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Top 25 Jean Shepherd Quotes (2025 Update)

Jean Shepherd Quote: “In God we trust; all others pay cash.”

1. “In God we trust; all others pay cash.”

— Jean Shepherd

Jean Shepherd Quote: “Randy lay there like a slug. It was his only defense.”

2. “Randy lay there like a slug. It was his only defense.”

— Jean Shepherd

Jean Shepherd Quote: “Some men are Baptists, others Catholics. My father was an Oldsmobile man.”

3. “Some men are Baptists, others Catholics. My father was an Oldsmobile man.”

— Jean Shepherd

Jean Shepherd Quote: “The joy of giving can uplift the saddened heart.”

4. “The joy of giving can uplift the saddened heart.”

— Jean Shepherd

Jean Shepherd Quote: “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.”

5. “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.”

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Jean Shepherd Quote: “I had woven a tapestry of obscenity that as far as I know is still hanging in space over Lake Michigan.”

6. “I had woven a tapestry of obscenity that as far as I know is still hanging in space over Lake Michigan.”

— Jean Shepherd

Jean Shepherd Quote: “The truth will always have a market.”

7. “The truth will always have a market.”

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Jean Shepherd Quote: “The reality of what we really are is often times found in the small snips, way down at the bottom of things.”

8. “The reality of what we really are is often times found in the small snips, way down at the bottom of things.”

— Jean Shepherd

Jean Shepherd Quote: “The show was over and you had a sinister feeling that out there in the darkness all over the country there were millions of kids – decoding.”

9. “The show was over and you had a sinister feeling that out there in the darkness all over the country there were millions of kids – decoding.”

— Jean Shepherd

Jean Shepherd Quote: “Manhattan cabs are born old.”

10. “Manhattan cabs are born old.”

— Jean Shepherd

Jean Shepherd Quote: “Our family always had its Christmas on Christmas Eve. Other less fortunate people, I had heard, opened their presents in the chill clammy light of dawn. Far more civilized, our Santa Claus recognized that barbaric practice for what it was.”

11. “Our family always had its Christmas on Christmas Eve. Other less fortunate people, I had heard, opened their presents in the chill clammy light of dawn. Far more civilized, our Santa Claus recognized that barbaric practice for what it was.”

— Jean Shepherd

Jean Shepherd Quote: “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.”

12. “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.”

— Jean Shepherd

Jean Shepherd Quote: “A man today never feels so alive as when he is hurtling from one point to another on the azimuth.”

13. “A man today never feels so alive as when he is hurtling from one point to another on the azimuth.”

— Jean Shepherd

Jean Shepherd Quote: “Everything comes to he who waits. I guess. At last, after at least 200 years of constant vigil, there was delivered to me a big, fat, lumpy letter. There are few things more thrilling in Life than lumpy letters. That rattle. Even to this day I feel a wild surge of exultation when I run my hands over an envelope that is thick, fat, and pregnant with mystery.”

14. “Everything comes to he who waits. I guess. At last, after at least 200 years of constant vigil, there was delivered to me a big, fat, lumpy letter. There are few things more thrilling in Life than lumpy letters. That rattle. Even to this day I feel a wild surge of exultation when I run my hands over an envelope that is thick, fat, and pregnant with mystery.”

— Jean Shepherd

Jean Shepherd Quote: “My mind, as is so often the case these days, was totally blank.”

15. “My mind, as is so often the case these days, was totally blank.”

— Jean Shepherd

Jean Shepherd Quote: “The hand of fate had dipped into the ragbag of humanity.”

16. “The hand of fate had dipped into the ragbag of humanity.”

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Jean Shepherd Quote: “There are fewer things more thrilling in life than lumpy letters. That rattle.”

17. “There are fewer things more thrilling in life than lumpy letters. That rattle.”

— Jean Shepherd

Jean Shepherd Quote: “I had been an eyewitness to a truly historic moment in American pop culture.”

18. “I had been an eyewitness to a truly historic moment in American pop culture.”

— Jean Shepherd

Jean Shepherd Quote: “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.”

19. “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.”

— Jean Shepherd

Jean Shepherd Quote: “I have never understood why the pig is an animal whose name is used in derision. He is intelligent and kindly, often benevolent, in fact; in short, totally with it.”

20. “I have never understood why the pig is an animal whose name is used in derision. He is intelligent and kindly, often benevolent, in fact; in short, totally with it.”

— Jean Shepherd

Jean Shepherd Quote: “Dynamite was the milk of life to the average hillbilly of the day. He celebrated with it, feuded with it, and fished with it. The Sporting instinct runs strong in the hills. When the fishing season would open, the river would literally be aboil with TNT.”

21. “Dynamite was the milk of life to the average hillbilly of the day. He celebrated with it, feuded with it, and fished with it. The Sporting instinct runs strong in the hills. When the fishing season would open, the river would literally be aboil with TNT.”

— Jean Shepherd

Jean Shepherd Quote: “Kissel worked in Idleness the way other artists worked in clay or marble.”

22. “Kissel worked in Idleness the way other artists worked in clay or marble.”

— Jean Shepherd

Jean Shepherd Quote: “What’s all that stuff about torches? I didn’t get no torch.” “They must have given them to the front of the class,” I answered. Little did I realize how right I was.”

23. “What’s all that stuff about torches? I didn’t get no torch.” “They must have given them to the front of the class,” I answered. Little did I realize how right I was.”

— Jean Shepherd

Jean Shepherd Quote: “But as the old truism goes, every man has his chance, and when yours comes you had better grab it.”

24. “But as the old truism goes, every man has his chance, and when yours comes you had better grab it.”

— Jean Shepherd

Jean Shepherd Quote: “I was the victim of another American myth, namely that things can actually change for the better, that if you try hard enough you can transform the lead of your crummy self into some golden ideal.”

25. “I was the victim of another American myth, namely that things can actually change for the better, that if you try hard enough you can transform the lead of your crummy self into some golden ideal.”

— Jean Shepherd

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