Harry Reasoner famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Journalism is a kind of profession, or craft, or racket, for people who never wanted to grow up and go out into the real world.
-- Harry Reasoner

#Growing Up #Real #People
This is why being a helicopter pilot is so different from being an airplane pilot, and why in generality, airplane pilots are open, clear-eyed, buoyant extroverts, and helicopter pilots are brooding introspective anticipators of trouble. They know if something bad has not happened it is about to.
-- Harry Reasoner

#Airplane #Extroverts #Pilots
Statistics are to baseball what a flaky crust is to Mom's apple pie....
-- Harry Reasoner

#Mom #Baseball #Apples
When 25 percent of the population believe the President should be impeached and 51 percent of the population believe in UFOs, you may or may not need a new President, but you definitely need a new population
-- Harry Reasoner

#Believe #President #Population
The thing is helicopters are different from airplanes An airplane by it's nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or incompetent piloting, it will fly
-- Harry Reasoner

#Airplane #Events #Different
If you're a good journalist, what you do is live a lot of things vicariously, and report them for other people who want to live vicariously.
-- Harry Reasoner

#People #Want #Journalist
We're all controlled neurotics.
-- Harry Reasoner
So if a Christian is touched only once a year, the touching is still worth it, and maybe on some given Christmas, some quiet morning, the touch will take.
-- Harry Reasoner

#Christmas #Christian #Morning
The thing is, helicopters are different from planes. An airplane by it's nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or by a deliberately incompetent pilot, it will fly. A helicopter does not want to fly. It is maintained in the air by a variety of forces and controls working in opposition to each other, and if there is any disturbance in this delicate balance the helicopter stops flying; immediately and disastrously. There is no such thing as a gliding helicopter.
-- Harry Reasoner

#Airplane #Flying #Balance

Growing up on a farm was the best. I remember loving that expanse of space. The sky at night was so clear, I could see every star.
Kids grow up awfully fast these days,"she said. "You should try to have a good relationship with your kids, no matter what they do.
You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
You can't have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.
This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn't want them to lose friends. He is his family's hero.
I was the kid growing up who would play with G.I. Joes in a pink dress and then run off to play with my Barbies. It doesn't mean that I'm less girly, it just means that I have this other side of me. It's kinda cool to be a little bit of both, I think.
Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'
There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.
God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.
There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.

Harry Reasoner famous quotes

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