Richard Dawson famous quotes

05-15-2025

And I asked my mother about it; I said, 'Is there something wrong?' She said, 'God... God makes people. You understand that, don't you?' And I said, 'Yeah!' She said, 'Who makes a rainbow?" I said, 'God.' She said, 'I never presumed to tell anyone who could make a rainbow what color to make children.'
-- Richard Dawson

#Mother #Children #Color
Hogan's Heroes' lasted longer than the war.
-- Richard Dawson

#War #Hero
You wouldn't want to move if you sat next to me on the bus. Or maybe you would.
-- Richard Dawson

#Moving #Want #Next
It's important to me that on 'Family Feud' I could kiss all the people. It sounds crazy but when I first came here Petula Clark was on a show with Nat King Cole and he kissed her on the cheek and eighty-one stations in the South canceled him. I kissed black women daily and nightly on 'Family Feud' and the world didn't come to an end, did it?
-- Richard Dawson

#Kings #Crazy #Kissing
Be nice to each other. You can make a whole day a different day for everybody.
-- Richard Dawson

#Nice #Different #Being Nice
The first time I ever saw people of any color was when D-Day left from my hometown in England, to go and free Europe from the war. And there was every color you could imagine, and I'd not seen that in England.
-- Richard Dawson

#War #Color #Europe
About 30 million people see me every week - I'm a happy man.
-- Richard Dawson

#Men #People #Week
If I never do another thing, I've met the good sweet people of the world
-- Richard Dawson

#Sweet #People #World
I never dreamed I would have a job in which so many people could touch me and I could touch them.
-- Richard Dawson

#Jobs #People #Touch Me
I've had the most incredible luck in my career,
-- Richard Dawson

#Careers #Luck #Incredibles
God bless all the little children in the world.
-- Richard Dawson

#Children #Littles #World
I never presumed to tell anyone who could make a rainbow what color to make children.
-- Richard Dawson

#Children #Color #Rainbow
It's wonderful to win, but don't get cocky about it!
-- Richard Dawson

#Cocky #Winning #Wonderful
There were people I know that got upset that I kiss people. I kiss them for luck and love, that's all. That's what my mother did to me.
-- Richard Dawson

#Mother #Kissing #People
I abhor grades - if a child does his best, that's all that should be asked.
-- Richard Dawson

#Children #Doe #Should

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