truth without compulsion merits no leniency.

If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position.

For a woman who lived in the dark it was enough if she had a faint, white face -a full body was unnecessary.

When they learn of Shakespeare and Goethe, we must teach them of Pushkin and Dumas. . . . Whatever the white man has done, we have done, and often better.

There are only two colors to paint a boat, black or white, and only a fool would paint a boat black.

So why would I want to call myself a conservative after the way them white racist thugs have used that word to hide behind? They call themselves new Republicans.

Showtime has given new, young filmmakers - black, white, across the board - an opportunity to make films, as well as actors who want to cross over into directing.

His kiss was like white lightning, a flash that spread, and spread again, and stayed.

President Obama invited John McCain to the White House to give his opinion on Egypt, specifically what it's like to be a mummy.

Perfect sandwich? Two slices of white bread, mustard, mayo and a platinum American Express card.

When you see a white guy at three in the morning on your beat in an alley, you kind of - "What's this guy doing here?"

I like Jailhouse Rock and Love Me Tender. The black-and-white films. With music, I tend more toward the '70s stuff because I was at the shows for those, so they bring back memories.

There is no such thing as white lies; a lie is as black as a coalpit, and twice as foul.

Callista Gingrich. Karen Santorum. Ann Romney. Now do you really think our country is ready for a white first lady?

The instruction of the foolish is a waste of knowledge; soap cannot wash charcoal white.

The most ordinary Negro is a distinct gentleman, but it takes extraordinary training and opportunity to make the average white man anything but a hog.

Over the tops of it, beginning to dusk under a young white moon, trailed a wavering ghost of smoke, and at the end of it I came upon the Pocket Hunter making a dry camp in the friendly scrub.

I have never felt the pain of not being white the way I've felt it since I've been a public figure/part of this entertainment industry.

I am sentimental,’ she said. ‘I could dissect a koala but not its baby. I like the words damozel, eglantine, elegant. I love when you kiss my elongated white hand.

When we go to war I will not ask the White Racist next to me what is he Christian or Atheist? I will only expect him or her to kill the enemy as I will.

We heard of White & Green Revolution but now we need a Blue Revolution & harness the potential in fisheries sector.

By the way, Santa just is white.

White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.

It's time to take the 'Men Only' sign off the White House door.

I believe that the black-and-white photograph, or rather the gray zones in the black-and-white photograph, stand for this territory that is located between life and death.

There is just one rule about boxing: never bet on the white guy.

I've never seen anyone more messed up over success than Richard Pryor. For him, it's a constant battle between success in the white world and keeping it real for his black self.