Donna Reed Quotes

#1. My '50s were different than other people's '50s. The myth didn't permeate our world, 'Donna Reed' and all that. I longed for that, I wanted to be like other normal families on TV.

Gary Ross

#2. If every violent program in the nation were blipped off the air for 48 hours, and replaced by reruns of the 'Donna Reed Show', there would not be one less death in South Central LA. At most you'd have several more incidents of people shooting out their TVs.

J. Michael Straczynski

#3. I can't think of my life without Donna Reed. She has been such an enormous influence on my life.

Shelley Fabares

#4. It was a regular family scene. All we had to do was clean up a few murders and a matter of international dope smuggling, then we could move next door to Donna Reed.

Walter Mosley

#5. Let us trust to ourselves, see all with our own eyes; Let these be our oracles, our tripods and our gods.

Will Durant

#6. A weekend in Vegas without gambling and drinking is just like being a born-again Christian.

Artie Lange

#7. Back around the counter to fetch my rifle. Rifle, sidearm, knife, a couple of flash grenades. And one more thing, the most essential weapon in my arsenal: a heart full of rage.

Rick Yancey

#8. I hope more people decide to become organ donors.

Donna Reed

#9. husband, Alan, has encouraged me from the start and early on saw what needed to be elaborated upon, refined and honed. Without his guidance and encouragement, the project would have been a much lesser thing. Isabel

Isabel Jackson

#10. To be fair is not enough any more. We must be ferociously fair.

John Hay Whitney

#11. When you handle yourself, use your head; when you handle others, use your heart.

Donna Reed

#12. Forty pictures I was in, and all I remember is 'What kind of bra will you be wearing today, honey?' That was always the area of big decision - from the neck to the navel.

Donna Reed

#13. I've been involved with blood donation since the 1980s because there is a critical need.

Donna Reed

#14. What we look for in the school is unrealized potential.

Donna Reed

#15. Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#16. Robert E. Lee Prewitt. Isn't that a silly old name.

Donna Reed

#17. If nuclear power plants are safe, let the commerical insurance industry insure them. Until these most expert judges of risk are willing to gamble with their money, I'm not willing to gamble with the health and safety of my family.

Donna Reed