Fred Rogers Quotes

You don't become a fully-formed human as a female, or even a male, until you're at least 30.

I think we are a product of all our experiences.

You are who you are at this moment because of everything that's ever happened to you, everything that you carried forward for yourself.

I think you are a product of the environment you surround yourself in, and everything you've experienced is a part of you and the fabric you are in.

In my 90-plus years, I have lived a multitude of lives.

No one is born fully-formed: it is through self-experience in the world that we become what we are.

We were not always 70, or rather our 70 is an accumulation of all the other ways we were. Our 5-year-old selves became our 10-year-old selves, and so on and on; and if we unpack our selves, the full album appears. Every moment is a part of the following moment, and we are all a continuum.

Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.

I have not an ounce of regret. Every link is so valuable in forming the chain that is my life. Who I am today is because of those links, and I wouldn't change any of them.

Its not age as much as the experiences I have had.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end.

I felt that with 'In A Perfect World' I was still kind of finding myself - not just as a musician, but also in love and in life.

Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Everything I have experienced in my life helps form who I am today, and I would not change or forget any of it.

I didn't get on TV until I was 30, which is really fortunate because you are who you are at that point.

The old man, of whom we know how he has become what he is, is more of an individual than the young man; for it is only in the course of an eventful life that men are differentiated into full individuality.

It has been an interesting road, but I wouldn't trade any of it for the world, because I feel like all of those instances in my life I felt molded me and strengthened me and made me who I am.

Almost all of your life is lived by the seat of your pants, one unexpected event crashing into another, with no pattern or reason, and then you finally reach a point, around my age, where you spend more time than ever looking back. Why did this happen? Look where that led? You see the shape of things.

Everyone is the sum total of past experiences. A character doesn't just spring to life at age thirty.

Because I'm not the same today as I was in '58, or '59 or even '71.

Many of the most important and life-changing moments of my life occurred when I was a young man. The lessons I learned then formed my character and shaped my destiny.

Voila, we're all molded by our personal paths, which forge our sensibilities.

The feelings we all have as 50-year-olds are different than the feelings we all have as 30-year-olds. That informs everything we do.