Quotes for All
Until Eleanor Roosevelt, there was only one or two First Ladies in all of American history who made an impact, who people could even have recognized or identified. And it’s really only been since Jackie Kennedy that there’s been this idea that the family life of the president is such a central thing. Gail Collins
When I went to Brooklyn in 1948 Jackie Robinson was at the height of his brilliant career. Ernie Harwell
I’ve stayed buddies with my old buddy Jackie Slater. I talk to Jackie Slater. I play golf with Marcus Allen a lot. I play golf with Marshall Faulk a lot. My buddy Craig Young, he lives up in New Mexico. I still talk to a lot of the guys. Eric Dickerson
I did the Ed Sullivan show four times. I did the Steve Allen show. I did the Jackie Gleason show. Elvis Presley
Communication Was never big in my house. We sat together over dinner, but the only sound you’d hear was crunching and chewing and the little ones asking for more, please. We lived, all boxed up in invisible containers. We hardly knew the people we called sister or father. Jackie and I were the exceptions to … Read more
I’d much rather see Richard Pryor or Jackie Mason in a theater than in a club. Elayne Boosler
My first concert makes me sound like a real old man. My very first concert was Jackie Wilson. Eddie Murphy
I wound up signing to RCA Victor as a trumpeter, guesting on shows like Jackie Gleason’s Honeymooners. Frankie Avalon
I cannot but feel that the one man, above all others, who deserves the eternal thanks of his own race, and all thinking people, for bringing about baseball’s greatest reform, is Jackie Robinson himself…Certainly baseball people should be eternally grateful for the contribution he made to his own people, and to the game. Ford Frick
There is no such thing as a good paparazzo. A good paparazzo, that’s a paparazzo who has had his camera broken. In fact, they are bandits, thieves of photography. (Statement after photographs were published showing Jackie Onassis sunbathing nude.) Federico Fellini