Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits.

- Studs Terkel

Ordinary people are capable of doing extraordinary things, and that's what it's all about. They must count.

- Studs Terkel

More and more we are into communications; and less and less into communication.

- Studs Terkel

Heroes are not giant statues framed against a red sky. They are people who say: This is my community, and it is my responsibility to make it better. …

- Studs Terkel

I want people to talk to one another no matter what their difference of opinion might be.

- Studs Terkel

If there is knowledge, it lies in the fusion of the book and the street.

- Studs Terkel

Think of what's stored in an 80- or a 90-year-old mind. Just marvel at it. You've got to get out this information, this knowledge, because you've got…

- Studs Terkel

My epitaph? My epitaph will be, 'Curiosity did not kill this cat'.

- Studs Terkel

We are living in the United States of Alzheimer's. A whole country has lost its memory. When it can't remember yesterday, a country forgets what it o…

- Studs Terkel