Jean Shepherd Quotations

That reminds me of something that happened to me when I was a yardbird.

That reminds me of something that happened to me when I was a kid.

The hand of fate had dipped into the ragbag of humanity.

In God we trust; all others pay cash.

I had been an eyewitness to a truly historic moment in American pop culture.

Randy lay there like a slug. It was his only defense.

There are fewer things more thrilling in life than lumpy letters. That rattle.

I've met them down in the Cost and Accounting Department, clean-shaven and in white collars. They can't see a damn thing ridiculous about themselves... only about you.

A man today never feels so alive as when he is hurtling from one point to another on the azimuth.

In all my years of New York cab riding I have yet to find the colorful, philosophical cabdriver that keeps popping up on the late movies.

Manhattan cabs are born old.

The truth will always have a market.

Can you imagine 4,000 years passing, and you're not even a memory? Think about it, friends. It's not just a possibility. It is a certainty.

The Bumpuses were so low down on the evolutionary totem pole that they weren't even included in Darwin's famous family tree. They had inbred and ingrown and finally emerged from the Kentucky hills like some remnant of Attila the Hung's barbarian horde. Flick said that they had webbed feet and only three toes. It might have been true.

Some men are Baptists, others Catholics. My father was an Oldsmobile man.

Being a White Sox fan meant measuring victory in terms of defeat. A 6-5 defeat was a good day. A big rally was Wally Moses doubling down the right- field line.

I had woven a tapestry of obscenity that as far as I know is still hanging in space over Lake Michigan.

The reality of what we really are is often times found in the small snips, way down at the bottom of things.