Uncle Remus Quotes

#1. The interim is mine

William Shakespeare

#2. I'll take a drive to Beverly Hills
Just before dawn
An' knock the little jockeys
Off the rich people's lawn
An' before they get up
I'll be gone, I'll be gone
Before they get up
I'll be knocking the jockeys off the lawn

Frank Zappa

#3. I spent a lot of my life holding back my cries, and I want to change that because it's not good for me.

Shania Twain

#4. Take what you see on TV, mix in a guy who's turned 30 and still doesn't have a job, throw in some Uncle Remus stories and add a few flies in amber and you have America.

Michael Stipe

#5. The oblivion, and I'll say even the historical error, are a key factor in the creation of a nation, to the extent that the progress of historical studies is often a danger to nationality.

Ernest Renan

#6. So them who can't learn from a tale about critters, just ain't got the ears tuned to listen."
-Uncle Remus in Disney's Song of the South

Jim Korkis

#7. There was his father, looking totally different but exactly the same.
"Hey, son," his dad said, his voice bending in that weird way that America had started to shape it.

Patrick Ness

#8. Not sunflowers, not roses, but rocks in patterned sand grow here. And bloom. - ROBERT HAYDEN, Approximations

Taiye Selasi

#9. Surfers are in tune with the weather because if there's a storm coming, there are waves coming. I love the rain.

Stephanie Gilmore

#10. We met a great many other interesting people, among them Lewis Carroll, author of the immortal "Alice"
but he was only interesting to look at, for he was the silliest and shyest full-grown man I have ever met except "Uncle Remus.

Mark Twain

#11. Joel Chandler Harris, who created a multi billion dollar industry, everything from his books, to Disney's "Song of the South" based upon the Uncle Remus stories. He got his start by transcribing the stories of slave Informants. I'm sure that none them got a dime.

Ishmael Reed

#12. Never underestimate your own ignorance.

Albert Einstein

#13. You can't run away from trouble. There ain't no place that far.

Uncle Remus

#14. To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.

Honore De Balzac

#15. Uncle Remus, who said to Uncle Ben, You're a credit to your rice. Never got a dinner!

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