44+ Linda Ellerbee Quotes On Culture, So It Goes And Informative

Linda Ellerbee was an American journalist who was known for her witty and humorous style. She was the creator and anchor of the long-running weekly news program, Nick News with Linda Ellerbee. She was also a correspondent for NBC News and the author of several books. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Linda Ellerbee on leadership, culture, love.

Top 10 Linda Ellerbee Quotes

1. If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?
2. I think laughter may be a form of courage. As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I think we are never more brave than when we do that.
3. If you believe in your heart that you are right, you must fight with all your might to do it your way. Only dead fish swim with the stream all the time.
4. The new national campfire - radio.
5. People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.
6. What I like most about change is that it's a synonym for 'hope'. If you're taking a risk, what you are really saying is, 'I believe in tomorrow and I will be the part of it.
7. In the coldest February, as in every other month in every other year, the best thing to hold on to in this world is each other.
8. When the anchorman is wearing a colonel's uniform, it tells you something.
9. A good time to laugh is any time you can.
10. Only dead fish swim with the stream all of the time.

Linda Ellerbee Short Quotes

• The best time to laugh is anytime you can.
• I think laughter may be a form of courage.
• It's not brain surgery. It's not nuclear physics. It's television. It's only television.
• if you don't want to get old, don't mellow.
• Co-dependence...taking someone else's temperature to see how you feel.
• Dreck is dreck and no amount of fancy polish is going to make it anything else.
• Always remember to set a place at the table of life for the unexpected guest.
• There are two types of change: the change we choose and the change that chooses us.
• I believe in tomorrow and I will be part of it.
• Change, like youth, is purely wasted on the young.

Linda Ellerbee Quotes About World

I have always felt that laughter in the face of reality is probably the finest sound there is and will last until the day when the game is called on account of darkness. In this world, a good time to laugh is any time you can. — Linda Ellerbee

I want to know why, if men rule the world, they don't stop wearing neckties. — Linda Ellerbee

I am not for abortion; nobody is for abortion. I am for your right to make your own hard choices in this world. — Linda Ellerbee

Linda Ellerbee Famous Quotes And Sayings

Media literacy is not just important, it's absolutely critical. It's going to make the difference between whether kids are a tool of the mass media or whether the mass media is a tool for kids to use. — Linda Ellerbee

Some of my colleagues want to be The Anchorman on the Mount. Others see themselves as the Ace Reporter. Because of 60 Minutes, there's a whole herd of them determined to be The Grand Inquisitor and a heady number want only to be The Friendliest Anchor on the Block. At least one wants to be Jesus. — Linda Ellerbee

[My father] was generous with his affection, given to great, awkward, engulfing hugs, and I can remember so clearly the smell of his hugs, all starched shirt, tobacco, Old Spice, and Cutty Sark. Sometimes I think I've never been properly hugged since. — Linda Ellerbee

When there is good news, and it is news , we do report it, but usually news is a record of human failure. Those wanting to celebrate human accomplishment are, as someone said, advised to go to the sports section. — Linda Ellerbee

Like Nietzsche, I believe that without music, life would be a mistake. Nothing but silence says it better. — Linda Ellerbee

I've heard it said that the first law of journalism is to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it. — Linda Ellerbee

A few weeks after my surgery, I went out to play catch with my golden retriever. When I bent over to pick up the ball, my prosthesis fell out. The dog snatched it, and I found myself chasing him down the road yelling "Hey, come back here with my breast!" — Linda Ellerbee

I was raised by and have raised people who regard telling one story when two would do as a sign someone is not really trying. — Linda Ellerbee

Presumably a movement is more polite than a revolution, and a lot slower. — Linda Ellerbee

Just because it's a rat race doesn't mean it's okay to be a rat. — Linda Ellerbee

in television the product is not the program; the product is the audience and the consumer of that product is the advertiser. The advertiser does not 'buy' a news program. He buys an audience. — Linda Ellerbee

The whole town looks as if it had been left out in the rain too long and by mistake. — Linda Ellerbee

There is a gentle absurdity about Washington, D.C., and it is easy to develop affection for the place, if you can forget that the consequences of what goes on there are real, whereas what goes on there may not be. — Linda Ellerbee

Pitching was about fooling people, manipulating them, making them believe in something that ultimately wasn't there. Great pitching was great lying. — Linda Ellerbee

Some of the qualities that go into making a good reporter - aggressiveness, a certain sneakiness, a secretive nature, nosiness, the ability to find out that which someone wants hidden, the inability to take 'no' with any sort of grace, a taste for gossip, rudeness, a fair disdain for what people will think of you and an occasional and calculated disregard for rules - are also qualities that go into making a very antisocial human being. — Linda Ellerbee

It's not just the cheerleading thing I have a problem with, it's the whole jock enchilada. I'm all for a good game of basketball in teh driveway or a killer bike ride. But when there's tackling and grunting involved-- no thanks. — Linda Ellerbee

Time doesn't go. Time stays. We go. — Linda Ellerbee

How is it that so often . . . I get the feeling I've worked hard to learn something I already know, or knew, once. — Linda Ellerbee

'These boat people,' says the government of Hong Kong, 'they all want to go to America.' Well, I swear I don't know why, do you? I mean, take Vietnam. Why would any Vietnamese come to America after what American did to Vietnam? Don't they remember My Lai, napalm, Sylvester Stallone? — Linda Ellerbee

Putting people in a room and strapping wires to their wrist to find out if I make them tingle when I'm telling them about Beirut is a long way from Edward R. Murrow. — Linda Ellerbee

We tried to do the news without frills, without fluffy hairdos, without graphics. It does say something about our business that is not very pretty. It didn't matter how good the show was. What counted was money. — Linda Ellerbee

Life Lessons by Linda Ellerbee

1. Linda Ellerbee taught us to never give up, no matter how difficult the situation. She showed us that with hard work and determination, anything is possible. She also taught us to always stay true to ourselves and to never be afraid to speak up and stand up for what we believe in.