Euell Gibbons Quotes

#1. We live in a vastly complex society which has been able to provide us with a multitude of material things, and this is good, but people are beginning to suspect we have paid a high spiritual price for our plenty.

Euell Gibbons

#2. You can play jacks, and girls do that with a soft ball and do tricks with it. Oh, Oh, dog Biscuit, and when he is happy he doesn't get snappy.

Dutch Schultz

#3. You can search the world over and you will find no one who is more deserving of your kindness and well wishing than you yourself.

Gautama Buddha

#4. The kind of crabbing my wife likes to do is to return from an afternoon's swim or sunbathing session, open the refrigerator door, and find a generous plate of crab cakes all ready to cook.

Euell Gibbons

#5. A surprising feature of herbal research is that it is seldom the rare, exotic, and beautiful plant that proves the most interesting; more often it is some common, familiar, and despised weed that is discovered to have undreamed-of virtues.

Euell Gibbons

#6. Whenever anyone grows tired of the secondhand sort of existence that depends on purchased products, and wants to resume the intimate relationship with nature that man once enjoyed, the kukui-nut stands ready to furnish him with food, flavor, tannin, oil, paint, varnish, medicine, and magic.

Euell Gibbons

#7. You gonna do somethin'? Or are you just gonna stand there and bleed?

Kevin Jarre

#8. Female authors were still using male names when I was young, or they were neatly shoehorned into 'women's books' except for those few that men could always point at when the disparity was pointed out.

Sherwood Smith

#9. Some people said my acting was a cross between Euell Gibbons, Rodney Allen Rippy and Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.

Wolfman Jack

#10. Nature Boy, whats that? Do you run around the forest like Euell Gibbons, eating bark or something?

Roddy Piper

#11. I would love to occasionally do English-speaking films, but the script is as important for me as the director.

Audrey Tautou

#12. We are not our brother's keeper we are our brother and we are our sister. We must look past complexion and see community.

Maya Angelou

#13. Many parts of a pine tree are edible.

Euell Gibbons

#14. The creative project of self-government - hard and frustrating but necessary - is to produce that political commonwealth that changes over time, that can change sometimes by the minute, if circumstances intervene.

Charlie Pierce

#15. Wild is head back hollering at the sky, a moment that contains the full world. Wild is not tame, not bound, not constrained, constricted, condensed. Wildness is big or it is small, but it is open - open mouth, season, door, heart.

Christine Byl

#16. If you really do care about him, his past won't matter, because you're his future.

Kirsty Dallas

#17. Colonialism bred an innate arrogance, but when you undertake that sort of imperial adventure, that arrogance gives way to a feeling of accommodativeness. You take pride in your openness.

Wole Soyinka

#18. I'm really a clean-cut kid.

Davy Jones

#19. Ever eat a pine tree? Many parts are edible.

Euell Gibbons

#20. One murder made a villain, Millions a hero.

Beilby Porteus

#21. Employee loyalty begins with employer loyalty. Your employees should know that if they do the job they were hired to do with a reasonable amount of competence and efficiency, you will support them.

Harvey MacKay