American Quote by Tom Junod

Will Rogers was an American hero - someone you could get your teeth into and love.

— Willard Scott

I never met a man I didn't like until I met Will Rogers.

— Mort Sahl

His name was Fred Rogers. He came home to Latrobe, Pennsylvania, once upon a time, and his parents, because they were wealthy, had bought…

— Tom Junod

My childhood hero was Roy Rogers.

— Keith Allen

Fred Rogers was a children's-TV host, but he was not Captain Kangaroo or Officer Joe Bolton. He was an ordained Presbyterian minister who was…

— Tom Junod

I grew up on 'Mister Rogers.' I loved watching him.

— Tabitha Brown

I grew up as a Roy Rogers fan, of course.

— Phil Everly

I met Fredo Santana three days before he passed. We were in the studio in Los Angeles, actually, listening to 'Get Rich Or Die…

— Yung Lean

Andy [Griffith] and I spoke on the phone not too long before he died. I told him I loved him and he told me…

— Betty Lynn

I grew up loving movie musicals and Idolizing Fred Astalre. I never worked with Fred but I met him once at a pool hall…

— Ken Berry

In those days I was new to covers; merely felt pleased that a story of mine had been honored. I later met Rogers who…

— A. E. van Vogt

I got to meet Andy [Hertzfeld], and he sort of opened his life to me. He showed me Palo Alto and we had food…

— Michael Stuhlbarg