Andy Griffith Quotes

Each decade, I've lived in that decade, so I could easily shed the '20s, the '30s, the '40s.

When people say this isn't the America they grew up in, they're right. Nobody gets to grow old in the America they grew up in.

I feel like a survivor from an age that people no longer understand. I want to try to explain what the 1930s - the golden age of Hollywood - was truly like. People forget that America was such a different place then, not yet the dominant force in the world.

Times change. Context changes. Just because something is old and a 'part of our history' shouldn't mean we are forced to honor it forever.

Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the Present with the Past. Neither in countries without a Present nor in those without a Past is it to be encountered. Proust in Venice, Matisse's birdcages overlooking the flower market at Nice, Gide on the seventeenth-century quais of Toulon, Lorca in Granada, Picasso by Saint-Germain-des-Prés: there lies civilization and for me it can exist only under those liberal regimes in which the Present is alive and therefore capable of assimilating the Past.

I felt quite frankly having been raised during the depression and looking back at the roaring twenties, the jazz age, which was a very magic timer in my mind because it was something that I had missed.

The Bush administration made us nostalgic for ... well, any other time in history.

I have to choose my words carefully because I don't want to sound like one of those who goes on about how things were better in my day.

I'm constantly being inspired by the old days and taking things from the past and allowing them to lift me up where I am now.

In Europe, there is so much tradition, and everyone has established ideas as to what art should be and what it has always been.

Things aren't much wilder now, I don't think, than they were back then. Of course I just read about all the goings-on now. Ha.

A little part of my life is built around ancient art.

I am fascinated with times past.

Sitting by the chimney corner as we grow old, the commonest things around us take on live meanings and hint at the difference between these driving times and the calm, slow moving days when we were young.

I love history... everything is inspired by history, so that's why I love vintage and antiques.

For some reason, on that sparkling afternoon last week, I actually saw the coal that was passing by and it set me to thinking how important coal was to our everyday lives when I was a little boy.

While the association and its founders and its founders most sincerely appreciate the splendid elements and achievements of the old-time Indian culture and the methods by which early conditions were met, it realizes most keenly the inefficacy of these methods in meeting the conditions of modern times.

Victorian values…were the values when our country became great.

You can’t just wave a magic wand and make our history go away..

The historical method is often deemed conservative, because it traces the gradual and stately growth of our venerable institutions; but it may exercise a precisely opposite influence by showing the gross injustice which was blindly perpetrated during this growth.

The world changes fast, and a lot of the old country folks have a hard time keeping up with it, and it makes them sad.

Museums are interesting. This place where we're almost buying admission to take a break from our lives.

Throughout history, we have only moved forward when society has distinguished between traditional values and valueless traditions.

Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, there's no fitting into it now.

I love things that have one foot in history - I was going to be a history professor before I sold out and went into TV.