1.
It's important to me that on 'Family Feud' I could kiss all the people. It sounds crazy but when I first came here Petula Clark was on a show with Nat King Cole and he kissed her on the cheek and eighty-one stations in the South canceled him. I kissed black women daily and nightly on 'Family Feud' and the world didn't come to an end, did it?
Richard Dawson
2.
The first time I ever saw people of any color was when D-Day left from my hometown in England, to go and free Europe from the war. And there was every color you could imagine, and I'd not seen that in England.
Richard Dawson
3.
God bless all the little children in the world.
Richard Dawson
4.
Be nice to each other. You can make a whole day a different day for everybody.
Richard Dawson
5.
And I asked my mother about it; I said, 'Is there something wrong?' She said, 'God... God makes people. You understand that, don't you?' And I said, 'Yeah!' She said, 'Who makes a rainbow?" I said, 'God.' She said, 'I never presumed to tell anyone who could make a rainbow what color to make children.'
Richard Dawson
6.
It's wonderful to win, but don't get cocky about it!
Richard Dawson
7.
If I never do another thing, I've met the good sweet people of the world.
Richard Dawson
8.
I never presumed to tell anyone who could make a rainbow what color to make children.
Richard Dawson
9.
There were people I know that got upset that I kiss people. I kiss them for luck and love, that's all. That's what my mother did to me.
Richard Dawson
10.
I've had the most incredible luck in my career.
Richard Dawson
11.
Hogan's Heroes' lasted longer than the war.
Richard Dawson
12.
I abhor grades - if a child does his best, that's all that should be asked.
Richard Dawson
13.
I never dreamed I would have a job in which so many people could touch me and I could touch them.
Richard Dawson
14.
About 30 million people see me every week - I'm a happy man.
Richard Dawson
15.
Sometimes, when you do the music for a play, there are very clear boundaries as to what needs to be achieved. You're very much a little cog in a much bigger machine.
Richard Dawson
16.
I've never stopped working on songs and practising singing and guitar.
Richard Dawson
17.
You wouldn't want to move if you sat next to me on the bus. Or maybe you would.
Richard Dawson