Keeshan Bob Quotes

#1. It all sounds almost silly, but the fact is that the only way to change a corporate culture is to just change it.

Gordon Bethune

#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. If everyone who's worth a damn just leaves as soon as possible, then what's left?

Trae Crowder

#4. 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.

Bob Keeshan

#5. Most of us live in a world that has ceased to exist.

Mason Cooley

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

Bob Keeshan

#7. 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.

Bob Keeshan

#8. 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.

Bob Keeshan

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

Bob Keeshan

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

Bob Keeshan

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

Bob Keeshan

#12. He was beautiful, like looking at a favorite piece of artwork. Not something one can own, but something in a faraway museum, where she would have to go halfway around the world, push through crowds on people, just to catch a glimpse of his unreal splendor.

Caroline Hanson

#13. The best teacher is an entertainer.

Bob Keeshan

#14. 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.

Bob Keeshan

#15. Instead he fanned the fire. When the blaze was all acrackle, he peeled off his stiff gloves to warm his hands, and sighed, wondering if ever a kiss had felt as good. The warmth spread through his fingers like melting butter.

George R R Martin

#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.

Bob Keeshan

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

Bob Keeshan

#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