Robert Fulghum Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

  Robert Fulghum

  Marriage, Mother, Children

  "Reflections for Tending the Sacred Garden". Book by Bonita Jean Zimmer (p. 182), April 2003.

• I know what I really want for Christmas. I want my childhood back. Nobody is going to give me that. I might give at least the memory of it to myself if I try. I know it doesn't make sense, but since when is Christmas about sense, anyway? It is about a child, of long ago and far away, and it is about the child of now. In you and me. Waiting behind the door of or hearts for something wonderful to happen. A child who is impractical, unrealistic, simpleminded and terribly vulnerable to joy.

  Robert Fulghum

  Christmas, Children, Memories

• I love this child. Red-haired - patient and gentle like her mother - fey and funny like her father. When she giggles I can hear him when he and I were young. I am part of this child. It may be only because we share genes and that therefore smell familiar to each other.... It may be that a part of me lives in her in some important way.... But for now, it's jelly beans and 'Old MacDonald' that unite us.

  Robert Fulghum

  Mother, Children, Father

• What I notice is that every adult or child I give a new set of Crayolas to goes a little funny. The kids smile, get a glazed look on their faces, pour the crayons out, and just look at them for a while....The adults always get the most wonderful kind of sheepish smile on their faces--a mixture of delight and nostalgia and silliness. And they immediately start telling you about all their experiences with Crayolas.

  Robert Fulghum

  Children, Kids, Giving

• I and you-We are infinate, rich, large, contradictory, living, breathing miracles-free human beings, children of God and the everlasting universe. That's what we do.

  Robert Fulghum

  Children, Breathing, Miracle

  Robert Fulghum (2010). “It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It”, p.68, Ivy Books

• The kindergarten children are confident in spirit, infinite in resources, and eager to learn. Everything is still possible.

  Robert Fulghum

  Children, Spirit, Kindergarten

  Robert Fulghum (2010). “Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door”, p.228, Ivy Books

• Children are sent to school to be civilized, to learn to be part of the social enterprise.

  Robert Fulghum

  Children, School, Social

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