Do you notice that all presidents have a dog? There is always a First Dog. Or two or three. You have to… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be, I learned in kindergarten.… — Robert Fulghum Graduate school Copy Share Image
Doing a straight-forward, clear-cut task that has a beginning and an end balances out the complexity-without-end that often vexes the rest of… — Robert Fulghum Balance Copy Share Image
We are the only creatures that both laugh and weep. I think it's because we are the only creatures that see the… — Robert Fulghum Animal Copy Share Image
All of these are names given me by other people, but not names I would have given myself. My name is not… — Robert Fulghum Costumes Copy Share Image
Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup. The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
My goal now is to dance all the dances as long as I can, and then to sit down contented after the… — Robert Fulghum Dance Copy Share Image
Only now have I finally realized that my life has been an unending field trip. And I have tried hard not to… — Robert Fulghum Adventure Copy Share Image
If someone were to ask me whether I believed in God, or saw God, or had a particular relationship with God, I… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
The older I get, the more I realize the importance of exercising the various dimensions of my body, soul, mind, and heart.… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
“Arguing whether or not God exists is like fleas arguing whether or not the dog exists. Arguing over the correct name of… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
To look this way is to see. To see is to have vision. To have vision is to understand. To understand is… — Robert Fulghum Dreams Copy Share Image
I love this child. Red-haired - patient and gentle like her mother - fey and funny like her father. When she giggles… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
It’s harder to talk about, but what I really, really, really want for Christmas is just this: I want to be 5… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
“Nobody goes "AAAAAAAGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!" when they sing it. Maybe because it puts the life adventure in such clear and simple terms. The small… — Robert Fulghum Adventure Copy Share Image
“Th communique repeated the information. “He went to the body of his wife and wouldn’t leave it, although she was dead.” How… — Robert Fulghum Good times Copy Share Image
All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten.… — Robert Fulghum Books Copy Share Image
As one old gentleman put it, " Son, I don't care if you're stark nekkid and wear a bone in your nose.… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. No, not at all. Fences have nothing… — Robert Fulghum Crossing over Copy Share Image
Always trust your fellow man. And always cut the cards. Always trust God. And always build your house on high ground. Always… — Robert Fulghum Balance Copy Share Image
I once listed all the good things I did over the past year, and then turned them into resolution form and backdated… — Robert Fulghum Feelings Copy Share Image
I get tired of hearing it's a crummy world and that people are no damned good. What kind of talk is that?… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
The name is not important anymore - it's the tone that counts. I feel like an old dog I know. He will… — Robert Fulghum Affection Copy Share Image
“If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat or your house is on fire, you've got a problem. Everything… — Robert Fulghum Inconvenience Copy Share Image
It's not that I'm not grateful for all this attention. It's just that fame and fortune ought to add up to more… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
A giraffe has a black tongue twenty-seven inches long and no vocal cords. A giraffe has nothing to say. He just goes… — Robert Fulghum Animal Copy Share Image
We even make ourselves up, fusing what we are with what we wish into what we must become. I'm not sure why… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
The leaves let go, the seeds let go, and I must let go sometimes, too, and cast my lot with another of… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
“Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw some and paint some and sing and dance and play… — Robert Fulghum Balanced life Copy Share Image
I'm good at doing the laundry. At least that. And it's a religious experience...Water, earth, fire-polarities of wet and dry, hot and… — Robert Fulghum Alpha and omega Copy Share Image
“Machines and relatives get most of the yelling. But never trees. As for people, well, the Solomon islanders may have a point.… — Robert Fulghum Computers Copy Share Image
Instructions For Wayfarers They will declare: Every journey has been taken. You shall respond: I have not been to see myself. They… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
If you notice phrases, ideas, and anecdotes that closely resemble those that appear elsewhere in my writing, it's not a matter of… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
I am a fragment of a mirror whose whole design and shape I do not know. Nevertheless, with what I have -… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
“Without realizing it, we fill important places in each other’s lives. It’s that way with the guy at the corner grocery, the… — Robert Fulghum Good people Copy Share Image
Making a living and having a life are not the same thing. Making a living and making a life that's worthwhile are… — Robert Fulghum Good life Copy Share Image
What I notice is that every adult or child I give a new set of Crayolas to goes a little funny. The… — Robert Fulghum Adults Copy Share Image
Sometimes, when asked the what-do-you-do question, it occurs to me to say that I work for the government. I have a government… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
The Indian danced on alone. The crowd clapped up the beat. The Indian danced with a chair. The crowd went crazy. The… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
If dandelions were rare and fragile, people would knock themselves out to pay $14.95 a plant, raise them by hand in greenhouses,… — Robert Fulghum Dandelions Copy Share Image
