Fred Rogers Quotes

"How sad it is that we give up on people who are just like us."
- Fred Rogers
(Related: People)

"I think of discipline as the continual everyday process of helping a child learn self-discipline."
- Fred Rogers
(Related: Discipline, Self)

"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."
- Fred Rogers
(Related: Future, Parents, Past)

"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."
- Fred Rogers
(Related: Work, Childhood, Children, Learning, Play)

"You know, you don't have to look like everybody else to be acceptable and to feel acceptable."
- Fred Rogers

"I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending."
- Fred Rogers
(Related: Anticipation, Ending, Favorite, Holiday, Moments, Pleasure, Suspense)