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Robert Fulghum Quotes | Quotes said by Robert Fulghum

  • Robert Fulghum Quote #1

    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 Quote #2

    Above all, if what you've done is stupid, but it works, it ain't stupid.

  • Robert Fulghum Quote #3

    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 Quote #4

    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 Quote #5

    And sure, I know if you eat this way you'll die. So? If you don't eat this way you're still going to die. Why not die happy?

  • Robert Fulghum Quote #6

    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 Quote #7

    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.

  • Robert Fulghum Quote #8

    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 Quote #9

    Don't Believe Everything You Think!

  • Robert Fulghum Quote #10

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

  • Robert Fulghum Quote #11

    Everything I need to know... I learned in kindergarten.

  • Robert Fulghum Quote #12

    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.

  • Robert Fulghum Quote #13

    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 Quote #14

    I fear the boredom that comes with not learning and not taking chances.

  • Robert Fulghum Quote #15

    I know what I really want for Christmas.
    I want my childhood back.
    Nobody is going to give me that. I might give at least the memory of it to myself if I try. I know it doesn't make sense, but since when is Christmas about sense, anyway? It is about a child, of long ago and far away, and it is about the child of now. In you and me. Waiting behind the door of or hearts for something wonderful to happen. A child who is impractical, unrealistic, simpleminded and terribly vulnerable to joy.

  • Robert Fulghum Quote #16

    I often say that I don't worry about the meaning of life--I can't handle that big stuff. What concerns me is the meaning in life--day by day, hour by hour, while I'm doing whatever it is that I do. What counts is not what I do, but how I think about myself while I'm doing it.

  • Robert Fulghum Quote #17

    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 Quote #18

    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.

  • Robert Fulghum Quote #19

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

  • Robert Fulghum Quote #20

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

  • Robert Fulghum Quote #21

    Instructions For Wayfarers

    They will declare: Every journey has been taken.
    You shall respond: I have not been to see myself.
    They will insist: Everything has been spoken.
    You shall reply: I have not had my say.

    They will tell you: Everything has been done.
    You shall reply: My way is not complete.

    You are warned: Any way is long, any way is hard.
    Fear not. You are the gate - you, the gatekeeper.
    And you shall go through and on . . .

    —Alexandros Evangelou Xenopouloudakis,
    THIRD WISH

  • Robert Fulghum Quote #22

    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?

  • Robert Fulghum Quote #23

    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.

  • Robert Fulghum Quote #24

    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 Quote #25

    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 Quote #26

    Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon. A beauty bomb. And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one. It would explode high in the air - explode softly - and send thousands, millions, of little parachutes into the air. Floating down to earth - boxes of Crayolas. And we wouldn't go cheap, either - not little boxes of eight. Boxes of sixty-four, with the sharpener built right in. With silver and gold and copper, magenta and peach and lime, amber and umber and all the rest. And people would smile and get a little funny look on their faces and cover the world with imagination.

  • Robert Fulghum Quote #27

    One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem. If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire – then you’ve got a problem. Everything else is an inconvenience. Life is inconvenient. Life is lumpy. A lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat and a lump in the breast are not the same kind of lump. One needs to learn the difference.

  • Robert Fulghum Quote #28

    Pardon me, but my father says that it is a lie that Americans have everything. You have no sheep, no goats, no trees, no oil, no vines, no wine, not even chickens. He asks, 'What kind of life is that?' He says, 'No wonder you don't sing or dance or recite poetry very often.

  • Robert Fulghum Quote #29

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

  • Robert Fulghum Quote #30

    The gift was not large as money goes, and my need was not great, but the spirit of the gift is beyond price and leaves me blessed and in debt.

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