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Robert Fulghum quotes

American Author June 4, 1937

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The leaves let go, the seeds let go, and I must let go sometimes, too, and cast my lot with another of nature’s imperfect but tenacious survivors. Robert Fulghum
I do not want to know what you will hope for. I want to know what you will work for. I do not want your sympathy for the needs of humanity. I want your muscle. As the wagon driver said when they came to a long, hard hill: ‘Them that’s going on with us, get out and push. Them that ain’t, get out of the way’. Robert Fulghum
Robert Fulghum quote: "Play fair. Don't hit people. Say you're sorry when you hurt..."
Play fair. Don't hit people. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody. Robert Fulghum
As one old gentleman put it, " Son, I don't care if you're stark nekkid and wear a bone in your nose. If you kin fiddle, you're all right with me. It's the music we make that counts. Robert Fulghum
It's just this: that there are places we all come from-deep-rooty-common places- that makes us who we are. And we disdain them or treat them lightly at our peril. We turn our backs on them at the risk of self-contempt. There is a sense in which we need to go home again-and can go home again. Not to recover home, no. But to sanctify memory. Robert Fulghum
If you tell people you talk to God, they'll think you're religious, but if you say God talks to you, it's ten to one they'll think you're crazy. Robert Fulghum
I and you-We are infinate, rich, large, contradictory, living, breathing miracles-free human beings, children of God and the everlasting universe. That's what we do. Robert Fulghum
The gift was not large as money goes, and my need was not great, but the spirit of the gift is beyond price and leaves me blessed and in debt. Robert Fulghum
My goal now is to dance all the dances as long as I can, and then to sit down contented after the last elegant tango some sweet night and pass on because there wasn't another dance left in me. Robert Fulghum
If you do not join the dancing you will feel foolish. So why not dance? And i will tell you a secret: If you do not join the dance, we will know you are a fool. But if you dance, we will think well of you for trying. if you dance badly to begin and we laugh, what is the sin in that? We will begin there. Robert Fulghum
Robert Fulghum quote: "The winding down of summer puts me in a heavy philosophical mood."
The winding down of summer puts me in a heavy philosophical mood. Robert Fulghum
If the dream is held close to the heart, and imagination is applied to what there is close at hand. Everything is still possible. Robert Fulghum
Robert Fulghum quote: "To ponder is not to brood or grieve or even meditate. It is..."
To ponder is not to brood or grieve or even meditate. It is to wonder at a deep level. Robert Fulghum
Robert Fulghum quote: "Remember, most of us got something for nothing the first time..."
Remember, most of us got something for nothing the first time just by showing up here at birth. Now we have to qualify. Robert Fulghum
It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have a bake-sale to buy a bomber. Robert Fulghum

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