Irv Kupcinet famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.
-- Irv Kupcinet

#Thanksgiving Day #Optimist #Persons
Air pollution is turning Mother Nature prematurely gray.
-- Irv Kupcinet

#Mother #Air #Environment
What can you say about a society that says God is dead and Elvis is alive?
-- Irv Kupcinet

#Society #Alive
I've reported murders, scandals, marriages, premieres and national political conventions. I've been amused, intrigued, outraged, enthralled and exasperated by Chicago. And I've come to love this American giant, viewing it as the most misunderstood, most underrated city in the world. There is none other quite like my City of Big Shoulders.
-- Irv Kupcinet

#Cities #Political #Misunderstood
A girl is grown up when she stops counting on her fingers and starts counting on her legs.
-- Irv Kupcinet

#Girl #Legs #Counting

A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.
Thanksgiving-day, I fear, If one the solemn truth must touch, Is celebrated, not so much To thank the Lord for blessing o'er, As for the sake of getting more!
On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.
I don't know if the optimists or the pessimists are right. But, the optimists are going to get something done.
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
I've always been an optimist.
Everybody's always looking for the person they're better than
Anybody who has interacted with me will definitely find me to be a chirpy person.
But let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.
Thousands upon thousands of persons have studied disease. Almost no one has studied health.

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