Eb White Quotes

It is the mission of the printer to diffuse light and knowledge by a judicious intermingling of black with white.

When I was knowingly misled but only learned that much later, that's really when I started to become disillusioned at the White House.

I don't like top hats, white ties, and tails.

As press secretary, I spent countless hours defending the administration from the podium in the White House briefing room.

Life is a little different from what you would read in the mainstream media inside the White House.

The President needs me at the White House. It's autumn, you know, and the leaves need raking.

Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men.

The dumbest question I was ever asked by a sportswriter was whether I hit harder with red or white gloves. As a matter of fact, I hit harder with red.

In the season of white wild roses We two went hand in hand: But now in the ruddy autumn Together already we stand.

Nothing is black-and-white, except for winning and losing, and maybe that’s why people gravitate to that so much.

My clothes are predominately black and my home is predominantly white.

FDR had been Assistant Secretary of the Navy. They told me, now forgotten, just how many pictures of ships they took out of the White House after he died. But he could choose good men.

I could see myself in a white nurse's uniform, working unnoticed for many years and at last dying, unknown, unmarried and unsung.

I was a psych major in college and I actually owned two white lab rats. I had to train them and I took them home so that's just kind of missing for me.

WORK ON YOUR STORY! He/she who has the best story wins! In life! In business! The White House!

Jesse has a new dog. You may have noticed that his former pets have been peculiarly unfortunate. When this dog dies every employee in the White House will be at once discharged.

Hawthorn, white and odorous with blossom, framing the quiet fields, and swaying flowers and grasses, and the hum of bees.

I am that last, that final thing, the body in a white sheet listening.

After years in white theaters I dreaded working in colored houses. The noise, the stomping, whistling, and cheering that hadn't annoyed me when I was young was now something I dreaded.

I feel you see every crack and bruise with black and white [pictiures] and color distracts usually from the honesty.

I have only one prejudice in horseflesh - I do not like a white one.

...one sees differently with color photography than black-and-white... in short, visualization must be modified by the specific nature of the equipment and materials being used.

Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse.

It's a new era at Disney. From now on, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs will be known as Person of No Color and the Seven Vertically Challenged Individuals.

I try not to look at it that way. Being white. I don't wake up every day and look in the mirror, 'Oh. I'm white.'

Wearing the white flower of a blameless life, Before a thousand peering littlenesses, In that fierce light which beats upon a throne, And blackens every blot.

The egg is white though the hen is black as coal...Out of evil comes good, through the great goodness of God.

[My grandparents] were from Texas. El Paso. White trash.

No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.

Being black or white isn't an accomplishment. What you do with your life - or what you accomplish with your life - dictates what you should be proud of.

If White men were not complaining, it would be an indication we weren't succeeding and making the inroads that we are.

He musta thought it was white boy day. It ain't white boy day, is it?

White supremacy has taught white people to be racially, culturally, & politically illiterate.

Larry Bird is overrated in a lot of areas. ... Why does he get so much publicity? Because he's white. You never hear about a black player being the greatest.

Besides paid white laborers, there was everywhere a class of white servants bound without wages for a term of years, and a more miserable class of Negro slaves.

You've been reading Gordan's book again, haven't you?" "It's a white-knuckle roller-coaster ride," she mumbled.

Photo of boy with white dirt on his faceYou may be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll get run over.

With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stockbroker, can gain a reputation for being civilized

Relations between black and white would be greatly improved if we were more accepting of our fears and our feelings and more vocal about it.

Black for hunting through the night For death and sorrow, the color’s white Gold for a bride in her wedding gown, And red to call enchantment down.

Paper is like Joyce Carol Oates: white.

I've always hated being hemmed in or seeing anybody being hemmed in. Even when I was the smallest child, I couldn't bear being told I couldn't drink at a so-called white drinking fountain.

[I normally go-to] whiskey on the rocks. Or a beer. Or with dinner, a glass of white wine.

Oh -- who's the Queen?" "Her, of course. The White Queen. You're just like Alice, you know. Down the rabbit hole with the Mad Hatter.

I'm the only person on Earth who's not afraid to admit that black people are better dancers than white people! I said it, I said it! You were all thinking it, I said it!

In tragedy, it's hard to find a good resolution; it's not black and white: it's a big fog of gray.

It's hard to imagine that there are people in the country that have types of hateful, inexcusable, racist, white supremacist views.

In New York’s Times Square a white-clad girl clutches her purse and skirt as an uninhibited sailor plants his lips squarely on hers.

As Dr. Chiang puts it, “while Buddha came to China on white elephants, Christ was borne on cannon balls.

So the mayor of New Orleans would have used his own buses had the people had been white?