Fred Rogers

When we treat children's play as seriously as it deserves, we are helping them feel the joy that's to be found in…

— Fred Rogers

We all have only one life to live on Earth, and through television we have the choice of encouraging others to demean…

— Fred Rogers

It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood, a beautiful day for a neighbor. Would you be mine; could you be mine?

— Fred Rogers

I wonder what memories of yours will persist as you go on in life. My hunch is that the most important will…

— Fred Rogers

Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.

— Fred Rogers

I think people who produce and perform on programs for children should have as a prerequisite some sort of course to understand…

— Fred Rogers

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

Listening is where love begins: listening to ourselves and then to our neighbors.

— Fred Rogers

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

One of the greatest dignities of humankind is that each successive generation is invested in the welfare of each new generation.

— Fred Rogers

“You can't really love someone else unless you really love yourself first.”

— Fred Rogers

“You know, I think everybody longs to be loved, and longs to know that he or she is lovable. And consequently, the…

— Fred Rogers

I don't think anyone can grow unless he's loved exactly as he is now, appreciated for what he is rather than what…

— Fred Rogers

We've forgotten what it's like not to be able to reach the light switch. We've forgotten a lot of the monsters that…

— Fred Rogers

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play…

— Fred Rogers

Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of…

— Fred Rogers

Transitions are almost always signs of growth, but they can bring feelings of loss. To get somewhere new, we may have to…

— Fred Rogers

If you like to make things out of wood, or sew, or dance, or style people's hair, or dream up stories and…

— Fred Rogers

All life events are formative. All contribute to what we become, year by year, as we go on growing. As my friend…

— Fred Rogers

All I know to do is to light the candle that has been given to me.

— Fred Rogers

“Listening and trying to understand the needs of those we would communicate with seems to me to be the essential prerequisite of…

— Fred Rogers

Our children are extensions of ourselves in ways our parents are not, nor our brothers and sisters, nor our spouses.

— Fred Rogers

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

How great it is when we come to know that times of disappointment can be followed by joy; that guilt over falling…

— Fred Rogers

I don't want to eat anything that has a mother

— Fred Rogers