Robert Fulghum Quotes

We could learn a lot from crayons; some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others bright, some have weird names, but they all have learned to live together in the same box.

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

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have a bake-sale to buy a bomber.

The examined life is no picnic.

The winding down of summer puts me in a heavy philosophical mood.

Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know.

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

Why is love easy? I don’t know. And the raccoons don’t say.

Love is a fabric which never fades, no matter how often it is washed in the water of adversity and grief.

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.

Peace is not something you wish for, � it is something you make, something you are, something you do,�and something you give away.

Peace is not something you wish for, it's something you make

Life-and-death. Lifedeath. One event. One short event. Don't forget.

You may never have proof of your importance but you are more important than you think. There are always those who couldn’t do without you. The rub is that you don’t always know who.

Anything can happen. The great banana peel of existence is always on the floor somewhere.

I believe it is in my nature to dance by virtue of the beat of my heart, the pulse of my blood and the music in my mind.

The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. The grass is greenest where it is watered.

It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.

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

My goal now is to dance all the dances as long as I can, and then to sit down contented after the last elegant tango some sweet night and pass on because there wasn't another dance left in me.

Dreams are more powerful than facts.

Speed and efficiency do not always increase the quality of life.

The world does not need tourists who ride by in a bus clucking their tongues. The world as it is needs those who will love it enough to change it, with what they have, where they are.

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge.

To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence, hollering, 'What's it for?'

Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts.

If I don't have time to live my life well the first time, when am I going to find the time to go back and live it over?

Hide-and-seek, grown-up style. Wanting to hide. Needing to be sought. Confused about being found.

to understand our love they'd have to turn the world upside down

Only now have I finally realized that my life has been an unending field trip. And I have tried hard not to be a tourist. But to be an adventurer, a traveler, an explorer, a learner, and a pilgrim.

I think my writing is part of my ministry.

If you want an interesting party sometime, combine cocktails and a fresh box of crayons for everyone.

Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well.

I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.

Even if your watch is full of diamonds the hour is still 60 minutes

The myth of the impossible dream is more powerful than all the facts of history.

Everything we can imagine becomes real.

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.

We are the only creatures that both laugh and weep. I think it's because we are the only creatures that see the difference between the way things are and the way they might be.

Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.

Clean up your own mess.

I talk about very serious human affairs but with a lightness of heart.

It is the chair in honor of all those who, however competently, embrace the impossible. Sit in that chair someday.

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?

I've always made a clear distinction between making a life and making a living.

I once listed all the good things I did over the past year, and then turned them into resolution form and backdated them. That was a good feeling

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?

You feel like an ant contemplating Chicago.

Even the finest workman needs to inspect his work critically.