Quotes About Ebony

#1. I should like it to be as fair as snow, as rosy as the red blood, and with hair and eyes as black as ebony.

Hamilton Wright Mabie

#2. When the wolf howls and the moon dims
hope fades with the waning light.
Evil lurks at every turn as shadows waltz
across the ebony night.
Behold the midnight hour
where all of reason takes flight.

Grace Willows

#3. The sky was like ebony and the only illumination was the harsh white light of the central streetlamp, which cast shadows so hard it seemed you might cut yourself on them.

Jasper Fforde

#4. It takes more than holding hands and singing 'Ebony and Ivory'.

David Mitchell

#5. Skin white as snow, lips red as blood, and hair black as ebony.

Jacob Grimm

#6. All around were horror, and thick gloom, and a black sweltering desert of ebony.

Edgar Allan Poe

#7. From time to time, Ebony and I also ran credit card scams.

Jessica N. Watkins

#8. Radio One played "Ebony and Ivory," a new song by Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder. The breakfast DJ Mike Read played it two times in a row which was pretty hardcore of him as it was clearly the worst song of the decade so far, perhaps of the entire century.

Adrian McKinty

#9. The taste of good coffee, so deep and complex that it was almost a crime to describe it by a single name. The sound of rain falling on the pavement, the smell of petrichor and moistened loam. The color of a single raven's feather in the sunlight, rainbows caught in ebony - ==========

Anonymous

#10. Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.-

Langston Hughes

#11. Time magazine has selected their person of the year. Guess what, it's President-elect Barack Obama. Yeah, ironically, Ebony magazine announced their person of the year, and it's Ed Begley Jr.

Conan O'Brien

#12. He wanted to touch her, to tame her, to take her in his arms and make love to her until they were both exhausted and unable to think of anything beyond their embrace. He wanted to sink into her rich ebony curls, her beautiful eyes, her infinite softness and never return.

Sarah MacLean

#13. I loved going to the library. It was the first time I ever saw Black newspapers and magazines like JET, Ebony, the Baltimore Afro-American, or the Chicago Defender. And I'll never forget my librarian.

John Lewis

#14. It was a wonderful flower, indeed. She had never seen its like before. It was not just one color, or two, but four: ebony, silver, snow white and purple, all at once.

Rachel Sharp

#15. Outside, the sky was clear, stars gleaming in its ebony vastness like celestial fireflies. It was bitterly cold, and Hywel's every breath trailed after him in pale puffs of smoke. The glazed snow crackled underfoot as he started towards the great hall.

Sharon Kay Penman

#16. Ebony and ivory live together in perfect harmony, side by side on my keyboard piano, oh Lord, why don't we?

Paul McCartney

#17. In that shrieking the inmost soul of human fear and agony clawed hopelessly and insanely at the ebony gates of oblivion.

H.P. Lovecraft

#18. Conan mentally termed the creatures black men, for lack of a better term; instinctively he knew that these tall ebony beings were not men, as he understood the term. No

Robert E. Howard

#19. I laughed. "What the hell are you learning from Ebony?" "How to be a strong black woman?" I

Adrianne Brooks

#20. Crusted bloodstains marred the carpet everywhere, with chunks of matted gore thrusting from their centers, like ebony volcanoes oozing rivers of tissue. A

Joe Hart

#21. The car was originally owned by a man who had made a fortune manufacturing bidis, the cheap cigarettes wrapped in the leaf of the ebony tree and tied at one end with a string.

Deepak Chopra

#22. The night was clear and frosty, all ebony of shadow and silver of snowy slope; big stars were shining over the silent fields; here and there the dark pointed firs stood up with snow powdering their branches and the wind whistling through them.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

#23. A pretty bartender, chocolate skin and ebony eyes, gave him a broad smile and an "I'll be right there" wink as she poured a glass of wine for another customer.

Tiffany Reisz

#24. Even her beauty had sharp edges. Her long ebony hair was cut like a razor blade. Her face was strong and fine.But her eyes. A milky green, they betrayed an air of vulnerability she seemed desperate to hide.

Laura Oliva

#25. There were faces at the windows and words written in blood; deep in the crypt a lonely ghoul crunched on something that might once have been alive; forked lightnings slashed the ebony night; the faceless were walking; all was right with the world

Neil Gaiman

#26. The air itself was ebony, like the denial, the refutation, of the idea of light.

Martin Amis

#27. [He] looked as thought he had been carved out of soft ebony by a master hand that had grown bored with its own expertise, and started to veer towards the grotesque.

Robert Galbraith

#28. Both slaves had been oiled until their flesh shined like polished ebony, outlining every detail of their muscles.

Myra Hargrave McIlvain

#29. Her skin was as white as snow, her lips as red as blood, and her long hair as black as ebony.

C.J. Redwine

#30. For as long as I can remember, I have been passionately intrigued by 'Africa,' by the word itself, by its flora and fauna, its topographical diversity and grandeur; but above all else, by the sheer variety of the colors of its people, from tan and sepia to jet and ebony.

Henry Louis Gates

#31. Johnson Publishing offered me an opportunity to build back iconic brands like 'Ebony' and 'Jet' magazines.

Desiree Rogers

#32. Magic is like silver cutlery, Ebony, you only bring it out to either impress, or stab, important guests.

Odette C. Bell

#33. Most of my guitars have been instruments that look cool. I'm not picky. I never think, 'Oh, this neck isn't made of ebony,' or, 'These strings don't feel correct.' It doesn't matter too much.

James Hetfield

#34. At an early age I discovered the beauty in pictures in 'Vogue' magazine and Ebony magazine, and I would read 'The New York Times.' I had to make my own world within my world because I was an only child.

Andre Leon Talley

#35. Good writers look it up.
Great writers experience it.

Ebony Easter

#36. Momma and Daddy have a good marriage and friendship.

Ebony Tanya

#37. The only thing you can trust about life and people is that at any given time, one of the two will always hurt you.

Ebony Canion

#38. Never judge a woman by her attitude...listen to her story, get to know her heart & experience her fears...Not everything is what it seems...~E.Williams

I Will Never have to Solidify my existence....If you know my name my Existence is Profound....E~Williams

Ebony

#39. Rap started on the street, and religion is everywhere, even on the streets.

Ebony A. Utley