Fred Rogers Quotes

I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending.

- Fred Rogers

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.

- Fred Rogers

I think of discipline as the continual everyday process of helping a child learn self-discipline.

- Fred Rogers

Parents are like shuttles on a loom. They join the threads of the past with threads of the future and leave their own bright patterns as they go.

- Fred Rogers

Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.

- Fred Rogers

You know, you don't have to look like everybody else to be acceptable and to feel acceptable.

- 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 helpers. You will always find people who are helping.'

- Fred Rogers

How sad it is that we give up on people who are just like us.

- Fred Rogers