Willard Scott
Willard Scott
Willard Herman Scott, Jr.is an American weather presenter, author, television personality and occasional actor, best known for his TV work on the Today show and as the creator and original portrayer of Ronald McDonald...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Show Host
Date of Birth7 March 1934
CityAlexandria, VA
CountryUnited States of America
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My grandmother's house - she ran it just like her grandmother and her great-grandmother. They didn't have electricity. They had wood stoves that never got cold.
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Now that I'm a grandfather myself, I realize that the best thing about having grandkids is that you get the kid for the best part of the ride - kind of like owning a car for only the first 10,000 miles. You can have your grandchildren for a couple of days and then turn them back over to the parents.
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I still start to get panicky each morning before I go on television. I'll say, 'I'm in awful shape, something is wrong,' and if I start to look like I'm going off the deep end, Jimmy Straka, the stage manager, will say, 'You're all right. Calm down.' Then Bryant Gumbel will grab me by the leg or something.
birthday happy opportunity wish
I just want to take this opportunity to wish a Happy Birthday to all of you out there celebrating your 100th birthday today.
yesterday care soup
It was a big story and yesterday's soup. Who cares?
mother people cooking
My grandmother was a typical farm-family mother. She would regularly prepare dinner for thirty people, and that meant something was always cooking in the kitchen. All of my grandmother's recipes went back to her grandmother.
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The only way to predict if there's a cloud on your horizon due to glaucoma is to get tested. No matter what the diagnosis, the forecast is for clear vision in the years ahead.
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When I was just starting out in the business, I used to love to watch Lorne Greene doing the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. I said right then, 'That's what I want to do someday,' and it's been one dream that has come true.
kids thinking grandparent
Why do we love our grandparents so much? Part of the reason I think has to do with the tremendous natural affection and affinity that kids have for older people, whether they are their actual grandparents or not.
hands microphones folks
Take a microphone out of my hands, and I'm just plain folks.
changed phobia
Having a phobia has changed me.
people ego no-friends
When you hit the big time, big money, big egos, people don't talk. You have no friends.
tragedy today unnecessary
It's simply a tragedy that anyone today goes blind from glaucoma, when it's so unnecessary.
weather complaining seems
Everyone complains about the weather, but nobody ever seems to do anything about it.