Part of the problem with the word 'disabilities' is that it immediately suggests an inability to see...
FRED ROGERS When I say it's you I like, I'm talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than...
FRED ROGERS The very best reason parents are so special . . . is because we are the holders of a priceless gift,...
FRED ROGERS Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me.
FRED ROGERS Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. Whe...
FRED ROGERS You know, you don't have to look like everybody else to be acceptable and to feel acceptable.
FRED ROGERS Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is se...
FRED ROGERS What's been important in my understanding of myself and others is the fact that each one of us is so...
FRED ROGERS In the external scheme of things, shining moments are as brief as the twinkling of an eye, yet such ...
FRED ROGERS I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure ...
FRED ROGERS Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatica...
FRED ROGERS The thing I remember best about successful people I've met all through the years is their obvious de...
FRED ROGERS When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the ...
FRED ROGERS Parents are like shuttles on a loom. They join the threads of the past with threads of the future an...
FRED ROGERS Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into th...
FRED ROGERS I thought there was some way of using this fabulous instrument to be of nurture to those who would w...
FRED ROGERS When I saw the toy piano on one of the pages, that was it!
FRED ROGERS What makes the difference between wishing and realizing our wishes? Lots of things, and it may take ...
FRED ROGERS The connections we make in the course of a life--maybe that's what heaven is.
FRED ROGERS Who we are in the present includes who we were in the past.
FRED ROGERS You know, you don't have to look like everybody else to be acceptable and to feel acceptable.
FRED ROGERS How sad it is that we give up on people who are just like us.
FRED ROGERS He was an enormous talent, and for him to have been able to offer that to children through the neigh...
FRED ROGERS All of us, at some time or other, need help. Whether we’re giving or receiving help, each one of u...
FRED ROGERS How many times have you noticed that it’s the little quiet moments in the midst of life that seem ...
FRED ROGERS It's the people we love the most who can make us feel the gladdest ... and the maddest! Love and ang...
FRED ROGERS It's not the honors and the prizes and the fancy outsides of life that ultimately nourish our souls....
FRED ROGERS Kenneth Koch once said, “You aren’t just the age you are. You are all the ages you ever have bee...
FRED ROGERS Real strength has to do with helping others.
FRED ROGERS The values we care about the deepest, and the movements within society that support those values, co...
FRED ROGERS Most of us, I believe, admire strength. It's something we tend to respect in others, desire for ours...
FRED ROGERS Music is the one art we all have inside. We may not be able to play an instrument, but we can sing a...
FRED ROGERS Often out of periods of losing come the greatest strivings toward a new winning streak.
FRED ROGERS A young apprentice applied to a master carpenter for a job. The older man asked him, "Do you know yo...
FRED ROGERS Whatever we choose to imagine can be as private as we want it to be. Nobody knows what you're thinki...
FRED ROGERS Solitude is different from loneliness, and it doesn't have to be a lonely kind of thing.
FRED ROGERS There's no "should" or "should not" when it comes to having feelings. They're part of who we are and...
FRED ROGERS Love is like infinity: You can't have more or less infinity, and you can't compare two things to see...
FRED ROGERS How great it is when we come to know that times of disappointment can be followed by joy; that guilt...
FRED ROGERS Confronting our feelings and giving them appropriate expression always takes strength, not weakness....
FRED ROGERS There is no normal life that is free of pain. It's the very wrestling with our problems that can be ...
FRED ROGERS The thing I remember best about successful people I've met all through the years is their obvious de...
FRED ROGERS We need to help people to discover the true meaning of love. Love is generally confused with depende...
FRED ROGERS Whether we're a preschooler or a young teen, a graduating college senior or a retired person, we hum...
FRED ROGERS I hope you're proud of yourself for the times you've said "yes," when all it meant was extra work fo...
FRED ROGERS Mutual caring relationships require kindness and patience, tolerance, optimism, joy in the other's a...
FRED ROGERS Love isn't a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to stri...
FRED ROGERS It's a beautiful day in this neighborhood,
A beautiful day for a neighbor.
Would you be mi...
FRED ROGERS The child is in me still and sometimes not so still.
FRED ROGERS In times of stress, the best thing we can do for each other is to listen with our ears and our heart...
FRED ROGERS Some days, doing "the best we can" may still fall short of what we would like to be able to do, but ...
FRED ROGERS Pretending doesn't require expensive toys.
FRED ROGERS You can't really love someone else unless you really love yourself first.
FRED ROGERS Mutually caring relationships require kindness and patience, tolerance, optimism, joy in the other's...
FRED ROGERS When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, 'Look for ...
FRED ROGERS I think of discipline as the continual everyday process of helping a child learn self-discipline.
FRED ROGERS Often when you think you're at the end of something, you're at the beginning of something else. I've...
FRED ROGERS [I]f we can bring our children understanding, comfort, and hopefulness when they need this kind of s...
FRED ROGERS The only thing evil can’t stand is forgiveness.
FRED ROGERS When we treat children's play as seriously as it deserves, we are helping them feel the joy that's t...
FRED ROGERS Discovering the truth about ourselves is a lifetime’s work, but it’s worth the effort.
FRED ROGERS You know, I think everybody longs to be loved, and longs to know that he or she is lovable. And cons...
FRED ROGERS No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in lo...
ROGERS Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.
WILL ROGERS Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious.
WILL ROGERS Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.
WILL ROGERS Last year we said, 'Things can't go on like this', and they didn't, they got worse.
WILL ROGERS The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.
WILL ROGERS People in Hollywood are going make pictures where ever it's the least expensive to make them.
WAYNE ROGERS There is a big cry in California to stop everyone from running to Canada.
WAYNE ROGERS It's not up to the employer to decide or to figure out what religious problems you may have as a...
WAYNE ROGERS When you start a sentence with the word 'illegal', you've got nowhere to go. An illegal ...
WAYNE ROGERS Free speech is not a bogus issue. It is an issue.
WAYNE ROGERS Our children and grandchildren are not going to have the same standard of living unless we educate t...
WAYNE ROGERS Entrepreneurs bring to business... creativity.
WAYNE ROGERS I have no great desire to play a great role. You can't make quality on TV anyway. It's alway...
WAYNE ROGERS Everything that is large and institutional should be distrusted, even though it may be the best arou...
WAYNE ROGERS The best government is the least government. In some areas, I'm libertarian. I don't subscri...
WAYNE ROGERS You can't change the market; the market just is.
WAYNE ROGERS I have always been interested in theater, as an actor and as someone who looks upon theater - at the...
WAYNE ROGERS I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.
WAYNE ROGERS I may have a slightly paranoid nature, a fear of losing control of my life.
WAYNE ROGERS I'd heard stories about business managers who lost their client's money. My feeling was that...
WAYNE ROGERS The rehearsal is where it all happens for an actor.
WAYNE ROGERS You trivialize the idea of competition totally, then there's no point in having the competition ...
WAYNE ROGERS Look first at management. That's the key to a company.
WAYNE ROGERS I'm not hiding anything. What you see is what you get.
WAYNE ROGERS I love to be in the position of not knowing what I'm gonna do, but having rehearsed all of those...
WAYNE ROGERS People will always want a free lunch.
WAYNE ROGERS The world is getting smaller and smaller every day. We cannot find ourselves dependent on somebody w...
WAYNE ROGERS When it comes to jobs, jobs are just like products in the sense that the free market operates and se...
WAYNE ROGERS If you are an entrepreneur, you have to think outside of the box.
WAYNE ROGERS What's a butterfly garden without butterflies?
ROY ROGERS Never let yesterday use up too much of today.
WILL ROGERS I always tried to hit the ball back through the box because that is the largest unprotected area.
ROGERS HORNSBY It don't make no difference where I go or what happens, so long as I can play the full nine.
ROGERS HORNSBY To be a good hitter you've got to do one thing - get a good ball to hit.
ROGERS HORNSBY Now the advantage is all with the hitters.
ROGERS HORNSBY I've never been a yes man.
ROGERS HORNSBY I don't like to sound egotistical, but every time I stepped up to the plate with a bat in my han...
ROGERS HORNSBY I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.
ROGERS HORNSBY I believe in dressing for the occasion. There's a time for sweater, sneakers and Levis and a tim...
GINGER ROGERS Sure, jets are fast and economical, but, oh my, what fun we've lost and what leisure we've s...
GINGER ROGERS When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.
WILL ROGERS I'm the chairman of the intelligence committee. We don't only get formal briefings, but we c...
MIKE ROGERS I have always said that a conference was held for one reason only, to give everybody a chance to get...
WILL ROGERS I have no Politics. I am for the Party that is out of Power, no matter which one it is. But I will g...
WILL ROGERS When I die, my epitaph or whatever you call those signs on gravestones is going to read: I joked abo...
WILL ROGERS Here it is, a New Year. We got to make some resolutions, as well as interest and tax payments in thi...
WILL ROGERS Everybody is ignorant only on different subjects.
WILL ROGERS Lord, the money we do spend on Government and its not one bit better than the government we got for ...
WILL ROGERS There is no credit to being a comedian, when you have the whole Government working for you. All you ...
WILL ROGERS We can make this thing into a Party, instead of a Memory.
WILL ROGERS Youve got to be an optimist to be a Democrat, and youve got to be a humorist to stay one.
WILL ROGERS I am not a member of any organized partyI am a Democrat.
WILL ROGERS And kid Congress and the Senate, dont scold em. They are just children thats never grown up. They do...
WILL ROGERS I originated a remark many years ago that I think has been copied more than any little thing that Iv...
WILL ROGERS I never met a man I didn't like.
WILL ROGERS When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds
WILL ROGERS Historically, there has been a bull market in commodities every 20 or 30 years.
JIM ROGERS While I was making my solo films, RKO was busily trying to get me and Fred Astaire back together. Th...
GINGER ROGERS Washington is like playing the Super Bowl, only there are no timeouts, no potty breaks, and the aren...
DESIREE ROGERS I'm a business person at heart.
DESIREE ROGERS We've become accustomed to let officials handle everything.
AL ROGERS Our young black men are falling victim to some anti-social behavior. Our kids are going to find acce...
AL ROGERS It was a blow to me. My job is to make sure the building is safe.
AL ROGERS In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beaut...
AL ROGERS I'm happy to be here. I enjoy my job so far and I'm glad to work in the town I grew up in.
ALAN ROGERS He is, in our view, reformed.
ALAN ROGERS They just need to do something to make it look nicer.
ALAN ROGERS It's a hard transition. You have to really want to be a part of a new culture.
ALAN ROGERS They may think that all military officers are George Patton, but what about Colin Powell? We're real...
ALAN ROGERS The farm women are extremely well organized and are bound to be heard from.
EDITH ROGERS I cannot doubt that women will line up, like the men elected, with the groups whose political thinki...
EDITH ROGERS But do not understand me as saying, or for one moment suggesting, that women legislators should conf...
EDITH ROGERS Lobbyists have more offices in Washington than the President. You see, the President only tells Cong...
WILL ROGERS The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse ...
WILL ROGERS Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.
WILL ROGERS You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people.
WILL ROGERS It's great to be great, but it's greater to be human.
WILL ROGERS I have always said that a conference was held for one reason only, to give everybody chance to get s...
WILL ROGERS To know her was to love her.
SAMUEL ROGERS The Good are better made by Ill, As odours crushed are sweeter still.
SAMUEL ROGERS Haste is slow. [Lat., Festinatio tarda est.]
SAMUEL ROGERS Timid dogs more eagerly bark than bite.
SAMUEL ROGERS Nothing is so secure in its position as not to be in danger from the attack even of the weak.
SAMUEL ROGERS Diplomats are just as essential in starting a war as soldiers are in finishing it.
WILL ROGERS Do anything in this world but monkey with somebody eles's religion. What reasoning of conceit makes ...
WILL ROGERS Fanatical religion driven to a certain point is almost as bad as none at all, but not quite.
WILL ROGERS It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.
WILL ROGERS Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.
WILL ROGERS Come to Jesus. Come to Jesus.
ADRIAN ROGERS The city has come together for strength and to rally -- that is a good thing,
ADRIAN ROGERS Writing is one of the ambitions I have,
ADRIAN ROGERS The idea is to minister to pastors and share with them what God has taught me over 50 years of minis...
ADRIAN ROGERS I have known him for years,
ADRIAN ROGERS In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You bein...
WILL ROGERS Believe in something for another world, but don't be too set on what it is, and then you won't start...
WILL ROGERS The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every ...
WILL ROGERS I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
WILL ROGERS I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.
WILL ROGERS No party is as bad as its leaders.
WILL ROGERS Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.
WILL ROGERS The more you read and observe about this politics thing, the more you've got to admit that each part...
WILL ROGERS The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.
WILL ROGERS This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried...
WILL ROGERS The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long ...
WILL ROGERS If you ever injected truth into politics, you would have no politics.
WILL ROGERS Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and their politicians as jokes.
WILL ROGERS It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was s...
WILL ROGERS With the price of life these days, you've got to get everything for free you can.
CARL ROGERS The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that mu...
CARL ROGERS The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.
CARL ROGERS When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.
CARL ROGERS In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this p...
CARL ROGERS In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, wi...
CARL ROGERS All I know is what I read in the papers.
WILL ROGERS The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the ...
WILL ROGERS America is a great country, but you can't live in it for nothing.
WILL ROGERS Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.
JAMES ROGERS The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best o...
WILL ROGERS Live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
WILL ROGERS About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an i...
WILL ROGERS America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.
WILL ROGERS Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House an...
WILL ROGERS There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you
WILL ROGERS There is no argument in the world that carries the hatred that a relioious belief does. The more lea...
WILL ROGERS A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people
WILL ROGERS The relationship which I have found helpful is characterized by a sort of transparency on my part, i...
CARL ROGERS If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of ...
CARL ROGERS The only person who cannot be helped is that person who blames others.
CARL ROGERS The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn - and change
CARL ROGERS In my early professionals years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this ...
CARL ROGERS I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion ...
CARL ROGERS The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.
CARL ROGERS There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
WILL ROGERS There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get off the thing that he was educated in.
WILL ROGERS There is nothing as stupid as an educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
WILL ROGERS The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
CARL ROGERS If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.
WILL ROGERS