5 Quotes & Sayings By Earle Gray

Earle Gray was born in Covington, Tennessee. He graduated from the University of Tennessee with a bachelor’s degree in psychology in 1948. Earle served for six years as a combat correspondent during the Korean War with the United States Air Force. He retired from the Air Force as a Lt Read more

Colonel after 20 years of service. After his retirement, Earle began his advertising career at The Clarion-Ledger newspaper in Jackson, Mississippi, where he worked for 30 years. Earle was awarded The Golden Pear Award by the Mississippi Press Association for his contributions to journalism.

He is also a recipient of the Outstanding Daily Newspaperman Award from the American Society of Newspaper Editors. Earle recognized by being inducted into the Mississippi Journalism Hall of Fame which honors outstanding journalists recognized for their service to the state or profession. He is also a member of Sigma Delta Chi, Sigma Xi, and Phi Kappa Phi Honor Societies.

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Most of the seven billion people in this world suffer from malnutrition. Half do not have enough to eat and the rest of us eat too much. Earle Gray
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21Most food goes to waste in affluent societies. When we throw leftovers into the garbage, it goes to waste. When we eat more food than we need, it goes to waist. Earle Gray
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Never a horse that can’t be rode and never a rider that can’t be throwed. (I’ll pass this off as my own, but I really stole it from my father, a cowboy and rodeo rider in his younger years.) Earle Gray
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For more than a century-and-a-half, Europeans had been killing North American Indians with firewater… Now, in the first decades of the nineteenth century, Canada’s pioneer settlers were killing themselves with their own medicine. About Canada. Toronto: Civil Sector Press, November, 2012. Alcohol, North American Indians, Settlers, Canada Earle Gray