Roy Rogers Quotes

#1. But now I'm beginning to care again - a little - and it hurts - it's really more convenient not to have any hopes and fears.

James Hilton

#2. When I was nine, I was singing western swing: Roy Rogers and Patsy Cline. It got me noticed because no one my age was doing it, but it made me feel inferior because none of my friends could relate to it.

Kacey Musgraves

#3. The world changed. Hollywood changed. I think we've lost something, and we don't know how to get it back.

Roy Rogers

#4. Lee Ann Womack is from near where I grew up in East Texas, so I've always looked up to her. I sang a lot of Dolly Parton as a kid and a lot of traditional western swing, like Patsy Cline and Roy Rogers.

Kacey Musgraves

#5. The station put us on staff at $35 a week ... and I mean every week.

Roy Rogers

#6. When you're young and fall off a horse, you may break something. When you're my age and you fall off, you splatter.

Roy Rogers

#7. We were so far back in the woods, they almost had to pipe in sunlight.

Roy Rogers

#8. Did you see the picture of Roy Rogers's horse attending a church service in Pasadena? I forgot whether his name was Tex or Trigger but he was dressed fit to kill and looked like he was having a good time. He doubled the usual attendance.

Flannery O'Connor

#9. Marlene Dietrich and Roy Rogers are the only two living humans who should be allowed to wear black leather pants.

Edith Head

#10. When my time comes, just skin me and put me up there on Trigger, just as though nothing had ever changed.

Roy Rogers

#11. I grew up as a Roy Rogers fan, of course.

Phil Everly

#12. They'll Have to shoot me first to take my Gun.

Roy Rogers

#13. I'm always astonished by the confidence my readers put in me.

Mary Karr

#14. I was raised on a little farm about 12 miles out of Portsmouth, Ohio.

Roy Rogers

#15. Like God, Christmas is timeless and eternal, from everlasting to everlasting. It is something even more than what happened that night in starlit little Bethlehem; it has been behind the stars forever. There was Christmas in the heart of God before the world was formed.

Roy Rogers

#16. If there were no valleys of sadness and death, we could never really appreciate the sunshine of happiness on the mountain top.

Roy Rogers

#17. I did pretty good for a guy who never finished high school and used to yodel at square dances.

Roy Rogers

#18. I'm an introvert at heart ... And show business - even though I've loved it so much - has always been hard for me.

Roy Rogers

#19. Today they're making pictures that I wouldn't want Trigger to see.

Roy Rogers

#20. I love a good Roy Rogers or Shirley Temple, and I had to give those up. And Philly cheesesteaks. I love Philly cheesesteaks, and now they really aren't around anymore.

Ron Funches

#21. What's a butterfly garden without butterflies?

Roy Rogers

#22. I grew up in Alice, Texas, a small oil town with one theater that only showed Roy Rogers movies. So when I got the role, I had never even seen a Bond film and had only had a vague notion about the idea of a Bond girl.

Lois Chiles

#23. Christmas is telling time-wondering time. Wonder enough about it, and you'll know, and you'll tell about it ...

Roy Rogers

#24. Trophies are clutter at best, and weapons at worst. I prefer my awards heavy and with handles.

Jarod Kintz

#25. You couldn't beg, borrow, or steal a job in 1931, 1932 ... it was really tough.

Roy Rogers

#26. When I was a little girl, my favorite television show starred Roy Rogers and Dale Evans- the queen of the cowgirls." Mrs. Coley explained. "Dale wore a fancy fringed leather skirt and rode a buckskin horse named Buttermilk ...
"Thank heavens for Dale Evans," she said with a sigh.

Terri Farley

#27. It looked like Roy Rogers rode through on Trigger, and Trigger kicked the guy in the face.

Mickey Mantle

#28. People are always asking me why they don't make Westerns like they used to.

Roy Rogers

#29. Until we meet again, may the good Lord take a liking to you.

Roy Rogers

#30. Don't worry whether or not I am now happy. Today is only chapter one, we have yet to write a book.

Lois Wyse

#31. And as the hour approached for the execution, in his own mind, Collins became both the executioner and the victim. He would pace up and down, transformed in almost a kind of exorcism when he knew he was responsible for taking someone's life.

Liam Neeson

#32. Now they were satisfied to express their individuality through which Rogers they preferred at the Saturday matinee: Ginger or Roy or Buck. America may be the land of opportunity, but in New York it's the shot at conformity that pulls them through the door

Amor Towles

#33. I grew up with the television product being old Western serials like Roy Rogers, and John Wayne and Gary Cooper, and many others were my favorites when I was a young person going to films.

Steve Kanaly

#34. A phrase that would have sent Michael into ecstasies of loathing. Sort of Einstein meets Jayne Mansfield ... Hitler meets Roy Rogers.

Janet Fitch