Paul Harvey Quotes

Paul Harvey delivers straight-talk news and quirky health bits that feel like a classic radio broadcast.

68 quotes

Hello, Americans, This is Paul Harvey. Standby for news.

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Good morning Americans ...

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Good morning Americans -- it's Friday!

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Hello, Americans, this is Paul Harvey, and this... is... Saturday.

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Hello Americans, I'm Paul Harvey. You know what the news is -- in a minute, you're going to hear the rest of the story.

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And now you know -- the rest of the story.

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Join me later today for this 'Rest of the Story' story ... over this ABC Radio Network station.

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Page Two ...

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And now ... Page Three

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Page Four ...

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When we get together during our noontime visit ...

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Paul Harvey ... Good Day!

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(Paul, Jr.) -- 'Paul Harvey ... News & Comment. Brought to you by _____________________. Now ... Paul Harvey News.'

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(Paul, Jr.) -- 'Paul Harvey News & Comment. This program came to you from Chicago. This is the ABC Radio Network'

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Good Day!

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Just what not why...

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It's not one world.

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Today's quote worth requoting...

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Now wash out your ears with this.

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Now ... for what it's worth.

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In USA Today ... today.

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'In shirt-sleeve English ...'

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Holy Shamoley ...

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In times like these, it's helpful to remember that there have always been times like these.

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Republicans always pull down the shades though there is seldom a reason. Democrats never pull down the shades though they always should.

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'I'll tell you what let's do'.

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At Harvey House ...

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My darling Angel ...

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Young son Paul ...

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Allllll right!

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It's a ... a ... Tru ... Value!

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C ... as in citrus ... Cal as in Calcium ... Cit-ri-cal.

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When pitching a popular product, he is known to say, 'People are ordering and re-re-re-ordering...'

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'Coffee's good for you, coffee's bad for you...' {followed by the latest conflicting medical or science announcement}

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'Mr. President [Richard Nixon], I love you, but you're wrong. (on the Vietnam War)'

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'... we sent men with rifles into Afghanistan and Iraq and kept our best weapons in their silos.' (2005 broadcast)

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'Golf is a game in which you yell 'Fore!', shoot six, and write down five ...'

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'If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then 9 times out of ten it will.'

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Stay in your seat come times of trouble. Its only people who jump off the roller coaster who get hurt.
Dependency arguments often come from elites - either aid agencies or governments - and say something about attitudes to poor people.
A policeman must know everything - and not tell. He must know where all the sin is and not partake.
The years don't always add wisdom, but they do add perspective.
The policeman must be a minister, a social worker, a diplomat, a tough guy, and a gentleman. And, of course, he'd have to be a genius... For he will have to feed a family on a policeman's salary.
You can always tell when you are on the road to success; it's uphill all the way.
Fathers are men who give daughters away to other men who aren't nearly good enough...so they can have grandchildren who are smarter than anybody's.
The spirit of interdependence will not cost us more than it's worth. On the steep slope ahead, holding hands is necessary. And it just might be that we can learn to enjoy it.
Cut out the free feed for the boss hogs at the public trough and the spill-over they've been leaving us. We'll manage.
For me the breath really is the tool which allows you to understand what's happening on the mental level and what's happening on the emotional level, and it also allows you to measure what's happening on a physical level.
Man — despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments — owes his existence to a six inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.
Growth is the process of responding positively to change.
What is a policeman made of? He, of all men, is once the most needed and the most unwanted. He's a strangely nameless creature who is 'Sir' to his face and 'Fuzz' to his back.
For me, success is, during this early pilgrimage, to leave the woodpile a little higher than I found it.
Not everybody wants to call sin 'sin'! Some call it mischief. Some call it rebellion. And hardly anybody can agree where we should draw the line. ... Our courts are ... trying to define pornography, yet moral law is very specific to any reader of God's Word.
It was self-serving politicians who convinced recent generations of Americans that we could all stand in a circle with our hands in each other’s pockets and somehow get rich.
As industry's tycoons of the Thirties got their wings clipped, labor's leaders in the Eighties are getting their wings clipped. Not because of any class-related antagonism, but because any excess, ultimately, is its own undoing.
In small towns as well as large, good people outnumber bad people by 100 to 1. In big towns the 100 are nervous. But in small towns, it's the one.
I hope someday to have so much of what the world calls success, that people will ask me, "What's your secret?" and I will tell them, "I just get up again when I fall down."
Like what you do. If you don't like it, do something else.
When Dr. Manner reported on the total remission of breast cancer in lab animals (Using 'Laetrile in conjunction with vitamins and enzymes')..., ACS President, Ben Byrd, criticised (him) for making his announcement in public, and said such announcements should be made only in a proper scientific forum.
If 'pro' is the opposite of 'con' what is the opposite of 'progress'?
Communism has defeated itself everywhere except... in American colleges.
If we cannot count on ourselves to do the right thing how can we count on anyone or anything else? Self-government won't work without self-discipline.
The indignation of politicians is NOT a good measure of the gravity of any situation.
All my life I wanted to play golf like Jack Nicklaus, and now I do.
Self-government won't work without self-discipline.
Golf is a game in which you yell "for," shoot six, and write down five.
Breath is perhaps the first thing we have in life. It's how we measure the starting of life and it's how we measure the ending of life.
I have never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.