Mr Rogers Mother Quotes

#1. Reversing deforestation is complicated; planting a tree is simple.

Martin O'Malley

#2. 'Be passionate about your work and your life' was instilled in me by my mother Dada, who was a potter. She also introduced me to the arts and encouraged me to embrace the new.

Richard Rogers

#3. Engineering is treated with disdain, on the whole. It's considered to be rather boring and irrelevant, yet neither of those is true.

James Dyson

#4. I traveled with my mother, Lela, and there was never enough money. I always had to roll down my silk stockings and carry a doll when we bought train tickets so I could go half-fare. If we had $3, we always figured how to tip for the trunks and still eat.

Ginger Rogers

#5. We are all interconnected and interdependent, and because of this, we are all only as rich as we enrich those around us. I

Ben Hewitt

#6. Any man in the company of two woman is outnumbered four to one however amiable they may be. By definition."
'So when its just you and me I outnumber you two to one, is that right?'
"Affirmative.

Kingsley Amis

#7. I remember my mother taking me to see the Picasso show in the 1940s, and I was impressed by the life and vibrancy of it all. It was a bit too avant-garde for most Londoners at the time, but since then, the city has become a centre for modern culture.

Richard Rogers

#8. My mother told me I was dancing before I was born. She could feel my toes tapping wildly inside her for months.

Ginger Rogers

#9. My mother was a journalist, so writing is not unnatural to me.

Ginger Rogers

#10. No major war or act of mass killing in the twentieth century began without the aggressors or perpetrators first claiming innocence and victimhood.

Timothy Snyder

#11. My own mother died when I was 10 years old. My folks have told me that what little humor I have comes from her. I can't remember her humor, but I can remember her love and understanding of me.

Will Rogers

#12. I can not think of any circumstances in which advertising would not be an evil.

Arnold J. Toynbee

#13. Measure yourself by your best moments, not by your worst. We are too prone to judge ourselves by our moments of despondency and depression.

Robert Johnson

#14. I begin indeed to fear that I have undertaken an impossibility, undertaken to tell what I cannot tell because no speech at my command will fit the forms in my mind.

George MacDonald

#15. I watched their reactions and emotions, especially to understand what was what I was doing wrong. But then I realized that if I could see these people and take note of everything I saw, I could write a good song.

Taylor Swift

#16. My mother was very family-oriented. And I do love being with my children.

Richard Rogers

#17. There was Pauline de Rothschild, who I thought was very fabulous, and Millicent Rogers, the Standard Oil heiress, very chic, very clever, very original. I admired both those women very much. And I had a great example with my mother, who was extremely chic.

Iris Apfel

#18. The sword is very handsome. I am too old and infirm, as you see, to ever use a sword again, but I am glad that my old mother state has not entirely forgotten me.

George Rogers Clark

#19. No, I do not want to sacrifice four days for two games. My time is too valuable to do that.

Anatoly Karpov

#20. Suddenly I blurted out. I love you more than everything in the entire galaxy combined into one potent, delicious piece of gum!

The Harvard Lampoon

#21. Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons.

Amos Bronson Alcott

#22. And this was what bothered him about owning a VCR. If that cowboy was yours for the taking - yours at the flip of a switch - what was to stop you from abandoning human contact altogether? He

Armistead Maupin

#23. Mothers are the only race of people that speak the same tongue. A mother in Manchuria could converse with a mother in Nebraska and never miss a word.

Will Rogers

#24. The hour arrives, the moment wish'd and fear'd,
The child is born by many a pang endear'd
And now the mother's ear has caught his cry;
O grant the cherub to her asking eye!
He comes
she clasps him. To her bosom press'd
He drinks the balm of life, and drops to rest.

Samuel Rogers

#25. I don't want to eat anything that has a mother

Fred Rogers

#26. My friendship with Mitzi was like the friendship that many children have with their pets. My mother and father thought it was "good for me" to have a dog for a companion. Well it was good for me, but it was only many years after she died that I began to understand how good it was, and why.

Fred Rogers

#27. Your mothers get mighty shocked at you girls nowadays, but in her day, her mother was just on the verge of sending her to reform school.

Will Rogers

#28. My father was one-eighth Cherokee indian and my mother was quarter-blood Cherokee. I never got far enough in arithmetic to figure out how much injun that made me, but there's nothing of which I am more proud than my Cherokee blood.

Will Rogers

#29. I doubt if a charging elephant, or a rhino, is as determined or hard to check as a socially ambitious mother.

Will Rogers

#30. The emotions attached to them were like sand castles in the tide, slowly washing out to sea.

Nicholas Sparks

#31. I find so much inspiration and healing from Mother Earth. Through my connection with Nature my soul is nurtured.

Jodi Sky Rogers

#32. When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.

Fred Rogers