Robert Fulghum
Robert Fulghum
Robert Lee Fulghumis an American author and Unitarian Universalist minister...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth4 June 1937
CountryUnited States of America
Robert Fulghum quotes about
best hands hold stick together
When you go out into the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together
american-author gains loses man profit
What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?
bananas existence anything-can-happen
Anything can happen. The great banana peel of existence is always on the floor somewhere.
names together dull
We could learn a lot from crayons; some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others bright, some have weird names, but they all have learned to live together in the same box.
summer philosophical mood
The winding down of summer puts me in a heavy philosophical mood.
christmas children memories
I know what I really want for Christmas. I want my childhood back. Nobody is going to give me that. I might give at least the memory of it to myself if I try. I know it doesn't make sense, but since when is Christmas about sense, anyway? It is about a child, of long ago and far away, and it is about the child of now. In you and me. Waiting behind the door of or hearts for something wonderful to happen. A child who is impractical, unrealistic, simpleminded and terribly vulnerable to joy.
time years world
I'd like to speak a foreign language well enough to get the jokes. I'd like to talk with Socrates, and watch Michelangelo sculpt David. I'd like to see the world as it was a million years ago and a million years hence.
successful intangible-quality impact
Desire is the intangible quality that has more impact on success than talent, education, or IQ. You can't see desire, but you can feel its presence, and see its results in the lives of successful people.
explanation knows
You can't always explain everything you do to everybody, you know.
roller-coaster coasters knows
Once you know where the roller coaster is going, are you in for the ride?
empowering fairy-tale tales
To insist on one's place in the scheme of things and to live up to that place.To empower others in their reaching for some place in the scheme of things.To do these things is to make fairy tales come true.
names people costumes
All of these are names given me by other people, but not names I would have given myself. My name is not mine, it's theirs. It's a series of costumes put on my life by other people.
wonder miraculous cease
But since everything and anything are always possible, the miraculous is always nearby, and wonders shall never, ever cease.
showing-up firsts remember
Remember, most of us got something for nothing the first time just by showing up here at birth. Now we have to qualify.