Willard Scott Quotes
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I have the best job in the entire history of broadcasting.
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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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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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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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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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No libraries, no progress.
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I've always had a reputation as a buffoon.
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There is something endearing about the weatherman.
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I have always said that the best training to be a TV newsman or anybody on television is to do a children's show because you are oblivious to the fact that there is a camera there.
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When something's over with me, it's over.
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I'd like to do 'Saturday Night Live.'
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Take a microphone out of my hands, and I'm just plain folks.
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I go to McDonald's at least once a week. I always get a No. 2.
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I wore dresses all the time. I like to wear dresses.
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Thanksgiving just gets me all warm and tingly and all kinds of wonderful inside.
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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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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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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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Having a phobia has changed me.
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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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When I can, I do 25 minutes of calisthenics every day.
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I get all fired up about aging in America.
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Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all; and, from belonging to a family that accepts you without question.
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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.