All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten Quotes

“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

“Machines and relatives get most of the yelling. But never trees. As for people, well, the Solomon islanders may have a point. Yelling at living thing does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts.”
― Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

“And good neighbors make a huge difference in the quality of life. I agree.”
― Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

“You will continue to read stories of crookedness and corruption - of policemen who lie and steal, doctors who reap where they do not sew, politicians on the take. Don't be misled. They are news because they are the exceptions.”
― Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

“Liberation, I guess, is everybody getting what they think they want, without knowing the whole truth. Or in other words, liberation finally amounts to being free from things we don't like in order to be enslaved by things we approve of. Here's to the eternal tandem.”
― Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

“Now Everybody has some secret goals in life...Sometimes you can get what you want and what you need at the sames time.”
― Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge.”
― Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

“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

“And it is still true, no matter how old you are -- when you go out into the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.”
― Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

“Don't Believe Everything You Think!”
― Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

“Does the giraffe know what he's for? Or care? Or even think about his place in things? 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

“As one old gentleman put it, " Son, I don't care if you're stark nekkid and wear a bone in your nose. If you kin fiddle, you're all right with me. It's the music we make that counts.”
― Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

“Storyteller's Creed:
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

“There is nothing in your budget for joy. No books, no flowers, no music, not even a cold beer. And there is nothing in your budget to give away to someone else. We don’t help people who don’t have better values than you do.”
― Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

“The Sikh gave him the money. When Menon asked for his address so that he could repay the man, the Sikh said that Menon owed the debt to any stranger who came to him in need, as long as he lived. The help came from a stranger and was to be repaid to a stranger.”
― Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

“Don't sell yourself short. You may never have proof of your importance, but you are more important than you think.”
― Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

“Think of what a better world it would be if we all - the whole
world had cookies and milk about 3 o'clock every afternoon and then
lay down with our blankets for a nap.”
― Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

“And I’m not confused about the lack of, or the need for, imagination in low or high places. We could do better we must do better. There are far worse things to drop on people than crayolas.”
― Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

“Always trust your fellow man. And always cut the cards. Always trust God. And always build your house on high ground. Always love thy neighbor. And always pick a good neighborhood to live in.”
― Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

“The Indian danced on alone. The crowd clapped up the beat. The Indian danced with a chair. The crowd went crazy. The band faded. The crowd cheered. The Indian held up his hands for silence as if to make a speech. Looking at the band and then the crowd, the Indian said, "Well, what're you waiting for? Let's DANCE.”
― Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

“Every person passing through this life will unknowingly leave something and take something away.”
― Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

“It's just this: that there are places we all come from-deep-rooty-common places- that makes us who we are. And we disdain them or treat them lightly at our peril. We turn our backs on them at the risk of self-contempt. There is a sense in which we need to go home again-and can go home again. Not to recover home, no. But to sanctify memory.”
― Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

“About winning and losing: It isn't important, what really counts is how you play the game. About playing the game: PLAY TO WIN!”
― Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

“Life will examine us continually to see if we have understood and have practiced what we were taught that first year of school.”
― Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

“Until you have experienced raccoons mating underneath your bedroom at three in the morning, you have missed one of life's sensational moments.”
― Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

“Th communique repeated the information. “He went to the body of his wife and wouldn’t leave it, although she was dead.”
How strange. why didn’t he run and save his own hide? What made him go back? is it possible that he loved her? Is it possible that he wanted to hold her in his arms one last time? Is it possible that he needed to cry and grieve? Is it possible that he felt the stupidity of war? Is it possible that he felt the injustice of fate? Is it possible that he thought of children, born or unborn? Is it possible that he didn’t care what become of him now?
It’s possible. We don’t know. Or at least we don’t know for certain. But we can guess. His actions answer.
And so h sits alone in a prison. Not a “Russian” or a “Communist” or “solider” or “enemy” or any of these categories. Just-a-man who cared for just-a-woman for just-a-time more than anything else.
Here’s to you, Nicolai Pestretsov, wherever you may go and be, for giving powerful meaning to the promises that are the same everywhere; for dignifying that covenant that is the same in any language— “for better or for worse, in good times and bad, in sickness and in health, to love and honor and cherish unto death, so help me God.” You kept the faith; kept it bright— kept it shining. Bless you!”
― Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

“Peace is not something you wish for; it's something you make, something you do, something you are, and something you give away!”
― Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

“I use Cheer. I like the idea of a happy wash.”
― Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

“Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.”
― Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

“You know, without realizing it we fill important places in each other's lives.”
― Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten