1,140 Quotes by E. B. White

We had to come out pounding the ball, ... Our offensive line did a great job. Every time I got the ball, they had a great surge. They deserve all the credit.

It's a wonderful thing if they want to volunteer extra things. But to ask in a manner that indicates you will not be in support of a project if they don't do what you ask of them is extortion.

I think the strongest argument for the government is, if the death penalty is not appropriate for someone who had a hand in an attempt to undermine the entire American system of military, industry, and government, then who is it appropriate for?

sharks are just something you've got to deal with.

When snow accumulates week after week, month after month, it works curious miracles.

Children hold spring so tightly in their brown fists-just as grownups, who are less sure of it, hold it in their hearts.

A despot doesn't fear eloquent writers preaching freedom- he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold.

Just about anything anybody can use, we give out free from toilet paper on up. I feel like God sent me here. Jerry helped me raise my four kids when I lived in Longview Place and St. John's Lutheran School was nearby.

Sam, ... is the real McCoy, the real thing.