To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now. — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
We all have different gifts, so we all have different ways of saying to the world who we are. — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
When I first saw children's television, I thought it was perfectly horrible. And I thought there was some way of using this… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
I went into television because I hated it so, and I thought there's some way of using this fabulous instrument to nurture… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
For a couple with young children, divorce seldom comes as a "solution" to stress, only as a way to end one form… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
When we love a person, we accept him or her exactly as is: the lovely with the unlovely, the strong with the… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
Love is like infinity: You can't have more or less infinity, and you can't compare two things to see if they're "equally… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
Parents find many different ways to work their way through the assertiveness of their two-year-olds, but seeing that assertiveness as positive energy… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
The gifts we treasure most over the years are often small and simple. In easy times and tough times, what seems to… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
Very frankly, I am opposed to people being programmed by others. My whole approach in broadcasting has always been 'You are an… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
I've often hesitated in beginning a project because I've thought, 'It'll never turn out to be even remotely like the good idea… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
Love is at the root of all healthy discipline. The desire to be loved is a powerful motivation for children to behave… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
A young apprentice applied to a master carpenter for a job. The older man asked him, "Do you know your trade?" "Yes,… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
And those handmade presents that children often bring home from school: They have so much value! The value is that the child… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
When we choose to be parents, we accept another human being as part of ourselves, and a large part of our emotional… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
The presence of a grandparent confirms that parents were, indeed, little once, too, and that people who are little can grow to… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
It's not always easy for a father to understand the interests and ways of his son. It seems the songs of our… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
It is one of the paradoxes of parenting, and often a painful paradox, that even as our children need us for love… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
Part of the problem with the word 'disabilities' is that it immediately suggests an inability to see or hear or walk or… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
Listening is a very active awareness of the coming together of at least two lives. Listening, as far as I'm concerned, is… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
What interests me so much about the characters of the Bible is that they make mistakes but God uses them anyway, in… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
Parenting forces us to get to know ourselves better than we ever might have imagined we could--and in many new ways. .… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
Our children are extensions of ourselves in ways our parents are not, nor our brothers and sisters, nor our spouses. — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
My hunch is that if we allow ourselves to give who we really are to the children in our care, we will… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
We all have only one life to live on Earth, and through television we have the choice of encouraging others to demean… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
Of course, I get angry. Of course, I get sad. I have a full range of emotions. I also have a whole… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
This is what I give. I give an expression of care every day to each child, to help him realize that he… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
I wonder what memories of yours will persist as you go on in life. My hunch is that the most important will… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
I don't believe that children can develop in a healthy way unless they feel that they have value apart from anything they… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
Very early in our children's lives we will be forced to realize that the "perfect" untroubled life we'd like for them is… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
Children long to know that they are lovable. And there are ways that technology can help with that. But ultimately it's their… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
I saw this new thing called television, and I saw people throwing pies in each other's faces, and I thought, 'This could… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
One way to think about play, is as the process of finding new combinations for known things--combinations that may yield new formsof… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
Listening is a very active awareness of the coming together of at least two lives. Listening, as far as I'm concerned, is certainly a… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
Children who have learned to be comfortably dependent can become not only comfortably independent but also comfortable with having people depend on them. They… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
As different as we are from one another, as unique as each one of us is, we are much more the same than we… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
This evening is as brief as the twinkling of an eye yet such twinklings is what eternity is made of. — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
The underlying message of the Neighborhood is that if somebody cares about you, it's possible that you'll care about others. 'You are special, and… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
The greatest gift that you can give another person is to gracefully receive whatever it is that they want to give us. — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
The values we care about the deepest, and the movements within society that support those values, command our love. When those things that we… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
“Everyone longs to be loved. And the greatest thing we can do is to let people know that they are loved and capable of… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
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