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
For children, play is exceedingly seriously & important
Silence is so powerful, so important. There is so much to be learned from it.
It's important to know when we need to stop, reflect, and receive. In our competitive world, that might be called a waste of time.
I hope that you're learning how important you are, how important each person you see can be. Discovering each one's specialty is the most important learning.
One of the most important things a person can learn to do is to make something out of whatever he or she happens to have at the moment.
I believe it's a fact of life that what we have is less important than what we make out of what we have.
When our children see us expressing our emotions, they can learn that their own feelings are natural and permissible, can be expressed, and can be talked about. That's an important thing for our children to learn.
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,
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.
Often when you think you're at the end of something, you're at the beginning of something else.
Sometimes people are good, and they do just what they should. But the very same people who are good sometimes are the very same people who are bad sometimes. It's funny but it's true. Its the same isn't it, for me and . . .