Richard Dawson Quotations

I abhor grades - if a child does his best, that's all that should be asked.

About 30 million people see me every week - I'm a happy man.

I'm a hustler. I'm a smartass, but I love people.

Jack's a real good guy and he runs me clean and I run him clean. There was a lot of lapped traffic out there tonight. It seemed to always be in the way. But that's a part of racing. They pay their money just as much as everybody else.

ABC has told me that a sponsor has complained about my making anti-Nixon jokes. I would just like to say that I believe Mr. Nixon did his best to destroy this country.

I've had the most incredible luck in my career. I've done lots and lots of jobs, and I've never, ever had a job like Family Feud. I've never dreamed I would ever have a job where so many people could touch me and I could touch them. And it was a great magic about this show that I've never seen on any other show.

I never presumed to tell anyone who could make a rainbow what color to make children.

God bless all the little children in the world.

I've had the most incredible luck in my career,

I never dreamed I would have a job in which so many people could touch me and I could touch them.

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.

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.

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?

I've never stopped working on songs and practising singing and guitar.

You wouldn't want to move if you sat next to me on the bus. Or maybe you would.

Hogan's Heroes' lasted longer than the war.

It's wonderful to win, but don't get cocky about it!

Sometimes, when you do the music for a play, there are very clear boundaries as to what needs to be achieved. You're very much a little cog in a much bigger machine.

Be nice to each other. You can make a whole day a different day for everybody.

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.'

If I never do another thing, I've met the good sweet people of the world