Fred Rogers Quotes - Page 7

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• Listening is where love begins: listening to ourselves and then to our neighbors.

  Fred Rogers

  Love Is, Empathy, Understanding

  Fred Rogers (2004). “The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember”, Large Print Press

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• When our children see us expressing our emotions, they can learn that their own feelings are natural and permissible, can be expressed, and can be talked about. That's an important thing for our children to learn.

  Fred Rogers

  Children, Feelings, Important

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• I've often hesitated in beginning a project because I've thought, 'It'll never turn out to be even remotely like the good idea I have as I start.' I could just 'feel' how good it could be. but I decided that, for the present, I would create the best way I know how and accept the ambiguities.

  Fred Rogers

  Ideas, Way, Accepting

  Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.47, Penguin

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• Parents are like shuttles on a loom. They join the threads of the past with threads of the future and leave their own bright patterns as they go.

  Fred Rogers

  Pregnancy, Past, Parent

  Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.106, Penguin

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• I'm proud of you for the times you came in second, or third, or fourth, but what you did was the best you have ever done

  Fred Rogers

  Done, Proud, Thirds

  Fred Rogers (2004). “The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember”, Large Print Press

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• Children long to know that they are lovable. And there are ways that technology can help with that. But ultimately it's their relationships with their parents, their grandparents, their peers, and their teachers that help them to know that for sure. A child can learn the word "hug" and the letters h-u-g through a computer, but a computer can never give the child a hug.

  Fred Rogers

  Teacher, Children, Technology

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• There's a world of difference between insisting on someone's doing something and establishing an atmosphere in which that person can grow into wanting to do it.

  Fred Rogers

  Differences, Atmosphere, World

  Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.75, Penguin

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• Very frankly, I am opposed to people being programmed by others. My whole approach in broadcasting has always been 'You are an important person just the way you are. You can make healthy decisions.' Maybe I'm going on too long, but I just feel that anything that allows a person to be more active in the control of his or her life, in a healthy way, is important.

  Fred Rogers

  Long, People, Decision

  U.S. District Court testimony, www.law.cornell.edu. September 1979.

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• All life events are formative. All contribute to what we become, year by year, as we go on growing. As my friend the poet Kenneth Koch once said, You aren't just the age you are. You are all the ages you ever have been!

  Fred Rogers

  Years, Age, Events

  Fred Rogers (2006). “Wisdom from the World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember”, p.19, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Children who have learned to be comfortably dependent can become not only comfortably independent but also comfortable with having people depend on them. They can lean, stand, and be leaned upon, because they know what a good feeling it can be to feel needed.

  Fred Rogers

  Children, Independent, People

  Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.123, Penguin

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• The very best reason parents are so special . . . is because we are the holders of a priceless gift, a gift we received from countless generations we never knew, a gift that only we now possess and only we can give to our children. That unique gift, of course, is the gift of ourselves. Whatever we can do to give that gift, and to help others receive it, is worth the challenge of all our human endeavor.

  Fred Rogers

  Children, Parenting, Helping Others

  Fred Rogers (2006). “Many Ways to Say I Love You: Wisdom for Parents and Children from Mister Rogers”, Hyperion

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• I believe that at the center of the universe there dwells a loving spirit who longs for all that’s best in all of creation, a spirit who knows the great potential of each planet as well as each person, and little by little will love us into being more than we ever dreamed possible. That loving spirit would rather die than give up on any one of us.

  Fred Rogers

  Giving Up, Believe, Littles

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• If you like to make things out of wood, or sew, or dance, or style people's hair, or dream up stories and act them out, or play the trumpet, or jump rope, or whatever you really love to do, and you love that in front of your children, that's going to be a far more important gift than anything you could ever give them wrapped up in a box with ribbons.

  Fred Rogers

  Dream, Children, Fun

  Fred Rogers (2006). “Many Ways to Say I Love You: Wisdom for Parents and Children from Mister Rogers”, Hyperion

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• Love isn't a state of perfect caring, it is an active noun like struggle.

  Fred Rogers

  Struggle, Caring, Love Is

  Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.21, Penguin

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• What's been important in my understanding of myself and others is the fact that each one of us is so much more than any one thing. A sick child is much more than his or her sickness. A person with a disability is much, much more than a handicap. A pediatrician is more than a medical doctor. You're MUCH more than your job description or your age or your income or your output.

  Fred Rogers

  Jobs, Children, Doctors

  Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.16, Penguin

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• It's not the honors and not the titles and not the power that is of ultimate importance. It's what resides inside.

  Fred Rogers

  Honor, Titles, Importance

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• I've always wanted to have a neighbor just like you. I've always wanted to live in a neighborhood with you.

  Fred Rogers

  Home, Like You, Neighbor

  Song: Won't You Be My Neighbor?

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• I got into television because I hated it so. And I thought there's some way of using this fabulous instrument to nurture those who would watch and listen.

  Fred Rogers

  Television, Hated

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Anything mentionable is manageable.

  Fred Rogers

  Manageable

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• Often out of periods of losing come the greatest strivings toward a new winning streak.

  Fred Rogers

  Winning, Losing, Strive

  Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.123, Penguin

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• We've forgotten what it's like not to be able to reach the light switch. We've forgotten a lot of the monsters that seemed to livein our room at night. Nevertheless, those memories are still there, somewhere inside us, and can sometimes be brought to the surface by events, sights, sounds, or smells. Children, though, can never have grown-up feelings until they've been allowed to do the growing.

  Fred Rogers

  Children, Memories, Night

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• To say that you are being carried is a declaration of enormous faith and hope.

  Fred Rogers

  Hope And Faith, Enormous, Declaration

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• How sad it is that we give up on people who are just like us.

  Fred Rogers

  Life, Sad, Giving Up

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One way to think about play, is as the process of finding new combinations for known things--combinations that may yield new formsof expression, new inventions, new discoveries, and new solutions....It's exactly what children's play seems to be about and explains why so many people have come to think that children's play is so important a part of childhood--and beyond.

  Fred Rogers

  Children, Thinking, Yield

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• The only thing evil can’t stand is forgiveness.

  Fred Rogers

  Evil

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