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Walter Cronkite Quotes

Errol Flynn died on a 70-foot boat with a 17-year-old girl. Walter has always wanted to go that way, but he’s going to have to settle for a 17-footer with a 70-year-old.”
~ The most famous quote by Walter Cronkite according to us :)

I want to say that probably 24 hours after I told CBS that I was stepping down at my 65th birthday, I was already regretting it. And I regretted it every day since.
~Walter Cronkite

I’ve gone from the most trusted man in America to one of the most debated.
~Walter Cronkite

There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
~Walter Cronkite

Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day – 23 minutes – and that’s supposed to be enough.
~Walter Cronkite

I can’t imagine a person becoming a success who doesn’t give this game of life everything he’s got.
~Walter Cronkite

America’s health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.
~Walter Cronkite

The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good.
~Walter Cronkite

Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine.
~Walter Cronkite

When you’re bringing in a fairly unknown candidate challenging a sitting president, the population needs a lot more information than reduced coverage provides.
~Walter Cronkite

I think somebody ought to do a survey as to how many great, important men have quit to spend time with their families who spent any more time with their family. Probably less.
~ Walter Cronkite

Our job is only to hold up the mirror – to tell and show the public what has happened.
~Walter Cronkite

America’s health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.
~Walter Cronkite

Congress & the Presidency in the Television Age.
~ Walter Cronkite

In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.
~Walter Cronkite

I am dumbfounded that there hasn’t been a crackdown with the libel and slander laws on some of these would-be writers and reporters on the Internet.
~Walter Cronkite

It’s my belief that we should get out now.
~ Walter Cronkite

I gave the impression of playing a role more than simply trying to deliver the news to the audience.
~Walter Cronkite

To say that we are mired in stalemate seems the only realistic, yet unsatisfactory, conclusion
~ Walter Cronkite

The perils of duck hunting are great – especially for the duck.
~Walter Cronkite

I think he’s terrific. I’ve always had a great appreciation of his ability. And I would rather like to see him stay on the job there.
~ Walter Cronkite

It is difficult to think of our craft without him.
~ Walter Cronkite

There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
~Walter Cronkite

There’s a little more ego involved in these jobs than people might realize.
~Walter Cronkite

My piece just kind of was another bullet in his rear end.
~ Walter Cronkite

I don’t think those things live forever with the public. They’re more likely to live with us journalists than the public itself.
~ Walter Cronkite

We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.
~Walter Cronkite

We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.
~ Walter Cronkite

I think it is absolutely essential in a democracy to have competition in the media, a lot of competition, and we seem to be moving away from that.
~Walter Cronkite

This opens the door on another chapter of history.”
~Walter Cronkite

Dan Rather and I just aren’t especially chummy.
~Walter Cronkite




America Quotes

My favorite thing about the United States? Lots of Americans, one America. ~Val Saintsbury

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience. – Oscar Wilde

Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America – that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement. ~Thomas Wolfe

We have no desire to be the world’s policeman. But America does want to be the world’s peacemaker.
~Jimmy Carter

I was born an American; I live an American; I shall die an American.
~ Daniel Webster

America is not just a country, it’s an idea.
~Bono

He only salutes the flag with one finger.
~The Simpsons

The pilgrims were kicked out of England, quarreled with the Dutch, alienated the Indians, and had an evil reputation among the turkeys.
~Dave Beard

America’s future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.
~ Jane Addams

I still believe in a place called Hope, a place called America.
~Bill Clinton

When good Americans die they go to Paris.
~ Oscar Wilde

America’s abundance was not created by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes
~ Ayn Rand

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
~ Thomas Jefferson

Americans have different ways of saying things. They say elevator, we say lift… they say President, we say stupid psychopathic git.
~ Alexai Sayle

What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.
~ Carlos Fuentes

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.
~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy

America is not like a large blanket, the same color, the same texture, the same size. America is more like a quilt, many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven and held together by a single thread. ~ Rev. Jesse Jackson

Some Americans need hyphens in their names, because only part of them has come over; but when the whole man has come over, heart and thought and all, the hyphen drops of its own weight out of his name.
~ Woodrow Wilson

America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.
~John Updike

Those who expect to reap the benefits of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
~Thomas Paine

No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
~H.L. Mencken

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so. ~Gore Vidal

The fact is that Americans are not a thoughtful people; they are too busy to stop and question their values. ~William Ralph

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense… human rights invented America.
~Jimmy Carter

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




Good Luck Quotes

These are some good luck quotes. Earlier we had a page on luck. These are specifically on Good Luck and good fortune or some quotes that you could use to wish someone with good luck..

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
~ Demosthenes

Wisdom is the winner over good luck
~ Juvenal

Diligence is the mother of good luck
~ Benjamin Franklin

Good fortune does not happen because of luck.
~Catherine Pulsifer

Reverence, humility, contentment, gratitude and hearing the good Dharma, this is the best good luck.
~Buddha

The day You decide to do it is your lucky day.
~ Japanese Proverb

It’s a funny thing,the more I practice the luckier I get.
~Arnold Palmer

Optimism is the foundation of courage and good luck.
~Nicholas Murray Butler

When it comes to luck, you make your own.
~Bruce Springsteen

Good luck comes in slender currents, misfortune in a rolling tides.
~Irish saying

Good luck is a lazy man’s estimate of a worker’s success.
~Old Saying on good luck

Luck is believing you’re lucky.
~ Tennessee Williams

Luck is what you have left over after you give 100 percent.
~L. Coleman

Luck never gives; it only lends.
~Swedish Proverb

Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck.
~ George S. Clason

Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
~Orson Welles

A man does not seek his luck, luck seeks its man.
~Turkish Proverb

There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.
~ Edward Morgan Forster

Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrow’s good luck.
~ Og Mandino

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
~Seneca on Good Luck

The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.
~B. Sher

As good luck would have it.
~ William Shakespeare

Those who have succeeded at anything and don’t mention luck are kidding themselves.
~ Larry King




Golf Quotes

Some famous quotes on golf and the game..

Golf, like the measles, should be caught young, for, if postponed to riper years, the results may be serious.
~P.G. Wodehouse

My body is here, but my mind has already teed off.
~Author Unknown

It’s good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
~Mark Twain

Golf is golf. You hit the ball, you go find it. Then you hit it again.
~Lon Hinkle

I know I am getting better at golf because I’m hitting fewer spectators.
~Gerald Ford

I’m not saying my golf game went bad, but if I grew tomatoes, they’d come up sliced.
~ Lee Trevino

Golf seems to me an arduous way to go for a walk. I prefer to take the dogs out.
~Princess Anne of Great Britain

Professional golf is the only sport where, if you win 20% of the time, you’re the best.
~ Jack Nicklaus

Golf is a fascinating game. It has taken me nearly forty years to discover that I can’t play it.
~Ted Ray

Real golfers, no matter what the provocation, never strike a caddie with the driver. The sand wedge is far more effective.
~ Huxtable Pippey

If you break 100, watch your golf. If you break 80, watch your business.
~Joey Adams

Golf balls are attracted to water as unerringly as the eye of a middle-aged man to a female bosom.
~Michael Green

Isn’t it fun to go out on the course and lie in the sun?
~Bob Hope

Golf is a game in which the ball lies poorly and the players well.
~Art Rosenbaum

Golf is a game where white men can dress up as black pimps and get away with it.
~Robin Williams

Any game where a man 60 can beat a man 30 ain’t no game.
~Burt Shotte

Golf is for those who like to stroke it.
~Unknown

Golf is a game in which you yell “fore,” shoot six, and write down five.
~Paul Harvey

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.
~ Ernest Hemingway

Golf is an awkward set of bodily contortions designed to produce a graceful result.
~Tommy Armour

Sometimes things work out on the golf course and sometimes they don’t. Life will go on. You try to understand what happens, but maybe today I don’t want to know. I just screwed up so maybe I should just put it behind me.
~ Greg Norman

Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation.
~Jack Nicklaus

Golf isn’t like other sports where you can take a player out if he’s having a bad day. You have to play the whole game.
~Phil Blackmar

Missing a short putt does not mean you have to hit your next drive out of bounds.
~ Henry Cotton

I went to play golf and tried to shoot my age, but I shot my weight instead.
~ Bob Hope

My swing is so bad I look like a caveman killing his lunch.
~Lee Trevino

The harder you work, the luckier you get.
~ Gary Player

Golf is a game not just of manners but of morals.
~ Art Spander

I can airmail the golf ball, but sometimes I don’t put the right address on it.
~Jim Dent

My handicap? Woods and irons.
~Chris Codiroli

My golf is improving. Yesterday I hit the ball in one!
~ Jane Swan

If you’re caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron.
~Lee Trevino

The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody put a flagstick on top.
~Pete Dye

When I die, bury me on the golf course so my husband will visit
~Unknown

These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.
~ Sam Snead

Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.
~Jim Bishop

The ball retriever is not long enough to get my putter out of the tree.
~ Brian Weis

Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding and maddening – and it is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented.
~Arnold Palmer




Struggle Quotes

Here are some inspirational quotes of struggle, because if you don’t struggle hard enough or if you haven’t struggled in life, chances are, you are not too successful as you would have wanted to be. There are the lucky ones and the prodigies who had it easy all the time, but most of us had to struggle and struggle hard and we got it, because it does not go unrewarded.

OK, here are the struggle quotes.

“The strongest have their moments of fatigue”
~Friedrich Nietzsche

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.
~ Albert Einstein

And in which we say that life is eternal but continue to struggle to survive.
~Neale Donald Walsch

Nothing is given to man on earth – struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible – the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen.
~ Andrew Bernstein

A victorious army first wins and then seeks battle. A defeated army first battles and then seeks victory.
~ Sun Tzu

If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

I have always struggled to achieve excellence. One thing that cycling has taught me is that if you can achieve something without a struggle it’s not going to be satisfying.
~Greg Lemond

It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
~ Heraclitus

The last struggle for our rights, the battle for our civilization, is entirely with ourselves.
~ William Wells Brown

Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.
~Mao Zedong

The highest reward for a man’s toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.
~ John Ruskin

So shall I fight, so shall I tread, In this long war beneath the stars; So shall a glory wreathe my head, So shall I faint and show the scars, Until this case, this clogging mould, Be smithied all to kingly gold.
~John Edward Masefield

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
~Napoleon Hill

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
~ Arthur C. Clarke

We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
~Norman Vincent Peale

It’s a struggle for every young Black man. You know how it is, only God can judge us.
~Tupac Shakur

All glory comes from daring to begin.
~ Eugene F. Ware




Fourth of July Quotes

Some 4th of July quotes to wish your friends on the fourth of July and maybe use the quotes in your decorations.

“The United States is the only country with a known birthday.”
– James G. Blaine

“The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation. ”
- Woodrow Wilson

“Well it’s time for them to own their failure. It’s time for us to change America.”
-Obama

“To preserve the freedom of the human mind then and freedom of the press, every spirit should be ready to devote itself to martyrdom; for as long as we may think as we will, and speak as we think, the condition of man will proceed in improvement.”
- Thomas Jefferson (3rd US President )

“The real democratic idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other, but that every one shall have liberty, without hindrance, to be what God made him”
- Henry Ward Beecher

“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.”
-George Bernard Shaw

One more on 4th of July quote on Liberty:
“Liberty is the breath of life to nations. ”
-George Bernard Shaw

“Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.”
- Benjamin Franklin

Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all!
By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.
-John Dickinson

4th of July quotes“Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow – red, yellow, brown, black and white – and we’re all precious in God’s sight.”
-Jesse Jackson

“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
- Thomas Paine

“Where liberty is, there is my country”
- Benjamin Franklin

“I shall use America and democracy as convertible terms”
- Walt Whitman

“Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.”
- Kahlil Gibran

“I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.”
-Simone de Beauvoir

“Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better. ”
-Albert Camus




Father’s day Quotes

With father’s day just round the corner, I though I’d share some father’s day quotes with you all.

“My father, a good man, told me, “Never lose your ignorance; you cannot replace it”

~Anonymous

“It is a wise father that knows his own child.”
~ William Shakespeare

A father is a banker provided by nature.”
~Latest Proverb

“A father is a fellow who has replaced the currency in his wallet with the snapshots of his kids.”
~Unknown

Here is one funny father’s day quote:
“Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.”
~Unknown

“One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. ”
~ George Herbert

“My father was often angry when I was most like him.”
~Lillian Hellman

“The older I get, the smarter my father seems to get.”
~Tim Russert

“I talk and talk and talk, and I haven’t taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week.”
~Mario Cuomo

“By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong. ”
~Charles Wadsworth

“I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.”
~Sigmund Freud

The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them. ”
~Confucius

Here is a father’s day quote from the bible.
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother. ~Proverbs 10:1

“It is not flesh and blood but the heart, which makes us fathers and sons.”
~ Johann Schiller

“My father was very strong. I don’t agree with a lot of the ways he brought me up. I don’t agree with a lot of his values, but he did have a lot of integrity, and if he told us not to do something, he didn’t do it either.”
~ Madonna

“The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears.”
~ Francis Bacon, Sr.

“The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.”
~ Confucius

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.”
~Father’s day quote by Friedrich Nietzsche




Weed Quotes

You may wonder! What? Weed Quotes? How can there be quotes on weeds, but here we are. Some of these are really famous and inspiring as well, and then we have the other weed.. the kind that we smoke..

Here are some famous weed quotes that might inspire you like this one by Doug Larson.
“A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows. ”

I grew up like a neglected weed – ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.
~Harriet Tubman

“Even the richest soil, if left uncultivated will produce the rankest weeds.”
~Leonardo da Vinci

“A man’s children and his garden both reflect the amount of weeding done during the growing season.”
~Anonymous

“Less than the dust beneath thy chariot wheel, less than the weed that grows beside thy door.”
~Adela Florence Nicolson

“You must weed your mind as you would weed your garden.”
~Astrid Alauda

And some quotations with the word Weed..

But make no mistake: the weeds will win; nature bats last.
~Robert M. Pyle

Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.
~Edmund Burke

A man’s children and his garden both reflect the amount of weeding done during the growing season.
~Author Unknown

One is tempted to say that the most human plants, after all, are the weeds.
~John Burroughs

A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds.
~Author Unknown

A good garden may have some weeds.
~Thomas Fuller

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.
~Anonymous

What is a weed? I have heard it said that there are sixty definitions. For me, a weed is a plant out of place. ~Donald Culross Peattie

I always think of my sins when I weed. They grow apace in the same way and are harder still to get rid of.
~Helena Rutherfurd Ely

And then some funny quotes on Mariju**a for your Tee Shirts or myspace and suchlike

That’s what I do… Some people smoke weed, some people smoke cigarettes, some people snort coke… I pop pills, I smoke and I drink syrup, that’s my twist.



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