Willard Scott Quotes

Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom.

Never slap a man who chews tobacco.

Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all; and, from belonging to a family that accepts you without question.

A good marriage is like an incredible retirement fund. You put everything you have into it during your productive life, and over the years it turns from silver to gold to platinum.

Everyone complains about the weather, but nobody ever seems to do anything about it.

Viewers figure, 'Uncle Willard doesn't know any more about the weather than I do.' They're right.

I got more mail than anybody on the history of The Today Show, but half of it was to get me off the air.

My dad was an agent for Met Life. In the '50s, I remember the mortality rate was something like - you had - 58 was the average age. Then it was moved up to 62, and then 65, 68.

Bryant Gumbel's ego has applied for statehood. And if it's accepted, it will be the fifth-largest.

Everything I've ever done in my life has been a fluke.

People over 100 are the fastest-growing group in America. People soon will be working 'til 100 - some because they have to - and living 'til 125 or even 135. What do I know, I'm just a weatherman, but I've made a hobby of studying this, and it's phenomenal.

Tom Browkaw said it best. He said NBC could survive without him or the rest of the news division, but not Nancy Fields.

Why do we love our grandparents so much? Part of the reason I think has to do with the tremendous natural affection and affinity that kids have for older people, whether they are their actual grandparents or not.

I think women can cope a lot better than men.

The TV weatherman has always been one of the best, most secure jobs. They change anchors, they change the set, producers come and go. But the weather person hangs on forever!

No libraries, no progress.

I get all fired up about aging in America.

There is something endearing about the weatherman.

I have always said that the best training to be a TV newsman or anybody on television is to do a children's show because you are oblivious to the fact that there is a camera there.

These days, you have to have a gimmick to do the weather. You have to have an act.

I'm not the dumbest guy that ever lived.

Having a phobia has changed me.

My grandmother was a typical farm-family mother. She would regularly prepare dinner for thirty people, and that meant something was always cooking in the kitchen. All of my grandmother's recipes went back to her grandmother.

The best cookies of all in the world are the ones my daughter Sally makes. They come out all uniform with nice little air holes.

Thanksgiving just gets me all warm and tingly and all kinds of wonderful inside.