Fred Rogers
Fred Rogers
Fred McFeely Rogerswas an American television personality, puppeteer, educator, Presbyterian minister, composer, songwriter, author, and activist. Rogers was most famous for creating, hosting, and composing the theme music for the educational preschool television series Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, which featured his kind-hearted, gentle, soft-spoken personality and directness to his audiences...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCelebrity
Date of Birth20 March 1928
CountryUnited States of America
What makes the difference between wishing and realizing our wishes? Lots of things, and it may take months or years for wish to come true, but it's far more likely to happen when you care so much about a wish that you'll do all you can to make it happen.
It's the things we play with and the people who help us play that make a great difference in our lives.
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.
It's our insides that make us who we are, that allow us to dream and wonder and feel for others. That's what's essential. That's what will always make the biggest difference in our world.
Vermont is a small state which makes an enormous difference.
When we treat children's play as seriously as it deserves, we are helping them feel the joy that's to be found in the creative spirit. It's the things we play with and the people who help us play that make a great difference in our lives.
Whether we're a preschooler or a young teen, a graduating college senior or a retired person, we human beings all want to know that we're acceptable, that our being alive somehow makes a difference in the lives of others.
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.
Our world hangs like a magnificent jewel in the vastness of space. Every one of us is a part of that jewel. A facet of that jewel. And in the perspective of infinity, our differences are infinitesimal.
When I saw the toy piano on one of the pages, that was it!
I believe that appreciation is a holy thing--that when we look for what's best in a person we happen to be with at the moment, we're doing what God does all the time. So in loving and appreciating our neighbor, we're participating in something sacred.
I thought there was some way of using this fabulous instrument to be of nurture to those who would watch and listen,
He was an enormous talent, and for him to have been able to offer that to children through the neighborhood all through these years was a great gift,
Often when you think you're at the end of something, you're at the beginning of something else.