The Waltons Quotes

John Boy.: Good night

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Grover: Six years in grade school, five years in high school-everything I ever ran for, I was always running against the same Johnny Walton... The greatest day of my life was when I beat John Walton out for senior class president. I don't think he ever lost any sleep over it. Now I'm an ambitious man - some would say successful; probably it's all John's fault. I was always running; he was always going past me at a walk. And here it is, 25 years later-here I am, and there's John. Then look at me... and some of you... still running, still wearing ourselves to a frazzle for all sorts of things that John Walton has accumulated while he was out walking - a happy home, a fine wife and children. We're sitting here well fed at John's table, and I'm still boy enough to be graveled at the sight of him. 'John - the boy most likely to succeed.' Well, he's the boy who did.

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James Robert 'Jim Bob' Walton: [after Todd admits to having forgotten what it's like to be a kid] It's a mess! Everything you touch turns over. Everybody hollers at ya. Y'don't even get a chance to holler back. Everybody blames ya for everything even when you didn't do it.
Todd Cooper: I think it's beginning to come back to me now.
James Robert 'Jim Bob' Walton: It's awful, isn't it?
Todd Cooper: Terrible.

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Narrator: [narration as John 'John Boy' Walton, Jr. reading from his journal] When I look back on Walton's Mountain, I remember that our parents, by word and by example, took some pains to teach us the practical lessons of life and its virtues. But, though I had been well taught, there came a time when I doubted my own honesty and questioned its true value.

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Narrator: [narration as John 'John Boy' Walton, Jr. reading from his journal] While the war in Europe continued to spread, a deceptive calm lay over Waltons Mountain. In this 'quiet before the storm' our mother turned to painting, losing herself in it as if, somehow, she could preserve those tranquil days for ever.

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Narrator: [narration as John 'John Boy' Walton, Jr. reading from his journal] When I was growing up on Waltons Mountain, I had a tendency to think of myself and my immediate family as the only Waltons, but that wasn't true, we were part of a great clan. There were other mountains and many other Waltons who lived farther up in the Blue Ridge. They were part of the family whose way had scarcely been touched by the passing of time. We were a family born to share a kinship with the seasons, always gratefully accepting that which the land gave, but living in the knowledge that weather and misfortune could take it away. One summer we were to learn that man also could take away what the land had given.

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Narrator: [narration as John 'John Boy' Walton, Jr. reading from his journal] The absence of a loved one can make the days seem endless and the nights all the darker, especially in spring when the weather is gentle and moonlight stirs the heartstrings. During my mother's illness our family sorely missed her presence, and without her my father was a lonely, vulnerable man.

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