The Waltons (TV Series)

The Calf (1972)

Earl Hamner Jr.: The Narrator

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Narrator : [narration as John 'John Boy' Walton, Jr. reading from his journal]  Waltons Mountain was an everlasting presence in our lives. Whenever I could, when I was growing up there during the Depression years, I would climb its slopes. Up there I could get lost in dreams, dreams of becoming a writer, of becoming a man. I knew no writers, so I had no writer to model myself after; but as a boy aspiring to manhood, I had only to follow the footsteps of a remarkable father.