Fred Rogers Quotes

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  When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, “Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.

  Fred Rogers

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  What really matters is whether the alphabet is used for the declaration of war or for the description of a sunrise.

  Fred Rogers

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  Tags in Really, Declaration, Description

• The connections we make in the course of a life–maybe that’s what heaven is.

  Fred Rogers

  Topics in Life

• In times of stress, the best thing we can do for each other is to listen with our ears and our hearts and to be assured that our questions are just as important as our answers.

  Fred Rogers

  Topics in Inspirational

• Who we are in the present includes who we were in the past.

  Fred Rogers

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• How sad it is that we give up on people who are just like us.

  Fred Rogers

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• I think of discipline as the continual everyday process of helping a child learn self-discipline.

  Fred Rogers

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  Tags in Discipline, Helping

• I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending.

  Fred Rogers

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  Tags in Story, Child, Pleasure, Favorite

• Parents are like shuttles on a loom. They join the threads of the past with threads of the future and leave their own bright patterns as they go.

  Fred Rogers

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  Tags in Like, Parents

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

  Fred Rogers

  Topics in Opportunity

  Tags in People, Loved, Best

• Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.

  Fred Rogers

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  Tags in Serious, Learning, Childhood

• You know, you don’t have to look like everybody else to be acceptable and to feel acceptable.

  Fred Rogers

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  Tags in Feel, Like

Fred Rogers (12)

Birth:	20th March, 1928
Death:	27th February, 2003
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Composer, Educator, Lyricist, Puppeteer, Television Personality

About

Fred McFeely Rogers was born in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an American television personality, puppeteer, educator, composer, songwriter, and author. He was most famous for creating, hosting, and composing the theme music for the educational preschool television series Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, which featured his kind, gentle, soft-spoken personality and directness to his audiences. Over the course of three decades on television, he became an icon of American children's entertainment and education. He was also known for his advocacy of various public causes. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, some forty honorary degrees, and a Peabody Award.

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