Quotes About The Waltons

#1. 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

#2. America needs to be a lot more like the Waltons and a lot less like the Simpsons.

George H. W. Bush

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. '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

#6. 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

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

Michael Learned

#8. And then he cried, till he laughed again, and laughed and cried together, just as a woman does. I

Bram Stoker

#9. If you're powerful enough you can even determine whom you will meet and whom you will avoid long before you meet them.

Frederick Lenz

#10. How ironic it is that our instincts often run exactly opposite from what we truly desire for those we love.

R.A. Salvatore

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

Earl Hamner Jr.

#12. 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

#13. They say that every person, every venture, every city has a place where the road splits and you have to choose your direction.

Guy A Johnson

#14. Manners make the world work. They're not only based on kindness but also efficiency. When people know what to do, the world is smoother. When no one knows what to do, it's chaos.

Letitia Baldrige

#15. And then I am going to rattle the stars.

Sarah J. Maas

#16. Many times I've gone on tours with Paul Anka. He would have someone sitting behind him to keep people from even talking to him. You were almost in a little restricted area there.

Ben E. King

#17. I've always been interested with the idea of technology and the way technology affects our ability to communicate - our ability to have a rewarding experience with technology versus a kind of dehumanizing experience with technology.

Marco Brambilla