Robert Fulghum Quotes

All I really need to know... I learned in kindergarten.

Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there at the sandpile at Sunday School.

I think when I was two years old in the sandbox. I think I formulated my basic philosophy there, and I haven't really had to alter it very much ever since.

The greatest lessons to be learned about life, love, purpose, meaning, and priority are to be learned from children.

The greatest lessons in life, if we would but stoop and humble ourselves, we would learn not from the grown-up learned men, but from the so-called ignorant children.

I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.

Life isn't so complicated for children. They have more time to think about the really important things. That's why I occasionally moralise in my children's books in a way I wouldn't dare when writing for adults.

A child speaks more sense than an adult half of the time.

Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

I grew up in Indiana. I'm a late bloomer, very naive.

Kids will keep it real. If I've ever had in my life a great anchor, it's them. They get in your head, 'don't get too famous.' If you think you're really famous and think you're really hip, go hang out with your kids for an afternoon. That's about as earthbound as it's going to get.

Sometimes the simplest things are the most profound.

Early childhood education packs a real wallop in terms of the return on the investment.

Ever since I managed with guaranteed contracts and all the media, you know, you can get distracted by fame and fortune. Your values can get distorted. And the way you break through is, you just keep it personal and keep it simple and basic.

There is a fundamental question we all have to face. How are we to live our lives; by what principles and moral values will we be guided and inspired?

I believe in the simple things in life; everything derives from the beginning. You take things very simplistically and try to be the best person you can be.

I suppose you always look back at how easier things were being young. There's always a shame that you're not as naive as you were.

As I look back, I have to say growing up was fun, not a problem at all.

I took for the first time, I mean Rob is 42, for the first time I took him to the supermarket. He is really like a 15-year-old boy! He's just frozen in Take That time. He was like 'This is amazing they have everything!' I was like 'that's what you do at a supermarket.' It was a revelation for him.

I wasn't in any hurry to grow up and become this worldly person.

We learn many things from children, always.

Years and years ago, when I was a boy, when there were wolves in Wales, and birds the color of red-flannel petticoats whisked past the harp-shaped hills, when we sang and wallowed all night and day in caves that smelt like Sunday afternoons in damp front farmhouse parlors, and we chased, with the jawbones of deacons, the English and the bears, before the motor car, before the wheel, before the duchess-faced horse, when we rode the daft and happy hills bareback, it snowed and it snowed.

The child must teach the man.

A few strong instincts and a few plain rules.

The lessons I learned in Sunday School have kept me on track