Roy Rogers Quotations

Until we meet again, may the good Lord take a liking to you.

I'm an introvert at heart... And show business - even though I've loved it so much - has always been hard for me.

Today they're making pictures that I wouldn't want Trigger to see.

I did pretty good for a guy who never finished high school and used to yodel at square dances.

People are always asking me why they don't make Westerns like they used to.

I was raised on a little farm about 12 miles out of Portsmouth, Ohio.

The world changed. Hollywood changed. I think we've lost something, and we don't know how to get it back.

You couldn't beg, borrow, or steal a job in 1931, 1932... it was really tough.

We were so far back in the woods, they almost had to pipe in sunlight.

So many people loved him through the years, that I just didn't have the heart to put him in the ground.

We make up most of our history around here, ... Codger.

We'd put some zip to it, add some character, some identity.

Cowboys weren't allowed to kiss girls in pictures, so one time I gave Dale a little peck on the forehead and we got a ton of letters to leave that mushy stuff out, ... So I had to kiss Trigger instead.

I use mainly a glass slide. It has a completely different tone and feel from a metal slide. A lot of people play slide and put it on for a few tunes, but I have it on at all times. I completely incorporate it into my style.

The station put us on staff at $35 a week... and I mean every week.

It's a trio, but it's really an ensemble. When you come to one of my shows, it's not just two guys backing me up. That would be boring.

They'll have to shoot me first to take my gun

I'm an introvert at heart, ... And show business -- even though I've loved it so much -- has always been hard for me.

If I could teach the kids to identify and appreciate their natural environment, then they will have a sense of place and care about Weston.

The station put us on staff at $35 a week... and I mean every week.

Christmas is telling time-wondering time. Wonder enough about it, and you'll know, and you'll tell about it....

Like God, Christmas is timeless and eternal, from everlasting to everlasting. It is something even more than what happened that night in starlit little Bethlehem; it has been behind the stars forever. There was Christmas in the heart of God before the world was formed.

What's a butterfly garden without butterflies?

When my time comes, just skin me and put me up there on Trigger, just as though nothing had ever changed.

When you're young and fall off a horse, you may break something. When you're my age and you fall off, you splatter.

I always feel a responsibility to the kids, to be somebody they could look up to.

If there were no valleys of sadness and death, we could never really appreciate the sunshine of happiness on the mountain top.