Top 17 Quotes & Sayings by Jean Shepherd

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American writer Jean Shepherd.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Jean Shepherd

Jean Parker Shepherd Jr., often referred to by the nickname Shep, was an American storyteller, humorist, radio and TV personality, writer, and actor. With a career that spanned decades, Shepherd is known for the film A Christmas Story (1983), which he narrated and co-scripted, based on his own semiautobiographical stories.

That reminds me of something that happened to me when I was a kid.
I had been an eyewitness to a truly historic moment in American pop culture.
The hand of fate had dipped into the ragbag of humanity. — © Jean Shepherd
The hand of fate had dipped into the ragbag of humanity.
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.
The truth will always have a market.
A man today never feels so alive as when he is hurtling from one point to another on the azimuth.
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.
I had woven a tapestry of obscenity that as far as I know is still hanging in space over Lake Michigan.
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.
There are fewer things more thrilling in life than lumpy letters. That rattle.
Randy lay there like a slug. It was his only defense.
The reality of what we really are is often times found in the small snips, way down at the bottom of things.
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.
Manhattan cabs are born old.
In God we trust; all others pay cash.
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.
Some men are Baptists, others Catholics; my father was an Oldsmobile man. — © Jean Shepherd
Some men are Baptists, others Catholics; my father was an Oldsmobile man.
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