Keeshan Quotes

#1. 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

#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. Our problem isn't that we're individualists. It's that our individualism is static rather than dynamic. We value what we think rather than what we do. We forget that we haven't done, or been, what we thought; that the first function of life is action, just as the first property of things is motion.

Fernando Pessoa

#4. Many of the earth's habitats, animals, plants, insects and even micro-organisms that we know to be rare may not be known at all by future generations. We have the capability and the responsibility to act; we must do so before it is too late.

Dalai Lama

#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.

Bob Keeshan

#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. I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.

Henry David Thoreau

#9. 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

#10. Then she was gone, taking all the air and light in the cavern with her.

Veronica Rossi

#11. You planted a bug on me?"
"Yes."
"And you don't think that was wrong?"
"I don't care."
Prophet blinked. "Fuck. That's something I'd say.

S.E. Jakes

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

Bob Keeshan

#13. I was a very strange child.

Alessia Cara

#14. I like movies that are about real people in real time with real problems.

Josh Radnor

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

Bob Keeshan

#16. We need people who can actually do things. We have too many bosses and too few workers.

Andy Rooney

#17. I will always hold you, I will always love you and I will always be right here.

Katie McGarry

#18. In life there are two things which are dependable. The pleasures of the flesh and the pleasures of literature.

Sei Shonagon

#19. Surprise is the warrior's greatest weapon

Erin Hunter

#20. Sometimes letting someone go is the ultimate act of love.

Cassia Leo

#21. The best teacher is an entertainer.

Bob Keeshan

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. What I wanted and what I visualized while composing has not always been realized.

Gustav Mahler

#25. I mean, I sing. But I don't think I'm a good enough singer to do any kind of musical.

Christina Ricci

#26. It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners.

Oscar Wilde

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

Bob Keeshan

#28. 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