Garrison Keillor: Quotes about people

Garrison Keillor is American radio host and writer. Explore interesting quotes on people.
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“Librarians, Dusty, possess a vast store of politeness. These are people who get asked regularly the dumbest questions on God's green earth. These people tolerate every kind of crank and eccentric and mouth-breather there is.”

Garrison Keillor

"Cowboy Librarians" (13 December 1997)
A Prairie Home Companion
Source: Dusty and Lefty: The Lives of the Cowboys

God , People , Question

“One reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life. People who don't read are trapped in a mine shaft, even if they think the sun is shining.”

Garrison Keillor
Life , People , Books , Thinking

“They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.”

Garrison Keillor

Source: Good Poems for Hard Times

People , Sadness

“Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.”

Garrison Keillor book We Are Still Married: Stories & Letters

Source: We Are Still Married: Stories & Letters

People , Time

“We come from people who brought us up to believe that life is a struggle, and if you should feel really happy, be patient: this will pass.”

Garrison Keillor
Life , People , Feeling , Happiness

“Some people have a love of their fellow man in their hearts, and others require a light anesthetic.”

Garrison Keillor

Source: Life Among the Lutherans

Love , People , Light , Heart

“Minnesota is a state of public-spirited and polite people, where you can get a good cappucino and eat Thai food and find any book you want and yet live on a quiet tree-lined street with a backyard and send your kids to public school. When a state this good hits the jackpot, it can only be an inspiration to everybody.”

Garrison Keillor

"Minnesota's Sensible Plan, TIME (11 September 1995)

People , Books , School , Food

“The party of Lincoln and Liberty was transmogrified into the party of hairy-backed swamp developers and corporate shills, faith-based economists, fundamentalist bullies with Bibles, Christians of convenience, freelance racists, misanthropic frat boys, shrieking midgets of AM radio, tax cheats, nihilists in golf pants, brownshirts in pinstripes, sweatshop tycoons, hacks, fakirs, aggressive dorks, Lamborghini libertarians, people who believe Neil Armstrong's moonwalk was filmed in Roswell, New Mexico, little honkers out to diminish the rest of us, Newt's evil spawn and their Etch-A-Sketch president, a dull and rigid man suspicious of the free flow of information and of secular institutions, whose philosophy is a jumble of badly sutured body parts trying to walk.”

Garrison Keillor

" "We're Not in Lake Wobegon Anymore" In These Times (26 August 2004) http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/979/

People , Faith , Boy , Evil

“Well, they're taking kids out of the country and sending them over there, National Guard kids and Army Reserve. They're sending kids who are barely prepared for this, and they're sending them over there to kill people, which is a serious thing. And to kill not terrorists, but to kill insurgents. I sort of find myself in agreement, uncomfortably, with Patrick Buchanan, who writes about this in his book, Where The Right Went Wrong. And writes that great powers, the way they skidded off the road, was getting involved in wars. That it's the role of great powers to stay out of wars.”

Garrison Keillor

Real Time with Bill Maher (15 October 2004)

War , People , Books , Way

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

Garrison Keillor

"Congress's Shameful Retreat From American Values" in The Chicago Tribune (4 October 2006)

People