Town Crier Quotes

#1. I was always fond of visiting new scenes, and observing strange characters and manners. Even when a mere child I began my travels, and made many tours of discovery into foreign parts and unknown regions of my native city, to the frequent alarm of my parents, and the emolument of the town-crier.

Washington Irving

#2. I love hearing stories, telling stories, sharing stories. I've shared 37,000 on the Oprah show! Every day I was like the town crier.

Oprah Winfrey

#3. The Coppersmith is a bird who makes a noise exactly like the beating of a little hammer on a copper pot; and the reason he is always making it is because he is the town crier to every Indian garden, and tells all the news to everybody who cares to listen.

Rudyard Kipling

#4. One role blends into the next role. I mean, there's strange idiosyncrasies from roles that I play that I picked up that will never go away.

Jake Gyllenhaal

#5. If we were all as wise as we should be, we would have no stories to tell

Freeman Wills Croft

#6. If our opinions rest upon solid ground, those who attack them do not make us angry, but themselves ridiculous.

John Lancaster Spalding

#7. Our clothing, while modest and simple, should be of good quality ... It should be chosen for durability rather than display.

Ellen G. White

#8. A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.

Lord Chesterfield

#9. One missing child is one too many.

John Walsh