The Waltons (TV Series)

The Gift (1974)

Earl Hamner Jr.: The Narrator

Quotes 

• Narrator : [narration as John 'John Boy' Walton, Jr. reading from his journal]  Living on Waltons Mountain, we were always in touch with the motion of life. Growth and change, loss and gain were natural and expected. We saw the green leaves turn to gold and then fall to the ground, crumpled and grey. But, all of us knew that when spring came again life would renew itself. But, one summer we were faced with an unexpected kind of change that made us all wonder if the future was really a thing to look forward to.

• [Last lines] 

  Narrator : As time went on there were other occasions that necessitated our grieving, and I often think that this early brush with total loss made us better able to face those which were to come after.