Top 17 Quotes & Sayings by Roy Rogers

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American entertainer Roy Rogers.
Last updated on April 14, 2025.
Roy Rogers

Roy Rogers was an American singer, actor, and television host. Following early work under his given name, first as co-founder of the Sons of the Pioneers and then acting, the rebranded Rogers then became one of the most popular Western stars of his era. Known as the "King of the Cowboys", he appeared in over 100 films and numerous radio and television episodes of The Roy Rogers Show. In many of his films and television episodes, he appeared with his wife, Dale Evans; his Golden Palomino, Trigger; and his German Shepherd, Bullet. His show was broadcast on radio for nine years and then on television from 1951 through 1957. His early roles were uncredited parts in films by fellow cowboy singing star Gene Autry and his productions usually featured a sidekick, often Pat Brady, Andy Devine, George "Gabby" Hayes, or Smiley Burnette. In his later years, he lent his name to the franchise chain of Roy Rogers Restaurants.

What's a butterfly garden without butterflies?
I was raised on a little farm about 12 miles out of Portsmouth, Ohio.
I'm an introvert at heart... And show business - even though I've loved it so much - has always been hard for me. — © Roy Rogers
I'm an introvert at heart... And show business - even though I've loved it so much - has always been hard for me.
I did pretty good for a guy who never finished high school and used to yodel at square dances.
The station put us on staff at $35 a week... and I mean every week.
You couldn't beg, borrow, or steal a job in 1931, 1932... it was really tough.
Until we meet again, may the good Lord take a liking to you.
We were so far back in the woods, they almost had to pipe in sunlight.
Today they're making pictures that I wouldn't want Trigger to see.
People are always asking me why they don't make Westerns like they used to.
The world changed. Hollywood changed. I think we've lost something, and we don't know how to get it back.
Christmas is telling time-wondering time. Wonder enough about it, and you'll know, and you'll tell about it.
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.
When you're young and fall off a horse, you may break something. When you're my age and you fall off, you splatter.
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.
When my time comes, just skin me and put me up there on Trigger, just as though nothing had ever changed. — © Roy Rogers
When my time comes, just skin me and put me up there on Trigger, just as though nothing had ever changed.
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