Doomed Quote by Roland Barthes

I secretly understood: the primitive appeal of the hearth. Television is - its irresistible charm - a fire.

— John Updike

Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.

— Alfred Hitchcock

The family dinner table is the cornerstone of civilization and those who 'graze' from refrigerators or in front of the television sets are doomed…

— Judith Martin

Television's contribution to family life has been an equivocal one. For while it has, indeed, kept the members of the family from dispersing, it…

— Marie Winn

Television is perhaps the greatest medium ever discovered to teach and educate and even to entertain. But the filth, the rot, the violence, and…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

That TV set in your home has the power to destroy your family.

— Anita Bryant

“Television hols up a mirror to the true nature of family life today. For the first time people see themselves reflected and refracted within…

— Ken Hollings

There are many things clogging the television waves. You've got to fight for every bit of television households you can get.

— Kevin Sorbo

While television is a good servant, it's a bad master. It can swallow up huge quantities of our lives without much happiness bang for…

— Gretchen Rubin

I consider the television set as the American fireplace, around which the whole family will gather.

— Red Skelton

When I was growing up we didn't have TV in our house which is perhaps why I work in TV because it seemed such…

— Vick Hope

I've seen the invention of television and performed on television even before my family owned one.

— Carl Reiner