Kindergarten Quotes

• The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Life, Nature, Men

  Orison Swett Marden (1897). “Rising in the World: Or, Architects of Fate; a Book Designed to Inspire Youth to Character Building, Self-culture and Noble Achievement”

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• The kindergarten children are confident in spirit, infinite in resources, and eager to learn. Everything is still possible.

  Robert Fulghum

  Children, Spirit, Infinite

  Robert Fulghum (2010). “Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door”, p.228, Ivy Books

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• All I really need to know... I learned in kindergarten.

  Robert Fulghum

  Teaching, Learning, Needs

  Robert Fulghum (2010). “Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door”, Ivy Books

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• Imagination is more important than knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Positive, Leadership

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press

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• All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be, I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there in the sand pile at Sunday School.

  Robert Fulghum

  School, Sunday, Mountain

  Robert Fulghum (1989). “It was on Fire when I Lay Down on it”

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• In kindergarten, you can learn how to be a citizen of the world.

  Jill Lepore

  Citizens, World

  "Flight of Fancy" by Jill Lepore, www.newyorker.com. March 11, 2011.

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• Only people who die very young learn all they really need to know in kindergarten.

  Wendy Kaminer

  Education, Teaching, Learning

  I'm Dysfunctional, You're Dysfunctional introduction (1992).

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• From kindergarten to graduation, I went to public schools, and I know that they are a key to being sure that every child has a chance to succeed and to rise in the world.

  Dick Cheney

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

  2004 Republican National Convention Address, delivered 1 September 2004, Madison Square Garden, New York

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• All I ever needed to know I learned in kindergarten. Share everything ... Don't hit people ... Clean up your own mess.

  Robert Fulghum

  Education, People, Clean

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• When it comes to educating all of us about the most basic things in life, it seems to me we need more kindergartens and fewer graduate schools.

  Andy Rooney

  Education, School, Things In Life

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• I was coming home from kindergarten - well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It's good for a kid to know how to make gloves.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Funny, Home, Humor

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• Polls that have been taken by kindergarten, first- and second-grade teachers indicate that 30 percent of the kids have been deprived in some way so that they are physically unable to keep up with the class.

  C. Everett Koop

  Teacher, Taken, Kids

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• Experts tell us that 90% of all brain development occurs by the age of five. If we don't begin thinking about education in the early years, our children are at risk of falling behind by the time they start Kindergarten.

  Bob Ehrlich

  Children, Fall, Thinking

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• If you really want to know about the future, don't ask a technologist, a scientist, a physicist. No! Don't ask somebody who's writing code. No, if you want to know what society's going to be like in 20 years, ask a kindergarten teacher.

  Clifford Stoll

  Teacher, Writing, Years

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• The first stop on this crazy train is Kindergarten Junction, and nobody gets off until it pulls into Harvard Station.

  Maria Semple

  Crazy, Firsts, Junction

  Maria Semple (2012). “Where'd You Go, Bernadette”, p.11, Hachette UK

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• We'd all do well to start over again, preferably with kindergarten.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Starting Over, Wells

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.35, Dial Press

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• I've had the same friends since I was in kindergarten.

  J. J. Abrams

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• People who are not leaders automatically gravitate toward lines--limitations set by others. Many people are taught this in kindergarten when they are instructed to stay within the lines while coloring. But leaders are more creative than that. They look for options and opportunities. They try to take things in a new direction, or beyond the limit. Progress and innovation are made by people who think without lines.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Opportunity, Thinking

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• The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes, - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Even the bee and ant have brought their little lessons of industry and economy.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Wisdom, Nature, Travel

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• Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten. Then when you hit puberty they take the crayons away and replace them with dry, uninspiring books on algebra, history, etc. Being suddenly hit years later with the 'creative bug' is just a wee voice telling you, 'I'd like my crayons back, please.

  Hugh Magnus MacLeod of MacLeod

  Art, Book, Creativity

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• What exactly did we learn in kindergarten? Nothing we wouldn't have learned if we;d stayed home. Okay, we learned that sometimes, by the time you get to the bathroom, it's too late.

  Jessica Zafra

  Home, Too Late, Bathroom

  Jessica Zafra (1997). “Chicken pox for the soul”

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• Head Start is designed to ensure that all children - regardless of their family's income, race, or ethnic background - are able to enter kindergarten ready to learn.

  Lucille Roybal-Allard

  Children, Race, Surfing

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• I would advise my young colleagues, the composers of symphonies, to drop in sometimes at the kindergarten, too. It is there that it is decided whether there will be anybody to understand their works in twenty years time.

  Zoltan Kodaly

  Years, Symphony, Twenties

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• From kindergarten to college, certain teachers engaged my curiosity and motivated me to learn. While I was not the best student, their efforts left a lasting impact.

  George Lucas

  Teacher, College, Impact

  "Celebrating Unsung Heroes in Education" by George Lucas, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 7, 2013.

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• Somebody said once or wrote, once: 'We're all of us children in a vast kindergarten trying to spell God's name with the wrong alphabet blocks!

  Tennessee Williams

  Children, Block, Names

  Tennessee Williams (1991). “The Theatre of Tennessee Williams”, p.375, New Directions Publishing

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