All Robert Fulghum Quotes
- Love is a fabric which never fades, no matter how often it is washed in the water of adversity and grief. Adversity
- If dandelions were rare and fragile, people would knock themselves out to pay $14.95 a plant, raise them by hand in greenhouses, and form dandelion… All
- I love this child. Red-haired - patient and gentle like her mother - fey and funny like her father. When she giggles I can hear… Beans
- To look this way is to see. To see is to have vision. To have vision is to understand. To understand is to know. To… Become Light
- I believe it is in my nature to dance by virtue of the beat of my heart, the pulse of my blood and the music… Beat
- Sometimes history knocks at the most ordinary door to see if anyone is home. Sometimes someone is. Anyone
- It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do. Believe
- Public lives are lived out on the job and in the marketplace, where certain rules, conventions, laws, and social customs keep most of us in… Allowed
- I once listed all the good things I did over the past year, and then turned them into resolution form and backdated them. That was… All
- 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 my life. Sacred… Balance
- If you notice phrases, ideas, and anecdotes that closely resemble those that appear elsewhere in my writing, it's not a matter of sloppy editing. I'm… Anecdotes
- The point is that getting married for lust or money or social status or even love is usually trouble. The point is that marriage is… Best
- I'd like to speak a foreign language well enough to get the jokes. I'd like to talk with Socrates, and watch Michelangelo sculpt David. I'd… Ago
- Arguing whether or not a God exists is like fleas arguing whether or not the dog exists. Arguing over the correct name for God is… Arguing
- Only an open mind still has room for new knowledge. What is outgrown and used up must be discarded to make room for what is… Alone
- Sirius, the brightest star in the heavens.... My grandfather would say we're part of something incredibly wonderful - more marvelous than we imagine. My grandfather… Brightest
- The name is not important anymore - it's the tone that counts. I feel like an old dog I know. He will come to any… Affection
- Life is. I am. Anything might happen. And I believe I may invest my life with meaning. The uncertainty is a blessing in disguise. If… Absolutely
- If someone were to ask me whether I believed in God, or saw God, or had a particular relationship with God, I would reply that… Any
- When my father finally got around to teaching me to drive, he was impressed at my "natural" talent for driving, not knowing that I had… Acknowledged
- One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem. Best
- Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup-they all die. So do we. All
- You can't always explain everything you do to everybody, you know. Everybody
- 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 cold, dirty and… Alpha
- Living things have been doing just that for a long, long time. Through every kind of disaster and setback and catastrophe. We are survivors. Been