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Famous Garrison Keillor Quotes

“I like to sing and it's just really fun to sing, and I don't get too much. And at my house I'm not allowed to because, you know, your children can't stand it when you sing at home.”

Knows Children Home House Fun Too Much Our Children Your Children

Author:Garrison Keillor

“A child can educate just about anybody.”

Children Educate

Author:Garrison Keillor

“Forget what you learned about poetry in school. (That it's complex, opaque, a problem to be solved in 1500 words by tomorrow.) Poetry is the last preserve of honest speech and the outspoken heart. It holds the cadence of common life. It has a passion for truth and justice and liberty; it is a buoy to people in ordinary trouble: to a friend whose life has gone skidding into the meridian, who has been struck by bad news, who is frying eggs and hash browns and has whiny child clinging to his pant leg.”

“Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.”

Men Children Strong Parenting Average Welcome Lakes Strong Women Looking Good Above Average Lake Wobegon Good Looking Men

Author:Garrison Keillor

“Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.”

Children Seems Eye Family Teaching Offers Thanks Single Mom Single Parent Hovering Efforts Wasted Lake Wobegon

Book:Leaving Home

Source: Leaving Home

“I'm not busy... a woman with three children under the age of 10 wouldn't think my schedule looked so busy.”

Thinking Children Age Three Busy Schedules Busy Life

Author:Garrison Keillor

“Nothing you do for children is ever wasted.”

Children Single Parent Hovering Inspirational Parenting Efforts Wasted Lake Wobegon

Book:Leaving Home

Source: Leaving Home

“Selective ignorance, a cornerstone of child rearing. You don't put kids under surveillance: it might frighten you. Parents should sit tall in the saddle and look upon their troops with a noble and benevolent and extremely nearsighted gaze.”

Should Looks Children Might Kids Parent Ignorance Noble Tall Troops Surveillance Benevolent Selective Cornerstones Saddles Child Rearing Rearing A Child

Book:Leaving Home

Source: Leaving Home

“It's important for survival that children have their own experiences, the kind they learn from. The kind their parents arrange for are not as useful. Good parents are the hardest to get rid of.”

Kind Children Important Parent Survival Hardest Good Parent

Author:Garrison Keillor

“Children can find other children to be pals. Children need fathers to be fathers.”

Needs Children Father Dad Being A Father Pals

Book:Lake Wobegon Days

Source: Lake Wobegon Days

“Cleverness is a burden after that. You are supposed to settle down and be a good person, raise your children, and be good to your friends, which you may not have been back when you were clever.”

May Children Persons Has Beens Our Children Down And Raises Burden Be Good Clever Settling Your Children Good Person Back When Cleverness Settling Down Being A Good Person

Author:Garrison Keillor

About the Author

Born: August 7, 1942
Known for: Author
Quotes: 269

Books & Sources

Lake Wobegon DaysRelated source material

We Are Still Married: Stories and LettersRelated source material

Homegrown Democrat: A Few Plain Thoughts from the Heart of AmericaRelated source material

Leaving HomeRelated source material

Pontoon: A Lake Wobegon NovelRelated source material

The Book of Guys: StoriesRelated source material

Love MeRelated source material

A Christmas Blizzard: A NovelRelated source material

Wobegon BoyRelated source material

A Prairie Home Companion Pretty Good Joke Book 6th EditionRelated source material

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