55 Quotes by Art Linkletter

Yes, I backed the hula hoop. And I had a lot of other people come to me with ideas that turned out well

I grew up poor. I never had any money. I was a hobo, you know, ride the freights

In the Top 40, half the songs are secret messages to the teen world to drop out, turn on, and groove with the chemicals and light shows at discotheques.

Radio was so important to everybody back then; there was no TV. Columbia Square was the epitome of radio. Everything was modern. It was beautiful.

People find gold in fields, veins, river beds, and pockets. Whichever, it takes work to get it out.

Diplomacy: the art of jumping into trouble without making a splash.

A poor old man held the winning ticket on a half million dollar lottery. Hearing the old man might be surprised at the shock, the local pastor was asked to break the news gradually. The pastor made a customary call, and while visiting casually asked the old man what he would do with a half million dollars if he had it. The old man replied, "why, I'd give half of it to you." Whereupon the pastor dropped dead.

Troubadours travelled from town to town. They didn't really sing too good, which is the main reason they kept going.

A traveling show visited a country town and one of the acts was advertised as a striptease. A small boy begged his mother for a quarter to buy a ticket, but the mother refused, telling her son that if he went to that show he would see something awful. Well, the boy sneaked in the show and the first thing he saw was something awful - his own dad sitting on the front row.