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Wikipedia Summary for Art Linkletter
Arthur Gordon Linkletter (born Gordon Arthur Kelly or Arthur Gordon Kelly; sources differ), July 17, 1912 – May 26, 2010) was 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, which aired on NBC radio and television for 19 years. He became a naturalized United States citizen in 1942.
Old clips from Linkletter's House Party program were later featured as segments on the first incarnation of Kids Say the Darndest Things. A series of books followed which contained the humorous comments made on-air by children. He appeared in four films.
Each generation has been an education for us in different ways. The first child with bloody nose was rushed to the emergency room. The fifth child with bloody nose was told to go to the yard immediately and stop bleeding on the carpet.
Just smiling goes a long way toward making you feel better about life. And when you feel better about life, your life is better.
The two best interview subjects are children under 10 and people over 70 for the same reason: they say the first thing that comes to their mind. The children don't know what they're saying and the old folks don't care.
Diplomacy -- the art of jumping into trouble without making a splash.
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.
Each generation has been an education for us in different ways. The first child-with-bloody-nose was rushed to the emergency room. The fifth child-with-bloody-nose was told to go to the yard immediately and stop bleeding on the carpet.
I eat a lowfat diet, think positively, get exercise every day.
Troubadours travelled from town to town. They didn't really sing too good, which is the main reason they kept going.
If you don't go far enough back in memory or far enough ahead in hope, your future will be impoverished.
Kids do say the darndest things.
Posterity is the patriotic name for grandchildren.
People find gold in fields, veins, river beds, and pockets. Whichever, it takes work to get it out.
Do a little more than you're paid to. Give a little more than you have to. Try a little harder than you want to. Aim a little higher than you think possible, and give a lot of thanks to God for health, family, and friends.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
I like what I'm doing. Today at 88, I wouldn't think of quitting because I can't think of anything else I would rather do. And now with my lectures on all the charitable things that I do, just as you do, I think that what I'm doing matters.
Yes, I backed the hula hoop. And I had a lot of other people come to me with ideas that turned out well.
I grew up poor. I never had any money. I was a hobo, you know, ride the freights.
The depths of the Depression. You didn't ask what the job was, what the pay was, you didn't ask about stock options, or -- you said yes.
My philosophy is to do the best you can for somebody. Help. It's not just what do you for yourself. It's how you treat people decently. The golden rule. There isn't big anything better than the golden rule. It's in every major religion in one language or another.
A finished product is one that has already seen its better days.
One of the wonderful things about going to a small college is you can get into everything.
I've learned it's always better to have a small percentage of a big success, than a hundred percent of nothing.
I stand fearlessly for small dogs, the American Flag, motherhood and the Bible. That's why people love me.
Sometimes I'm asked by kids why I condemn marijuana when I haven't tried it. The greatest obstetricians in the world have never been pregnant.
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.
The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.