Fred Rogers Quotes
Most popular Fred Rogers Quotes
Play is the real work of childhood.
Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.
How we deal with the big disappointments in life depends a great deal on how the people who loved us helped us deal with smaller disappointments when we were little.
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, providing continuity to succeeding ages.
We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It's easy to say "It's not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem." Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes.
I believe that appreciation is a holy thing, that when we look for what's best in the person we happen to be with at the moment, we're doing what God does all the time; so, in appreciating our neighbor, we're participating in something truly sacred.
I wonder what memories of yours will persist as you go on in life. My hunch is that the most important will have to do with feelings of loving and being loved—whosoever's been close to you. As you continue to grow, you'll find many ways of expressing your love and you'll discover more and more ways in which others express their love for you.
