Willard Scott Quotes
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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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When I was just starting out in the business, I used to love to watch Lorne Greene doing the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. I said right then, 'That's what I want to do someday,' and it's been one dream that has come true.
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Never slap a man who chews tobacco.
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Thanksgiving just gets me all warm and tingly and all kinds of wonderful inside.
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I've always had a reputation as a buffoon.
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I think women can cope a lot better than men.
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I go to McDonald's at least once a week. I always get a No. 2.
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The best cookies of all in the world are the ones my daughter Sally makes. They come out all uniform with nice little air holes.
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Take a microphone out of my hands, and I'm just plain folks.
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Having a phobia has changed me.
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I talk too much. I eat too much.
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No libraries, no progress.
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I'd like to do 'Saturday Night Live.'
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In high school, I weighed 175 to 180. I looked like Abraham Lincoln. I was 6-foot-3, biggest thing in the class, but tall, not fat.
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I want to get my own show because 'Today' will eventually get tired of me, or the audience will get tired of me.
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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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When something's over with me, it's over.
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I wore dresses all the time. I like to wear dresses.
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A good marriage is like an incredible retirement fund. You put everything you have into it during your productive life, and over the years it turns from silver to gold to platinum.
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I get all fired up about aging in America.
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Just do the math. In the next 50 to 75 years, people will be living to be 130 and 140. They'll be working until they're 100. It's incredible.
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My grandmother was a typical farm-family mother. She would regularly prepare dinner for thirty people, and that meant something was always cooking in the kitchen. All of my grandmother's recipes went back to her grandmother.
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I loved Harry Truman with all my heart and soul.
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As an only child, I never felt insecure and always had total love.