1,140 Quotes by E. B. White

(Lamar) drilled us at our house last year and we challenged our players to put out a great effort tonight. We didn't look pretty but we made the play we had to make at the end to win the game.

We hate to see her go, ... We were hoping that she would stay a while, with all the wonderful things she's been doing.

We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.

A man is not expected to love his country, lest he make an ass of himself. Yet our country, seen through the mists of smog, is curiously lovable, in somewhat the way an individual who has got himself into an unconscionable scrape seems lovable - or at least deserving of support.

You would think that after so many children have been shot running around the streets with real guns, that they wouldn't make things like this anymore,

From morning till night, sounds drift from the kitchen, most of them familiar and comforting. . . . On days when warmth is the most important need of the human heart, the kitchen is the place you can find it; it dries the wet sock, it cools the hot little brain.

A traveler case could happen in any town, anywhere in the country, ... With the Internet, the kid could be from anywhere.

Government is the thing. Law is the thing. Not brotherhood, not international cooperation, not security councils that can stop war only by waging it... Where does security lie, anyway - security against the thief, a bad man, the murderer? In brotherly love? Not at all. It lies in government.

We have a friend in town who's from Scotland and we were thinking of doing a Omaha/Glasgow band cooperation, which would be super fun.