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 More Quotes by Fred Rogers More Quotes From Fred Rogers Love is like infinity: You can't have more or less infinity, and you can't compare two things to see if they're "equally infinite." Infinity just is, and that's the way I think love is, too. Fred Rogers love-is two thinking It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood, a beautiful day for a neighbor. Would you be mine; could you be mine? Fred Rogers neighbor mines beautiful What's been important in my understanding of myself and others is the fact that each one of us is so much more than any one thing. A sick child is much more than his or her sickness. A person with a disability is much, much more than a handicap. A pediatrician is more than a medical doctor. You're MUCH more than your job description or your age or your income or your output. Fred Rogers doctors jobs children We're all on a journey - each one of us. And if we can be sensitive to the person who happens to be our neighbor, that, to me, is the greatest challenge as well as the greatest pleasure. Fred Rogers neighbor journey challenges Fame is a four-letter word; and like tape or zoom or face or pain or life or love, what ultimately matters is what we do with it. Fred Rogers zoom tape pain Imagining may be the first step in making it happen, but it takes the real time and real efforts of real people to learn things, make things, turn thoughts into deeds or visions into inventions. Fred Rogers effort real people This is what I give. I give an expression of care every day to each child, to help him realize that he is unique. I end each program by saying, 'You've made this day a special day by just your being you. There's no person in the whole world like you. And I like you just the way you are.' And I feel that if we in public television can only make it clear that feelings are mentionable and manageable, we will have done a great service. Fred Rogers unique i-like-you children There's a world of difference between insisting on someone's doing something and establishing an atmosphere in which that person can grow into wanting to do it. Fred Rogers atmosphere differences world It's a beautiful day in this neighborhood, A beautiful day for a neighbor. Would you be mine? Could you be mine?... It's a neighborly day in this beauty wood, A neighborly day for a beauty. Would you be mine? Could you be mine?... I've always wanted to have a neighbor just like you. I've always wanted to live in a neighborhood with you. So, let's make the most of this beautiful day. Since we're together we might as well say: Would you be mine? Could you be mine? Won't you be my neighbor? Won't you please, Won't you please? Please won't you be my neighbor? Fred Rogers together might beautiful If you like to make things out of wood, or sew, or dance, or style people's hair, or dream up stories and act them out, or play the trumpet, or jump rope, or whatever you really love to do, and you love that in front of your children, that's going to be a far more important gift than anything you could ever give them wrapped up in a box with ribbons. Fred Rogers dream fun children Whatever we choose to imagine can be as private as we want it to be. Nobody knows what you're thinking or feeling unless you share it. Fred Rogers want feelings thinking There is no normal life that is free of pain. It's the very wrestling with our problems that can be the impetus for our growth. Fred Rogers growth pain wrestling How sad it is that we give up on people who are just like us. Fred Rogers sad giving-up life 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 suspense holiday children I think it's very important - no matter what you may do professionally - to keep alive some of the healthy interests of your youth. Children's play is not just kids' stuff. Children's play is rather the stuff of most future inventions. Fred Rogers kids children thinking Love isn't a state of perfect caring, it is an active noun like struggle. Fred Rogers caring struggle love-is I've often hesitated in beginning a project because I've thought, 'It'll never turn out to be even remotely like the good idea I have as I start.' I could just 'feel' how good it could be. but I decided that, for the present, I would create the best way I know how and accept the ambiguities. Fred Rogers accepting way ideas I believe it's a fact of life that what we have is less important than what we make out of what we have. Fred Rogers important believe facts It is one of the paradoxes of parenting, and often a painful paradox, that even as our children need us for love and trust, they also need us for honest differing. It's not only over limits and rules...[but also] about what we represent in the way of culture, traditions, and values. We owe it to our children to let them know what we believe, and if they differ with us, we owe it to them to be honest adversaries, for it is through this honest confrontation that children can grow into adults who have a firm sense of their place in the sequence of the generations. Fred Rogers generations believe children Love and trust, in the space between what’s said and what’s heard in our life, can make all the difference in the world. Fred Rogers differences space world
