quotes by Robert Fulghum

"I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death."
— Robert Fulghum (All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten)

"The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. No, not at all. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be."
— Robert Fulghum

"Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts..."
— Robert Fulghum

"Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you."
— Robert Fulghum

"I do not want to know what you will hope for. I want to know what you will work for. I do not want your sympathy for the needs of humanity. I want your muscle. As the wagon driver said when they came to a long, hard hill: ‘Them that’s going on with us, get out and push. Them that ain’t, get out of the way’. "
— Robert Fulghum

"Never, ever regret or apologize for believing that when one man or one woman decides to risk addressing the world with truth, the world may stop what it is doing and hear. There is too much evidence to the contrary."
— Robert Fulghum (Maybe, Maybe Not)

"If you tell people you talk to God, they'll think you're religious, but if you say God talks to you, it's ten to one they'll think you're crazy."
— Robert Fulghum (Maybe, Maybe Not)

"The heart will turn to a prune if love is always by the numbers. How will you know if someone really loves you if they only meet your expectations and not your needs?"
— Robert Fulghum (Maybe, Maybe Not)

"One of the very few reasons I had any respect for my mother when I was thirteen was because she would reach into the sink with her bare hands - bare hands - and pick up that lethal gunk and drop it into the garbage. To top that, I saw her reach into the wet garbage bag and fish around in there looking for a lost teaspoon. Bare hands - a kind of mad courage.
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— Robert Fulghum

"It is the chair in honor of all those who, however competently, embrace the impossible. Sit in that chair someday."
— Robert Fulghum (Maybe, Maybe Not)

"Wherever and however any one of us may be conceived, it is the same. We come into being in the arms of God."
— Robert Fulghum (Maybe, Maybe Not)

"Is it always to be a winners-losers world, or can we keep everyone in the game? Do we still have what it takes to find a better way?"
— Robert Fulghum (Maybe, Maybe Not)

"Above all, if what you've done is stupid, but it works, it ain't stupid."
— Robert Fulghum (Maybe, Maybe Not)

""If only the scientific experts could come up with something to get [filth] out of our minds. One cup of fixit frizzle that will lift the dirt from our lives, soften our hardness, protect our inner parts, improve our processing, reduce our yellowing and wrinkling, improve our natural color, and make us sweet and good.""
— Robert Fulghum

"A giraffe has a black tongue twenty-seven inches long and no vocal cords. A giraffe has nothing to say. He just goes on giraffing."
— Robert Fulghum (All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things)

"Hide-and-seek, grown-up style. Wanting to hide. Needing to be sought. Confused about being found."
— Robert Fulghum (All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things)

"If only the scientific experts could come up with something to get it out of our minds. One cup of fixit fizzle that will lift the dirt from our lives, soften our hardness, protect our inner parts, improve our processing, reduce our yellowing and wrinkling, improve our natural color, and make us sweet and good."
— Robert Fulghum (All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things)

"We even make ourselves up, fusing what we are with what we wish into what we must become. I'm not sure why it must be so, but it is."
— Robert Fulghum (All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things)

"Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw some and paint some and sing and dance and play and work everyday some."
— Robert Fulghum

"Once you know where the roller coaster is going, are you in for the ride?"
— Robert Fulghum