Russell Baker Quotes

After that [father's death] I never cried with any real conviction, nor expected much of anyone's Go...

One of the many burdens of the person professing Christianity has always been the odium likely to be...

The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that ...

Listen once in a while. It's amazing what you can hear.

Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in ...

A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia get...

When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools.

I've had an unhappy life thank God.

We watched some of the movie. It was shocking. Sex is apparently hard labor. Various persons support...

There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems, but most of it is concer...

You can always tell folks from nonfolks. Folks like to feel good, like to smile for the camera when ...

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really pr...

Voters inclined to loathe and fear elite Ivy League schools rarely make fine distinctions between Ya...

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.

When you're the only pea in the pod your parents are likely to get you confused with the Hope diamo...

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best inc...

Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to R...

Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the ...

Americans like fat books and thin women.

A railroad station? That was sort of a primitive airport, only you didn't have to take a cab 20 mile...

So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the off...

Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.

Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of...

When compelled to cook I produce a meal that would make a sword swallower gag.

Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.

Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't wor...

Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all t...

Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime and shoul...

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best inc...

I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passin...

New York is the only city in the world where you can get run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian.