Quotes About Mister Rogers

#1. My favorite 'Mister Rogers' episodes were always the ones where Mr. Rogers would go into the community.

Felicia Day

#2. Illinois preschoolers were temporarily saved from the debilitating effects of cereal and milk.

Barack Obama

#3. We were wearing diapers at the same time. We didn't grow up together, however. I was in the crib, and she was playing cribbage in the nursing home.

Jarod Kintz

#4. Weakness drives us to set goals, to try harder, to put forth more effort, to dream and wish and hope, to reach out further and down deeper, to pray earnestly, to cry mightily, to understand and empathize with valid sincerity. In truth, weakness is a catalyst for greater strength.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#5. A contemplative should pay equal attention to concentration, energetic effort and equanimity, and not exclusively to one of these factors only.

Gautama Buddha

#6. When the bell tolls three times, it will announce that I have been killed. If I am killed by common men, you and your children will rule Russia for centuries to come; if I am killed by one of your stock, you and your family will be killed by the Russian people! Pray Tsar of Russia. Pray.

Grigori Rasputin

#7. It's been my dream to be in a Western, and to be able to wear the clothes, have a big gun, wear a big hat, have a big horse, and be a take-no-prisoners lady in the Civil War era.

Lauren Ambrose

#8. We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It's easy to say "It's not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem." Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes.

Fred Rogers

#9. Properly speaking, a woman does not need mind either, for if she has brains she will have too high an opinion of herself, and take all sorts of ideas into her head.

Anton Chekhov

#10. It's the people we love the most who can make us feel the gladdest ... and the maddest! Love and anger are such a puzzle!

Fred Rogers

#11. Things that would shock us years ago are like nothing now.

Lenny Kravitz

#12. I had the idea in my twenties that a writer could immediately become the late Henry James. Henry James himself had to mature. Even Saul Bellow did.

Cynthia Ozick

#13. It's difficult for me to work with women, because I find that direct references are made back to me too fast. Working with men, it gives it a little distance.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

#14. I may have a feather duster down my pants.

Johnny Depp

#15. The whole scene was indecent, mad. It smacked of murder and assassination.

Charles Bukowski