Eb White Quotes
I think the American public has gone from really almost white-hot anger in 2010 to an anxiety knowing their government needs to work.
All we have to do is listen. The Good Lord gave us two ears and only one mouth, my dear white-headed mother used to say.
Recapitulation provided a convenient focus for the persuasive racism of white scientists; they looked to the activities of their own children for comparison with normal adult behavior in lower races.
I got hooked into folk music by accident, because that's what white college kids liked when I was a child
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.
But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defenseless that I couldn't do it.
Look, the world is everywhere: satellites, end tables, the pink and white poinsettias outside the church; reunions and degrees. All those radiant asterisks . . . Soon it will all make sense.
A Thaum is the basic unit of magical strength. It has been universally established as the amount of magic needed to create one small white pigeon or three normal-sized billiard balls.
From about the age of 5, I was aware that I didn't fit. I was the black, atheist kid in the all-white, Catholic school run by nuns. I was an anomaly.
We knew it would rain, for the poplars showed The white of their leaves, the amber grain Shrunk in the wind,-and the lightning now Is tangled in tremulous skeins of rain.
Share what you do profusely, because it will be remixed by others into something new, rich and strange.
People always ask me about the intent of witchcraft and what it is used for. The answer in 'white' covens is simple: it is to be use the powers for good amongst the circle and its friends.
I'm of the opinion that if you step on stage and you're not a straight white male, you're automatically making a political statement whether you know it or not.
I think there is a period of esthetic discovery that happens to a man and he can do all sorts of things at white heat.
I thought some of Mrs. White's material was prophetic. I felt some of her insights were extremely helpful and I regarded her as a sister in the Lord. I wasn't out to attack Ellen White's character.
Hawaii is the birthplace of surfing, and many Hawaiians or part-Hawaiians surf, but in the rest of the United States it's a pretty white sport.
How many cowards whose hearts are all as false As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins The beards of Hercules and frowning Mars, Who inward searched, have livers white as milk!
What if this cursed hand Were thicker than itself with brother's blood Is there not rain enough in the sweet heaves To wash it white as snow?
I have seen roses damask'd, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks.
They may seize On the white wonder of dear Juliet's hand And steal immortal blessing from her lips, Who, even in pure and vestal modesty, Still blush, as thinking their own kisses sin.
It is wonderful how much depends upon the relations of black and white A black and white, if properly balanced, suggests colour.
The memory of my father is wrapped up in white paper, like sandwiches taken for a day of work. Just as a magician takes towers and rabbits out of his hat, he drew love from his small body.
Don't turn over the rocks if you don't want to see the pale creatures who live under them.
In a perverse way, I was glad for the stitches, glad it would show, that there would be scars. What was the point in just being hurt on the inside? It should bloody well show.
White House political adviser Karl Rove was one of Robert Novak's sources for the 2003 disclosure of a CIA operative's identity, according to a story published today in "Duh" magazine.
As we search as a nation for constructive ways to challenge racism and white supremacy, it is absolutely essential that progressive female voices gain a hearing.
Our culture thrives on black-and-white narratives, clearly defined emotions, easy endings, and so, this thrust into complexity exhausts.
Obama took a tour of the Great Wall of China and said, 'We need one of these things around the White House.'
Barack Obama's busy moving into the White House. Earlier today, John McCain was blowing on his soup.
There's no place you can go on the prairie that you don't hear the white noise of the wind, steady and rough as surf curling along a non-existant shore.
I think it's time we had a president who carried the same life experiences into the White House as most ordinary Americans.
I've had some wonderful times at the White House. I've been with Ford, Carter, Reagan, Clinton and Bush.
Of the One O'Clock Lab Band after hearing their performance, and sitting in with them at the White House: "I wish it were mine".
When I go stand up at the podium in front of the White House press corps, I never lie. I never say something that I know is untrue. Credibility is enormously important to a press secretary.
President Obama had lunch with Republican leaders at the White House today and had to do without salt, pepper and butter. Not for dietary reasons. The Republicans refused to pass anything.
You know, people'd always ask "Why is Jesse Jackson running for the White House?" They never seen the house I'm running from.
If I’d been talking about black trash, I might be lynched. If I was talking about white trash, I’d merely be another torchbearer in an ongoing national lynching.
Life is much more complex than the black-and-white sound bites that you get on television. There are nuances and shades of gray.
Senator John Stennis: The civil rights movement did more to free the white man that the black man. ... It freed my soul.
A Canadian newspaperman said yesterday that this is the President's "Easter egghead roll on the White House lawn." I want to deny that!