--- title: "1 Children Tv Quotes By Tom Junod" description: "1 Children Tv quotes by Tom Junod. Plus more from Tom Junod and more Children Tv sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7d6/tom-junod-5058_1950s_fred-rogers-was-a-children-s-tv-host-but_1944689.jpg" --- > [Fred Rogers was a children's-TV host, but he was not Captain Kangaroo or Officer Joe Bolton. He was an ordained Presbyterian minister who was so appalled by what he saw on 1950s television--adults trying to entertain children by throwing pies…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-junod/fred-rogers-was-a-children-s-tv-host-but-he-was-not-captain-kangaroo/) [Tom Junod](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-junod/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7d6/tom-junod-5058_1950s_fred-rogers-was-a-children-s-tv-host-but_1944689.jpg) ## More by Tom Junod > [Every artist can make art only from the materials at hand, and many of the child stars who try to mature into artists can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-junod/every-artist-can-make-art-only-from-the-materials-at-hand-and-many-of/) [Tom Junod](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-junod/) > [I wasn't learning to sing because I thought I could; I was learning to sing because I knew I couldn't.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-junod/i-wasn-t-learning-to-sing-because-i-thought-i-could-i-was-learning-to/) [Tom Junod](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-junod/) > [We might accept pit bulls personally, but America still doesn't accept them institutionally, where it counts; indeed, apartment complexes and insurance companies are arrayed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-junod/we-might-accept-pit-bulls-personally-but-america-still-doesn-t-accept/) [Tom Junod](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-junod/) > [I collect songs because I want to control what I - what everybody within earshot - listens to.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-junod/i-collect-songs-because-i-want-to-control-what-i-what-everybody/) [Tom Junod](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-junod/) > [Any child can tell you what Google does - Google gives you the answers. But Google doesn't, not really.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-junod/any-child-can-tell-you-what-google-does-google-gives-you-the-answers/) [Tom Junod](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-junod/) > [My mother was not a country girl. She was a Brooklyn girl, born and raised in Flatbush, and then a Long Island girl, who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-junod/my-mother-was-not-a-country-girl-she-was-a-brooklyn-girl-born-and/) [Tom Junod](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-junod/) > [That there is as yet no drug for immortality - or, for that matter, for muscle growth in the infirm - does not mean…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-junod/that-there-is-as-yet-no-drug-for-immortality-or-for-that-matter-for/) [Tom Junod](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-junod/) > [I am not running for president, but I've always known if I ever did run for president - or local dogcatcher, for that matter…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-junod/i-am-not-running-for-president-but-i-ve-always-known-if-i-ever-did/) [Tom Junod](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-junod/) > [Josh Ozersky was a meat man. He knew meat, revered it, studied it, sang it, evangelized it, wrote about it, and, of course, ate…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-junod/josh-ozersky-was-a-meat-man-he-knew-meat-revered-it-studied-it-sang/) [Tom Junod](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-junod/) > [I was a bully in fifth and sixth grade. I wasn't one of the bullies - I wasn't strong or dominant enough to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-junod/i-was-a-bully-in-fifth-and-sixth-grade-i-wasn-t-one-of-the-bullies-i/) [Tom Junod](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-junod/) > [I have about 25,000 songs on my computer and play them mostly on shuffle, which means that the songs I've played the most are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-junod/i-have-about-25-000-songs-on-my-computer-and-play-them-mostly-on/) [Tom Junod](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-junod/) > [Before the Beatles could give us 'The White Album', they had to achieve disorienting success.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-junod/before-the-beatles-could-give-us-the-white-album-they-had-to-achieve/) [Tom Junod](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-junod/) > [Ask people who know him for a description of Bob Dylan outside the prerogatives of fame and the obligations of art, and they have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-junod/ask-people-who-know-him-for-a-description-of-bob-dylan-outside-the/) [Tom Junod](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-junod/) > [I had heard a lot of stories about my father and celebrities, most of them from his own mouth. In his stories, famous women…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-junod/i-had-heard-a-lot-of-stories-about-my-father-and-celebrities-most-of/) [Tom Junod](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-junod/) > [You learn a lot about America when you own a pit bull. You learn not just who likes your dog; you learn what kind…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-junod/you-learn-a-lot-about-america-when-you-own-a-pit-bull-you-learn-not/) [Tom Junod](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-junod/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/children-tv/tom-junod/#itemlist", "name": "1 Children Tv Quotes By Tom Junod", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Fred Rogers was a children's-TV host, but he was not Captain Kangaroo or Officer Joe Bolton. 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