Influence Quote by Ruth Buzzi

The benefits kids get from watching "Sesame Street" can be as powerful as the ones children get from preschool.

— Julie Roginsky

There is nothing that 'Sesame Street' can't teach you, if you let it.

— Sarah Churchwell

'Sesame Street' was built on the idea that a show that could capture a child's attention could also give the child an education. That…

— Elizabeth Flock

'Sesame Street' was a pioneering educational T.V. show, intended to help underprivileged children. But even those of us middle-class kids spoilt for pedagogical choice…

— Sarah Churchwell

'Sesame Street's' genius lies in finding gentle ways to talk about hard things - death, divorce, danger - in terms that children understand and…

— Nancy Gibbs

I learned my ABCs, 1-2-3 from 'Sesame Street.'

— Tyra Banks

Sesame Street is the epitome of children’s television. It has continued to maintain the successful structure that was established in the beginning. Through it’s…

— Kevin Clash

“Sesame Street succeeded because it learned how to make television sticky.”

— Malcolm Gladwell

The Tonight Show' afforded us the opportunity to work with The Muppets and other 'Sesame Street' characters, and we always had the desire to…

— Black Thought

I was always fascinated by how things work and learning about them.

— Eugene Parker

“Parents embraced “Sesame Street” for several reasons, among them that it assuaged their guilt over the fact that they could not or would not…

— Neil Postman

I wondered how television worked. I thought about how an interior decorator decided on colors and styles. I wondered, when babies tarted learning how…

— Cupcake Brown