Fred Rogers Quotes

I am convinced that most people do not grow up...We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I think what we do is mostly grow old. We carry accumulation of years in our bodies, and on our faces, but generally our real selves, the children inside, are innocent and shy as magnolias.

There is often a good deal of the child left in people who have had to grow up too soon.

Can the child within my heart rise above Can I sail through the changing ocean tides Can I handle the seasons of my life Well, I've been afraid of changing 'Cause I've built my life around you But time makes you get bolder Even children get older And I'm getting older too

I was a little ham and was a very open kid, probably because I was around adults all the time. That also forced me to grow up fast, and I learned at an early age about how people lie and deceive each other.

Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.

There is no child left within me, none whatsoever.

Maybe I didn't have the childhood people think you should have, but I still went through the ages; I was still a child.

People say, 'Weren't you deprived of your childhood?' No way. I would not take anything back at all. Everything about it was great. I got to go places, meet people, play baseball against older kids and better competition. I had a great time.

Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else.

My family used to call me an oversized kid and I think that's pretty accurate in some ways.

I think children of divorced parents do grow up quicker. You just do.

When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.

I never fully got to experience my childhood. I've spent a lot of time having to sort of grow myself up in many ways and also to sort of slow myself down and allow myself to live at the pace that I am.

The things that have happened for me, to me, have helped me grow up. Especially the passing of my father. That was something that took me to another level of growing and maturing. That's whan I started to be more of a man.

It's interesting how things you hear as a kid take on a whole new meaning when you are an adult.

One thing I can say is that as I've gotten older, I've gotten younger. I've grown up but I've kind of immatured (but matured!) but I've allowed myself to be a kid. When I was a kid, I was so much of a professional and carried myself that way. It was crazy.

I have never grown up, but I will never stop growing.

No adult can bear a child’s burden or grow up in his stead.

Remember, the goal is not to raise great kids; it's to raise kids who become great adults.

When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

I don't grow up. In me is the small child of my early days.

We may outgrow the things of children, without acquiring sense and relish for those which become a man.

A child embarrassed by his mother,” she said, “is just a child who hasn’t lived long enough.

It is only grown-ups who want children to be children; children themselves always want to be real people.

As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like.