Willard Scott Quotes
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Why do we love our grandparents so much? Part of the reason I think has to do with the tremendous natural affection and affinity that kids have for older people, whether they are their actual grandparents or not.
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It's simply a tragedy that anyone today goes blind from glaucoma, when it's so unnecessary.
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Bryant Gumbel's ego has applied for statehood. And if it's accepted, it will be the fifth-largest.
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Nature's a tranquilizer as you get older.
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Viewers figure, 'Uncle Willard doesn't know any more about the weather than I do.' They're right.
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These days, you have to have a gimmick to do the weather. You have to have an act.
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August depresses me a little. I don't even feel like eating. And when I don't eat, that's a sure sign of stagnation.
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I've produced more pilots than United Airlines, and they've all been disasters. Every audition I ever took in my life I lost.
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There is something endearing about the weatherman.
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If I go down in for anything in history, I would like to be known as the person who convinced the American people that catfish is one of the finest eating fishes in the world.
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Nobody actually talks to anybody anymore. People in cubicles next to each other, they e-mail each other.
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I had the privilege of having two sets of loving grandparents.
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I have the best job in the entire history of broadcasting.
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Everyone complains about the weather, but nobody ever seems to do anything about it.
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The critics - how come you never see any of them on TV?
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Tom Browkaw said it best. He said NBC could survive without him or the rest of the news division, but not Nancy Fields.
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My dad was an agent for Met Life. In the '50s, I remember the mortality rate was something like - you had - 58 was the average age. Then it was moved up to 62, and then 65, 68.
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Remember Judy Garland? She retired 40 times.
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The only way to predict if there's a cloud on your horizon due to glaucoma is to get tested. No matter what the diagnosis, the forecast is for clear vision in the years ahead.
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Thanksgiving just gets me all warm and tingly and all kinds of wonderful inside.
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People over 100 are the fastest-growing group in America. People soon will be working 'til 100 - some because they have to - and living 'til 125 or even 135. What do I know, I'm just a weatherman, but I've made a hobby of studying this, and it's phenomenal.
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I talk too much. I eat too much.
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I got more mail than anybody on the history of The Today Show, but half of it was to get me off the air.
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I'm Southern Baptist, not a meteorologist.