Fulghum Robert quotes

" If you want an interesting party sometime, combine cocktails and a fresh box of crayons for everyone. " # Politicians and Politics

" Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts... " # Words # Heart # Love

" To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence hollering, What's it for? " # Humankind # Freedom # Hollywood

" I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test. " # Money # Love # Life and Living

" I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death. " # Life and Living # Love # Laughter

" Live a balanced life — learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some. " # Life and Living # Dance and Dancing # Love

" One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem. If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you've got a problem. Everything else is an inconvenience. Life is inconvenient. Life is lumpy. A lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat and a lump in the breast are not the same kind of lump. One needs to learn the difference. " # Nations # Life and Living # Death and Dying

" Take any one of those items and extrapolate it into sophisticated adult terms and apply it to your family life or your work or your government or your world and it holds true and clear and firm. Think what a better world it would be if we all — the whole world — had cookies and milk about three o’clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap. Or if all governments had as a basic policy to always put things back where they found them and to clean up their own mess. And it is still true, no matter how old you are — when you go out into the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together. " # Excellence # Life and Living # Family

" A six-year-old will not understand that “By and large it has been demonstrated that violence is counterproductive to the constructive interaction of persons and societies.” True. But a child can better understand that the rule out in the world and in the school is the same: Don’t hit people. Bad things happen. The child must understand this rule is connected to the first rule: People won’t share or play fair if you hit them. " # Acting and Actors # Love # Children

" Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart. " # Memory # Heart # Mind