Hugh Downs Quotes

#1. After I started getting criticism for doing 'Big Brother,' someone told me that Hugh Downs used to host 'Concentration' and Mike Wallace used to do 'The Big Surprise.' I thought, Huh, maybe that door isn't sealed shut if I want to do '60 Minutes' one day.

Julie Chen

#2. I have no ego investment in being on the air. I don't knock others for whom that kind of attention is like oxygen, but I don't miss anything about it.

Hugh Downs

#3. As the first human to land on any world outside the Earth, and probably the first living creature of any sort to come from the Earth and reach the Moon, his legacy will be safe as long as intelligent life survives in this corner of the cosmos.

Hugh Downs

#4. Life begins when you do.

Hugh Downs

#5. Hatred is never anything but fear - if you feared no one, you would hate no one.

Hugh Downs

#6. Life has ups and it has downs. I don't care who you are.

Hugh Jackman

#7. To say, my fate is not tied to your fate, is like saying your end of the boat is sinking.

Hugh Downs

#8. What manner of people they were only books and other people could tell ... and the tale was a long and gory one dating from the dim, conjectural dawn of history. But being human they were as apt to change as mother nature to remain constant.

Robert Edison Fulton Jr.

#9. It's just us trying to start a movement where everybody passes on a bit of cooking knowledge. We estimate that one person can potentially affect 180 others very quickly so we're just trying to spread the word.

Jamie Oliver

#10. He who has never envied the vegetable has missed the human drama.

Emile M. Cioran

#11. Pity the small backs of children, he heard her saying. They carry death for us the second they are born.

Lidia Yuknavitch

#12. I sympathize with people who want to ban guns, but I can't agree with them. We have to be careful in our zeal to abolish guns that we don't wind up with counter-productive legislation that will leave armed only the people most likely to do harm with them.

Hugh Downs

#13. I've always thought that the stereotype of the dirty old man is really the creation of a dirty young man who wants the field to himself.

Hugh Downs

#14. Flexible approach - will look at ALL asset classes.

Seth Klarman

#15. The most mature human insight comes from one's introspection rather than from exterior research.

Hugh Downs

#16. How many times has the end of the world been predicted? The same number of times the prediction has proved false.

Hugh Downs

#17. The new Filipino President's name had become a saucy joke: 'Corazon, aqui, no?' That is: 'Darling, let's do it here, eh?' Or, if the words were stressed differently: 'Corazon, aqui? - No!'

Salman Rushdie

#18. Television is the medium of the 20th century.

Hugh Downs

#19. This country is a one-party country. Half of it is called Republican and half is called Democrat. It doesn't make any difference. All the really good ideas belong to the Libertarians.

Hugh Downs

#20. That ability to take in your surroundings and sort out the important stuff, to be aware, to be vigilant. Then take all that information, put it together, and see if it makes sense to you.

Paul Gleason

#21. It's going to be crazy. All eight teams here are good teams. Hopefully the atmosphere will be great because it's going to be great basketball.

Chris Kraus

#22. A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Hugh Downs

#23. Everything you do consciously is preserved for you: everything you do mechanically, since you did not do it, is lost.

Maurice Nicoll

#24. The price of freedom is responsibility, but it's a bargain, because freedom is priceless.

Hugh Downs

#25. I didn't want to try to kill myself, didn't want the blood and the hysterical parents and the guilt, any of it. But sometimes I liked the idea of simply not having to be here anymore, not having to deal with my life. As if death could be just an extended vacation.

Leila Sales

#26. During the Clinton administration, America's image was that of a strong, confident and kind world leader.

Mike Medavoy

#27. We are a one party country. Half of them call themselves Democrats and the other half call themselves Republicans. All the good ideas come from the Libertarians.

Hugh Downs