Waltons Quotes & Sayings

What makes cities great, and what leads to their gradual demise? As this book will argue, three critical factors have determined the overall health of cities - the sacredness of place, the ability to provide security and project power, and last, the animating role of commerce. — Joel Kotkin

When I was young and irresponsible, I was young and irresponsible. — George W. Bush

Whenever I think about my stupid empty life, I come to the conclusion that I'm just wasting my time, and I'm not the only one. Everybody I know is the same, except for old Jiko. Just wasting time, killing time, feeling crappy.
And what does it mean to waste time anyway? If you waste time is it lost forever?
And if time is lost forever, what does that mean? It's not like you get to die any sooner, right? I mean, if you want to die sooner, you have to take matters into your own hands. — Ruth Ozeki

In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away. — Tahar Ben Jelloun

We're going to keep trying to strengthen the American family. To make them more like The Waltons and less like The Simpsons. — George H. W. Bush

The only way on earth to multiply happiness is to divide it. — Paul Scherrer

Writers who aren't from rural states in the Midwest or the West often treat such people as if they were the Waltons or the Beverly Hillbillies. — Kent Haruf

I don't know if I would be a good cop. As gruff as I come off, I take things very emotionally. — Michael Cudlitz

I moved out to L.A. in July and Hot L Baltimore started in September or October. So I had done a few things. I'd done a Mary [Tyler Moore]. I'd done a Waltons. I hadn't done a Rhoda yet I don't think. — Richard Masur

'The Waltons' was profoundly important after years of wandering around. I was 44 and cut off from family and friends. It nurtured me back to a sense of family and who I am. It was a transforming experience. — Ralph Waite

Play with your physical workplace in a way that sends positive "body language" to employees and visitors. — Tom Kelley

Hollywood seems to succumb to fads. Well, action films do well. Give me violence. Give me a scene where there's a couple of car chases or shooting and stuff like that. They're forgetting the fact that there's a basic structure to a story that is essential to making it really broad and appealing. — Clint Eastwood

Imagine, a First World country founded on egalitarian principles in which the top 20 per cent of households have 84 per cent of the wealth, while the bottom 40 per cent have 0.3 per cent; and one family, the Waltons, owns more than the bottom 40 per cent of US families combined; and the ratio of CEO salary to unskilled worker is 354 to 1 (fifty years ago it was 20 to 1). A minimum wage of $7.25 per hour, which is 34 per cent less than workers on the minimum were getting in 1968. More than 20 per cent of children in the United States live in poverty, more than twice the rate of any European country. With a quarter of totalitarian China's population, democratic America has about the same number of people in jail. — Don Watson

Creating a huge personal fortune was never particularly a goal of mine, and the proof of that lies in the fact that even to this day most of my, and my family's, wealth remains in the form of Wal-Mart stock. I think most people in our position would have hedged their bets a long time ago and diversified into all kinds of investments. As it's happened, though, our very simplistic, very personal investment strategy has turned out far better than anyone could ever have expected. So Wal-Mart stock has made the Waltons a very wealthy family - on paper anyway. I — Sam Walton

America needs to be a lot more like the Waltons and a lot less like the Simpsons. — George H. W. Bush

The nice thing about life," said Miss Etta, "is you never know when there's going to be a party. — Earl Hamner Jr.

Some loves have to be given up, others have to be forgotten. Strange as it may sound, if you think of me as a monster, but I can love most passionately. I do not think of myself as evil. — Christopher Pike

When I was in high school I moved from the big city to a tiny village of 500 people in Vermont. It was like The Waltons! — Daphne Zuniga

I used to watch 'The Waltons' and sob because my family was nothing like that. We had a cruel sense of humor in my family. — Paula Poundstone

All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord. — Earl Nightingale

Trains and boxcars and the smell of coal and fire are not ugly to children. Ugliness is a concept that we happen on later and become self-conscious about. — Ray Bradbury

All of us from 'The Waltons' still love each other. I think we're closer than some real families. — Michael Learned