Top 80 Quotes About Sesame
#1. I was a TV junkie as a kid. I am the Sesame Street generation.
Darren Aronofsky
#2. There is nothing that 'Sesame Street' can't teach you, if you let it.
Sarah Churchwell
#3. Sustainable scallops with a mirepoix of carrots, celeriac, shallots, and bell peppers and a sesame oil dressing. The recommended accompanying beverage is pinot gris.
Graeme Simsion
#4. Though I wondered what she ever made of my professed love for and intentions to marry Big Bird, the hottie of Sesame Street.
Wendy Delsol
#5. After 'Sesame Street,' it's a hyper-familiar world to me and I have this childlike ability to ignore the fact that I'm talking to scraps of cloth. Every country I go to, I see posters promoting the film in different languages. 'Los Muppets' - I love that!
Feist
#6. I grew up being educated by Sesame Street and gained a sense of humor from The Muppet Show. I'd give my right foot to be able to do a scene or two with the Muppets.
Neil Patrick Harris
#7. 'Sesame Street' was a pioneering educational T.V. show, intended to help underprivileged children. But even those of us middle-class kids spoilt for pedagogical choice couldn't get enough of it.
Sarah Churchwell
#8. When I did '1,2,3,4' on 'Sesame Street' they'd rewritten the song and made it about counting. At first, I balked. I was like, 'Counting to four? That's where we're going with this?' Then they sent me appearances by other people like James Blunt doing 'You're Beautiful' as 'My Triangle.'
Feist
#9. What I remember most about working on 'Sesame Street' is having fun in the green room with the other kids while waiting for my time to go on camera to work with the puppets.
Tyler James Williams
#10. I was actually born in New York. We lived there until I was three so I grew up watching Sesame Street and hearing the accent. You are a sponge at that age, soaking everything up.
Saoirse Ronan
#11. You'll tell me a story and I'll spare you ? You think I don't see what you're doing ? I've read Arabian Nights."
"Call me Scheherazade, baby ! Actually, she's one tricksy bitch. Who, by the way, still owes me twenty gold pieces and a pound of sesame.
Kresley Cole
#12. First Lady Michelle Obama appears on 'Sesame Street' to celebrate the show's 40th anniversary. It's going to be a big episode. Yes, sources say the episode gets a little tense when Ernie and Bert ask the first lady why her husband's dragging his feet on gay marriage.
Conan O'Brien
#13. Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.
William Osler
#14. It was a nephilim."
"A nephi-what?" asked Hugh, startled.
"Isn't that a character on Sesame Street?" Peter spoke up for the first time.
Richelle Mead
#15. I made the transition to directing documentaries with the great help of my Co-Director on The World According to Sesame Street, Linda Hawkins Costigan. She was a gracious teacher, and a wonderful collaborator.
Linda Goldstein Knowlton
#16. My siblings and I, we were raised on TV and films. Not a day went by that we weren't watching one of three movies - 'Caddyshack,' 'Animal House,' 'Beverly Hills Cop' - on rotation. Our comedy, our personalities were set watching 'Sesame Street': these really sort of wacky, Jim Henson-y characters.
Teddy Sears
#17. Getting a degree, being on Sesame Street ... those were like real accomplishments to me.
Chaka Khan
#18. Sesame Street ... I think they were all high. With Big Bird, they had to be high.
Pauly Shore
#19. Calcium Milligrams (per 100-gram serving) Butter 20 Whole milk 118 Chickpeas 150 Collard greens 203 Parsley 203 Soybeans 226 Almonds 234 Sesame seeds 1,160 Hijiki sea vegetable 1,400
Alicia Silverstone
#20. It's unnecessarily grandiose to use an Open Sesame on the doors, but I do it anyway because I know everyone will be in the dining hall, and I may as well make an entrance.
Rainbow Rowell
#21. If my life was a song it would be, 'It ain't that easy being green' from Sesame Street.
Jacob Lusk
#22. The parrot holds its food for prim consumption as daintily as any debutante, [with] a predilection for pot roast, hashed-brown potatoes, duck skin, butter, hoisin sauce, sesame seed oil, bananas and human thumb.
Alexander Theroux
#23. I thought it was quintessentially American - very hip, very late-'60s. I was absolutely stunned when a German production company asked me if I could do a 'Sesame Street' in Germany. It was absolutely the happiest surprise.
Joan Ganz Cooney
#24. The coolest thing I've gotten to do in the past few years is guest star on Sesame Street.
Norah Jones
#25. This is Sesame Street. A place where people, birds, monsters all live in perfect harmony.
Phil Donahue
#26. In L.A., I get a meal delivery service called Diet Designs. I like a nice butter lettuce salad with some avocado, fresh grapefruit, shredded chicken breast and raw almond slices with a sesame vinaigrette dressing. I also love juicing and am kind of obsessed with it.
Fergie
#27. As if this whole thing isn't confusing enough, election officials announced this week that the alphabet on the ballot will begin with the letter R, then W, then Q. You know, even Sesame Street is laughing at California now.
Jay Leno
#28. I learned my ABCs, 1-2-3 from 'Sesame Street.'
Tyra Banks
#29. In South Africa, where HIV-positive children are often shunned, we have an HIV-positive Muppet to teach children to be friendly with children with HIV. But they use local actors. And it's not always a street. Sometimes it's 'Sesame Plaza,' or 'Sesame Tree.'
Joan Ganz Cooney
#30. I'm not a big chicken or meat eater, but sometimes I'll eat it if it's locally raised. The family dinner will be stir-fry, or we'll roll our own sushi with brown rice, spinach, salmon, sesame oil, sesame seeds, and seaweed. The kids love it!
Alysia Reiner
#31. You're an investigator - can't nobody find stuff out like a woman. Y'all put the police to shame, make the little investigative tricks they show on CSI and Law & Order: SVU look like counting lessons on Sesame Street.
Steve Harvey
#32. Call me a sucker for a man who had a great ass who knows how to bake a macaroni casserole and can tolerate six hours of Sesame Street a day.
Seanan McGuire
#33. I wanted to go to Sesame Street! I remember distinctly running through my neighborhood, thinking I knew how to get to Sesame Street, and then finally finding myself among some scrub trees and realizing I don't know where to go from here. I had to just mope back home.
Trenton Lee Stewart
#34. It would be so much easier if there were a secret password, or handshake. Netherworld,
open sesame!
Yeah, that didn't work, either.
Rachel Vincent
#35. Intuition,, not intellect, is the 'open sesame' of yourself.
Albert Einstein
#36. How does a sesame seed stick to a bun? That's magical. There must be some sesame seed glue out there. Either that or they're adhesive on one side. Peel off the backing, place it on the bun.
Mitch Hedberg
#37. The person I enjoyed interviewing the most was Elmo from Sesame Street because he is so unpredictable and he is always eating my hair and my face.
Katie Couric
#38. In Australia, I grew up watching 'The Mickey Mouse Club,' my son grew up watching 'Sesame Street,' my grandson's growing up watching 'Dora The Explorer.' So we are sort of saturated with American culture from the day we're born, and to those of those who do have an ear for it, it's second nature.
Jacki Weaver
#39. With four kids, it's hard to watch anything other than 'Sesame Street.'
Neal McDonough
#40. I expect a zombie to show up on 'Sesame Street' soon, teaching kids to count.
George A. Romero
#41. Never been to Sesame Street but I flip a Big Bird.
And I know "stealers" and they not from Pittsburgh ...
Cam'ron
#42. In each of the separate sections Mother would put a different treat - sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, watermelon seeds, sesame cookies, and peanuts.
Katherine Paterson
#43. He shook his head. Just - beware of Mr. Chu. He makes Itex look like Sesame Street.
James Patterson
#44. I studied piano and viola and voice in high school and music composition in college. For many years before I became an author I was a singer songwriter, writing for Disney and Sesame Street. I believe in perfect rhymes - no cheating!
Sarah Weeks
#45. Why can't we ever fight cute, helpless monsters? Like the ones on Sesame Street?
Larry Correia
#46. It only takes 30 seconds to pluck my eyebrows, but it hurts. I have to tweeze 'em in the middle once a week. Otherwise, I look like Bert from 'Sesame Street.'
Freddie Prinze Jr.
#47. Personal matters have diverted attention away from the important work Sesame Street is doing, and I cannot allow it to go on any longer. I am deeply sorry to be leaving and am looking forward to resolving these personal matters privately.
Kevin Clash
#48. I wish I could tell you that the Children's Television Workshop and Sesame Street were thanks to my genius, but it really was a lucky break.
Joan Ganz Cooney
#49. On the video monitor, they saw Ted Fielding slap the polished sphere and shout, "Open! Open Sesame! Open up, you son of a bitch!"
The sphere did not respond.
Michael Crichton
#50. 'Sesame Street's' genius lies in finding gentle ways to talk about hard things - death, divorce, danger - in terms that children understand and accept.
Nancy Gibbs
#51. Do you know why they call me the Count? Because I love to count! Ah-hah-hah!
- The Count Sesame Street
Richard Bachman
#52. He stood before the door, feeling uncharacteristically nervous. Hi. Uh ... how are ya?
No, no.
Hello, Jack. I'm back.
Shit, that fuckin' rhymes. Sounds like fuckin' Sesame Street.
Hi there. Off with yer clothes.
Nothin' like gettin' right ta the point, huh?
Jane Seville
#53. Other than the 'Sesame Street' soundtrack, which I was obsessed with, the first artist I really felt I'd discovered on my own was Amy Winehouse. She was the first female artist I wanted to write like and sing like and be like.
Alessia Cara
#54. My first day of high school, I wore brown boys' corduroys that my mom had sewn Sesame Street elastic into - they were my coolest pants - and a lime green Patagonia fleece that my mom found at Goodwill. I loved fleece.
Cameron Russell
#55. I've gotten to hang out with Elmo, I'm the Fairy Shoeperson on 'Sesame Street'. So hopefully our kids will get to see and hear me as much as they're able.
Neil Patrick Harris
#56. Sesame Street succeeded because it learned how to make television sticky.
Malcolm Gladwell
#57. Today's 'Sesame Street' will NOT be brought to you by the number 34 or the letter D.
Russell Brand
#58. I wanted to have a global company, so I chose a global name. Alibaba is easy to spell, and people everywhere associate that with "Open, Sesame," the command that Ali Baba used to open doors to hidden treasures in One Thousand and One Nights.
Jack Ma
#59. Precious souls as young as three or four, raised on the misplaced multicultural priorities of Sesame Street," he claims, "are doomed before they even enter the godless morass of the public school system.
Chuck Palahniuk
#60. We were only allowed to watch Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers and 3-2-1 Contact!
Rachael Leigh Cook
#61. I always wanted to be a Muppet. So when 'Sesame Street' approached me to guest star, I thought: 'I'm going to be on this!' It's pretty incredible stuff.
James Blunt
#62. The benefits kids get from watching "Sesame Street" can be as powerful as the ones children get from preschool.
Julie Roginsky
#63. Love is the vital essence that pervades and permeates, from the center to the circumference, the graduating circles of all thought and action. Love is the talisman of human weal and woe
the open sesame to every soul.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#64. Most people don't hold a job for 45 years. They pass on or want to retire. I don't want to retire. My real goal is to do 50 years on 'Sesame Street,' and I only got 4-and-a-half years to go.
Caroll Spinney
#65. I understood that without English I would never get far, so my dream was to become a receptionist, and so I started to learn English from watching 'Sesame Street.'
Anchee Min
#66. I really learned the power of the tube on Sesame Street and how it can influence a very young mind.
Ruth Buzzi
#67. Atheists are suffering from bad PR. What if Sesame Street had an atheist character?
Dan Barker
#68. The word that identified what we did not possess was "money," . . . The other word was "votes," so that together "money votes" was "open sesame" to the deep caverns of the American political system.
Viet Thanh Nguyen
#69. They could take sesame seeds off the market and I wouldn't even care. I can't imagine 5 years from now saying, "Remember sesame seeds? What happened? All the buns are blank!"
Mitch Hedberg
#70. I don't really know what it is about vampires that makes them such a powerful symbol, metaphor, whatever in people's consciousness. But I do know they're tremendously powerful. I mean, there's a vampire on 'Sesame Street.' And Count Chocula. I don't know why it's so powerful.
Alan Ball
#71. 'Sesame Street' is awesome - not only because they teach, edify and entertain kids but because they savvily make it possible to do so with parental engagement, because the show is loaded with references for Mom and Dad.
Rachel Sklar
#72. There's the man with his cart who sold me rolls sprinkled with thyme and sesame every morning and then saluted me like a soldier.
Diana Abu-Jaber
#73. I never thought I'd be on Sesame Street with Elmo and Big Bird. I'm still thrilled. I'm on a high.
Michelle Obama
#74. I never let the worst things in life get the best of me.
So take these testes and, ummm ... open sesame.
King Sun
#75. Sesame oil is probably my favorite condiment, period.
Ted Allen
#76. In time the whole family perked up like Sesame Street puppets, hoping that cheer, if worked at hard enough, could sugar the living and quiet the dead.
Toni Morrison
#77. Open sesame,' I joked. Silence. Apparently, the Reapers weren't in a joking mood.
Jennifer Estep
#78. Some people think that macrobiotic philosophy is no more than the teaching of a diet - the eating of brown rice, carrots, and gomashio (sesame salt), others imagine that it is summed up in the statement, "Don't eat cake and sugar." How far from the truth!
George Ohsawa
#79. I'm sorry. It feels like the moment calls for some humor. You're ranting and dressed like Elmo.
The Cookie Monster.
Whatever, Rashid
Rion Amilcar Scott
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