Garrison Keillor Quotes

Intelligence is like four-wheel drive. It only allows you to get stuck in more remote places.

Kitap, tekrar tekrar açabileceğiniz bir hediyedir.

Book is a gift that you can open again and again.

It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming.

A book is a gift you can open again and again.

To many Americans, whose only knowledge of the North Star State is that it is intensely cold and populated by Swedes and Holsteins, it will come as a surprise to wake up one morning in 2004 and read in the newspaper, "Half of U.S. Economy Now in Hands of Minnesota".

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted.

Beauty isn't worth thinking about; what's important is your mind. You don't want a fifty-dollar haircut on a fifty-cent head. ~Garrison Keillor

Demagogues thrive in dim light.

If you can't trust a Methodist with absolute power to arrest people and not have to say why, then whom can you trust?

You young people learned spelling by the ‘Close Enough’ method.

Jesus said the meek would inherit the earth, but so far all we've gotten is Minnesota and North Dakota.

I’ve put away the clock and now I enjoy the time.

Thank you, dear God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. Thank you for the rain. And for the chance to wake up in three hours and go fishing: I thank you for that now, because I won't feel so thankful then.

Lake Wobegon, where smart doesn't count for so much. A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it's time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer.