Robert Fulghum Quotes

Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon. A beauty bomb....

Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones...

On a very local scale, a refrigerator is the center of the universe. On the inside is food essential...

The world does not need tourists who ride by in a bus clucking their tongues. The world as it is nee...

It's not that I'm not grateful for all this attention. It's just that fame and fortune ought to add ...

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

Peace is not something you wish for,  it is something you make, something you are, something you do...

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

Until you have experienced raccoons mating underneath your bedroom at three in the morning, you have...

Always trust your fellow man. And always cut the cards. Always trust God. And always build your hous...

Don't Believe Everything You Think!

The gift was not large as money goes, and my need was not great, but the spirit of the gift is beyon...

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

Liberation, I guess, is everybody getting what they think they want, without knowing the whole truth...

Does the giraffe know what he's for? Or care? Or even think about his place in things? A giraffe has...

It's just this: that there are places we all come from-deep-rooty-common places- that makes us who w...

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...

I know what I really want for Christmas.I want my childhood back.Nobody is going to give me that. I ...

About winning and losing: It isn't important, what really counts is how you play the game. About pla...

As one old gentleman put it, " Son, I don't care if you're stark nekkid and wear a bone in your nose...

The Indian danced on alone. The crowd clapped up the beat. The Indian danced with a chair. The crowd...

The Sikh gave him the money. When Menon asked for his address so that he could repay the man, the Si...

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That d...

If only the scientific experts could come up with something to get it out of our minds. One cup of f...

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

Is it always to be a winners-losers world, or can we keep everyone in the game? Do we still have wha...

Wherever and however any one of us may be conceived, it is the same. We come into being in the arms ...

If you tell people you talk to God, they'll think you're religious, but if you say God talks to you,...

Instructions For WayfarersThey will declare: Every journey has been taken.You shall respond: I have ...

We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is co...

We're all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is co...

There is a tree. At the downhill edge of a long, narrow field in the western foothills of the La Sal...

One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a proble...

The pig was so earnest. So sincere. So very “there.” The pig brought gravity and mythic import to th...

Pardon me, but my father says that it is a lie that Americans have everything. You have no sheep, no...