Ed McMahon Quotes

All Americans need a sense of place. That's what makes our physical surroundings worth caring about.

Tourism is the sum total of the travel experience. It is not just what happens at the destination. It involves everything that a person sees and does from the time he or she leaves home until the vacation is over. Getting there can be half the fun, but frequently it is not. There are many great destinations in America, but, unfortunately, there are very few great journeys left, which is why it is in the interest of the tourism industry to encourage the development of greenways, heritage corridor, bike paths, hiking trails, and other forms of alternative transportation.

There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great there is always tomorrow night. That was his attitude.

It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don't have a downtown, you really don't have anything. It's hard to build a community around parking lots and subdivisions.

The image of a community is fundamentally important to its economic well-being. If all places look alike, there's no reason to go anywhere.

I have learned two important lessons from my association with the Marine Corps: always be on time and always be ready to do what is required when you get there.

Like Venice, Italy, New Orleans is a cultural treasure. And everyone who lived in the city should be allowed to come back. But that doesn't mean that they all should live in exactly the same spot that they lived before.

God invented whiskey to keep the Irish from ruling the world.

Agriculture is the new golf

The best places to live, work, and visit are those places that are willing to uphold their standards in the face of pressure to allow lowest common denominator development... Successful communities understand that when they say no to development that is contrary to the long-term health of their community, they will almost always get better development in its place.

Johnny once described our relationship by saying we were as close as two people could be without being married.

You can grow without destroying the things that you love.

There was a time... when people didn't go out of their house on Tuesday night at eight o'clock because Milton Berle was on.

If you have a boat and a happy marriage, you don't need another thing.