Robert Fulghum Quotes
Top 90 wise famous quotes and sayings by Robert Fulghum
Robert Fulghum Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Robert Fulghum on Wise Famous Quotes.
Don't sell yourself short. You may never have proof of your importance, but you are more important than you think.
Is it always to be a winners-losers world, or can we keep everyone in the game? Do we still have what it takes to find a better way?
All I ever needed to know I learned in kindergarten. Share everything ... Don't hit people ... Clean up your own mess ...
A giraffe has a black tongue twenty-seven inches long and no vocal cords. A giraffe has nothing to say. He just goes on giraffing.
Remember, most of us got something for nothing the first time just by showing up here at birth. Now we have to qualify.
The pig was so earnest. So sincere. So very "there." The pig brought gravity and mythic import to this well-worn fairy tale.
Wherever and however any one of us may be conceived, it is the same. We come into being in the arms of God.
Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw some and paint some and sing and dance and play and work everyday some.
The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. The grass is greenest where it is watered.
It is the chair in honor of all those who, however competently, embrace the impossible. Sit in that chair someday.
We even make ourselves up, fusing what we are with what we wish into what we must become. I'm not sure why it must be so, but it is.
Life will examine us continually to see if we have understood and have practiced what we were taught that first year of school.
Just when you thought that you already learned the way how to live, life changes - and you're left the same as you begun.
And sure, I know if you eat this way you'll die. So? If you don't eat this way you're still going to die. Why not die happy?
Life is lumpy. And a lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat, and a lump in a breast are not the same lump. One should learn the difference.
Living things have been doing just that for a long, long time. Through every kind of disaster and setback and catastrophe. We are survivors.
The gift was not large as money goes, and my need was not great, but the spirit of the gift is beyond price and leaves me blessed and in debt.
The kindergarten children are confident in spirit, infinite in resources, and eager to learn. Everything is still possible.
Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup. The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.
Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts ...
Peace is not something you wish for, it is something you make, something you are, something you do,and something you give away.
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 in my mind.
Infinite possibility in all things is a certainty. That pretty much covers theology and philosophy for me.
It's not that I'm not grateful for all this attention. It's just that fame and fortune ought to add up to more than fame and fortune.
If I don't have time to live my life well the first time, when am I going to find the time to go back and live it over?
The best feelings in your life come when you start feeling good after you've been feeling just awful
If we could just figure out how to have more fun at it, maybe more of us would join the ranks of those who seek after justice and mercy.
If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.
This is an exercise in power - the power of mind over matter. If you don't mind being inadequate, it doesn't matter.
The leaves let go, the seeds let go, and I must let go sometimes, too, and cast my lot with another of nature's imperfect but tenacious survivors.
It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have a bake-sale to buy a bomber.
Now Everybody has some secret goals in life ... Sometimes you can get what you want and what you need at the sames time.
Until you have experienced raccoons mating underneath your bedroom at three in the morning, you have missed one of life's sensational moments.
Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup - they all die. So do we.
Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there at the sandpile at Sunday School.
About winning and losing: It isn't important, what really counts is how you play the game. About playing the game: PLAY TO WIN!
If you tell people you talk to God, they'll think you're religious, but if you say God talks to you, it's ten to one they'll think you're crazy.
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 a good feeling