The best Quotes by Bill Moyers

No one does children's stories like Maurice Sendak.

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.

If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them more than the miracles of technology. We must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was in the beginning, not just after we got through with it.

When the Oakies left Oklahoma and moved to California, it raised the I.Q. of both states.

Here in Oklahoma, there's not a whole lot to do. So, a lot of your focus and attention is on basketball, which is a blessing in disguise. And this is where I wanted to end up, so I'm very happy I'm here.

Sheldon: "Texas, Oklahoma... what's the difference?"
Meemaw: "Hey, now, I think you might want to crack open your psychology textbook 'cause that there is crazy talk."

Do you know why Oklahoma's state slogan is "Oklahoma is OK"?
Because they can't spell "mediocre".

"Why did Oklahoma raise the minimum drinking age to 25?"
"They wanted to keep alcohol out of the high schools!"

Governor is not the position to have in Oklahoma. It is the head coach of Oklahoma or Oklahoma State or Tulsa.

Something called 'the Oklahoma Standard' became known throughout the world. It means resilience in the face of adversity. It means a strength and compassion that will not be defeated.

They say money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a flight to Oklahoma - and that's pretty much the same thing.

And the wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws.

Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.

Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children's letters -- sometimes very hastily -- but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, 'Dear Jim: I loved your card." Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, 'Jim loved your card so much he ate it." That to me was one of the highest compliments I've ever received. He didn't care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.

Please don't go. We'll eat you up. We love you so.

There must be more to life than having everything.

There is no such thing as fantasy unrelated to reality.

Then from far away across the world he smelled good things to eat, so he gave up being king of the wild things.

I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can't stop them. They leave me and I love them more.

You cannot write for children. They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them.

Happiness is not always the best way to be happy.

And Max, the king of all wild things, was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all.

One candidate is too old and mentally unfit to be president. The other one is me.