Bob Keeshan Quotes

#1. One of the big secrets of finding time is not to watch television.

Bob Keeshan

#2. Parents are the ultimate role models for children. Every word, movement and action has an effect. No other person or outside force has a greater influence on a child than the parent.

Bob Keeshan

#3. I stare back at her, confident in my Miranda-protected right to shut the fuck up.

Ainsley Booth

#4. Patience is not learned in safety.

Pema Chodron

#5. A child needs to be listened to and talked to at 3 and 4 and 5 years of age. Parents should not wait for the sophisticated conversation of a teenager.

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#6. Don't look for comfortable plays. Look for strong plays. Have balls.

R. Dobias

#7. Let me introduce myself. My name is, uh, Kangaroo ... Kangaroo - Captain Kangaroo ... I'm the keeper here of the Treasure House.

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#8. The only logical thing I can think of is that I knew there were such things as artists, and I knew there were none where I lived. So I knew that to be an artist you had to be somewhere else. And I very much wanted to be somewhere else.

Jasper Johns

#9. It requires more strength to be gentle, so it's the everyday encounters of life that I think we've prepared children for and prepared them to be good to other people and to consider other people.

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#10. Children don't drop out of high school when they are 16, they do so in the first grade and wait 10 years to make it official.

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#11. I like playing all sorts of ages and genders.

Chris Lilley

#12. Your past is something you cannot change. You can't live it; it's dead.

Alexandra Stoddard

#13. The children should never be excluded from what I am doing and should never have the feeling of being part of an audience.

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#14. The best teacher is an entertainer.

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#15. I enjoy meeting not only contemporary children, but yesterday's children as well. It's nice to talk about the experiences we shared, they tell me, 'You were a good friend.' That's the warmest part.

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#16. Just as actors are afraid of child audiences because they're so honest, I would be scared stiff of going before the big folks.

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#17. Play is the work of children. It's very serious stuff.

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#18. It is my contention that most people are not mugged every day, that most people in this world do not encounter violence every day. I think we prepare people for violence, and I think just as importantly we prepare people for the definition of being gentle.

Bob Keeshan

#19. Generosity has built America. When we fail to invest in children, we have to pay the cost.

Bob Keeshan