"It wasn’t in books. It wasn’t in a……" — Robert Fulghum

"It wasn’t in books. It wasn’t in a church. What I needed to know was out there in the world."

— Robert Fulghum

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148 Quotes by Robert Fulghum

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Love is a fabric which never fades, no matter how often it is washed in the water of adversity and…
If dandelions were rare and fragile, people would knock themselves out to pay $14.95 a plant, raise them by hand…
I love this child. Red-haired - patient and gentle like her mother - fey and funny like her father. When…
To look this way is to see. To see is to have vision. To have vision is to understand. To…
I believe it is in my nature to dance by virtue of the beat of my heart, the pulse of…
Sometimes history knocks at the most ordinary door to see if anyone is home. Sometimes someone is.
It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.
Public lives are lived out on the job and in the marketplace, where certain rules, conventions, laws, and social customs…
I once listed all the good things I did over the past year, and then turned them into resolution form…
Doing a straight-forward, clear-cut task that has a beginning and an end balances out the complexity-without-end that often vexes the…
If you notice phrases, ideas, and anecdotes that closely resemble those that appear elsewhere in my writing, it's not a…
The point is that getting married for lust or money or social status or even love is usually trouble. The…

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High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
I was never really a comic-book fanatic. — J. J. Abrams
When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you… — Julian Assange
Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to… — Paul Auster
I'm not a comic book guy at all. — Darren Aronofsky
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is… — Isaac Asimov
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except… — David Attenborough
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the… — Margaret Atwood
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But… — Margaret Atwood

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