Lake Wobegon Quotes

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

  Garrison Keillor

  Strong Women, Children, Parenting

  A Prairie Home Companion (radio series) (1974 - 1987)

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• We have nearly complete misunderstanding between people of different faiths in Lake Wobegon, and that's probably one reason why we get along so very well. It's when you are trying to convince another person to think the same way that you do that there is friction and trouble between people. But when you feel that the other person is dumber than dirt, too dumb for words - why waste your breath - you get along pretty well. There's no bond between people that's quite so strong as when people each feel slightly superior towards the other one.

  Garrison Keillor

  Strong, Thinking, Lakes

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• Lake Wobegon, the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve.

  Garrison Keillor

  Lakes, Littles, Towns

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• Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.

  Garrison Keillor

  Thank You, Thanksgiving, Forgiveness

  Garrison Keillor (1990). “Leaving Home”, p.17, Penguin

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• 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.

  Garrison Keillor

  Family, Children, Single Mom

  Garrison Keillor (1990). “Leaving Home”, p.23, Penguin

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  Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.

  Garrison Keillor

  Love, Goodbye, Farewell

  Traditional sign-off for "The Writer's Almanac" radio show, 1993 - 2017.

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• God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.

  Garrison Keillor

  Funny, Life, Encouraging

  "Happy to be Here". Book by Garrison Keillor, 1983.

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• In Lake Wobegon, we don't forget mistakes.

  Garrison Keillor

  Forgiveness, Mistake, Lakes

  Garrison Keillor (1990). “Lake Wobegon Days”, p.221, Penguin

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• Beauty isn't worth thinking about; what's important is your mind. You don't want a fifty-dollar haircut on a fifty-cent head. ~Garrison Keillor

  Garrison Keillor

  Beauty, Beautiful, Thinking

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• A book is a gift you can open again and again.

  Garrison Keillor

  Happiness, Christmas, Thank You

  Attributed to Keillor in "The Miracle of Language" by Richard Lederer, p. 149, 1999.

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• Nothing you do for children is ever wasted.

  Garrison Keillor

  Children, Hovering, Single Parent

  Garrison Keillor (1990). “Leaving Home”, p.23, Penguin

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• The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.

  Garrison Keillor

  Daughter, Fathers Day, Running

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• Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.

  Garrison Keillor

  Nature, Cat, Garden

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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  When the country goes temporarily to the dogs, cats must learn to be circumspect, walk on fences, sleep in trees, and have faith that all this woofing is not the last word.

  Garrison Keillor

  Country, Dog, Sleep

  "We Are Still Married : Stories & Letters". Book by Garrison Keillor, "The Meaning of Life" (p. 217), 1989.

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• A girl in a bikini is like having a loaded pistol on your coffee table - There's nothing wrong with them, but it's hard to stop thinking about it.

  Garrison Keillor

  Girl, Coffee, Thinking

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• Before the world was made, when it was only darkness and mist and waters, God was well aware of Lake Wobegon, my family, our house, and He had me all sketched out down to what size my feet would be (big), which bike I would ride (Schwinn), and the five ears of corn I'd eat for supper that night.

  Garrison Keillor

  God, Night, Lakes

  Garrison Keillor (1990). “Lake Wobegon Days”, p.18, Penguin

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• A boy wrote me once to say that he loved it when the news from Lake Wobegon came on the radio because it meant that his parents stopped arguing. That was an eye-opener for me. You work hard to polish your act and then you find out that it does people good in ways you couldn't predict.

  Garrison Keillor

  Hard Work, Eye, Boys

  Source: jonathanlowe.wordpress.com

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• I write for a radio show that, no matter what, will go on the air Saturday at five o'clock central time. You learn to write toward that deadline, to let the adrenaline pick you up on Friday morning and carry you through, to cook up a monologue about Lake Wobegon and get to the theater on time.

  Garrison Keillor

  Friday, Morning, Writing

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