Art Linkletter
Art Linkletter
Arthur Gordon "Art" Linkletterwas a Canadian-born American radio and television personality. He was the host of House Party, which ran on CBS radio and television for 25 years, and People Are Funny, on NBC radio and TV for 19 years...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Show Host
Date of Birth17 July 1912
CountryUnited States of America
hobos poor grew
I grew up poor. I never had any money. I was a hobo, you know, ride the freights
beautiful squares important
Radio was so important to everybody back then; there was no TV. Columbia Square was the epitome of radio. Everything was modern. It was beautiful.
rivers people gold
People find gold in fields, veins, river beds, and pockets. Whichever, it takes work to get it out.
art jumping trouble
Diplomacy: the art of jumping into trouble without making a splash.
winning past men
A poor old man held the winning ticket on a half million dollar lottery. Hearing the old man might be surprised at the shock, the local pastor was asked to break the news gradually. The pastor made a customary call, and while visiting casually asked the old man what he would do with a half million dollars if he had it. The old man replied, "why, I'd give half of it to you." Whereupon the pastor dropped dead.
music towns reason
Troubadours travelled from town to town. They didn't really sing too good, which is the main reason they kept going.
mother country dad
A traveling show visited a country town and one of the acts was advertised as a striptease. A small boy begged his mother for a quarter to buy a ticket, but the mother refused, telling her son that if he went to that show he would see something awful. Well, the boy sneaked in the show and the first thing he saw was something awful - his own dad sitting on the front row.
needs aging grows
No one can keep from aging, but there is no need to grow old.
memories enough your-future
If you don't go far enough back in memory or far enough ahead in hope, your future will be impoverished.
thinking together committees
Committees are to get everybody together and homogenize their thinking.
better-days finished products
A finished product is one that has already seen its better days.
college wonderful wonderful-things
One of the wonderful things about going to a small college is you can get into everything.
patriotic grandmother grandchildren
Posterity is the patriotic name for grandchildren.
song light secret
In the Top 40, half the songs are secret messages to the teen world to drop out, turn on, and groove with the chemicals and light shows at discotheques.