Top 100 Rogers Quotes
#1. It sounds old-fashioned to say, but we have some kind of purpose for being here, not poets or writers, but all of us humans.
Pattiann Rogers
#2. The older we get, the fewer things seem worth waiting in line for.
Will Rogers
#3. The trouble with our praying is, we just do it as a means of last resort.
Will Rogers
#4. My parents always told me that nothing was impossible.
Richard Rogers
#5. The theater is a great equalizer: it is the only place where the poor can look down on the rich.
Will Rogers
#6. Villains never know they are villains in a picture so I play this like I'm the nicest guy in the world.
Wayne Rogers
#7. A scar is a wound that has healed. We need to bring our wounds to Jesus, let Him heal them, and use our scars for Jesus. Our scars may be our greatest ministry.
Adrian Rogers
#8. Apollo wasn't just about sending people into space. It transformed so much of our economy. From our education system to so many of the things we use today, it was a vision that led to the total transformation of the planet.
Kesha Rogers
#9. A man who attempts to read all the new productions must do as the flea does,
skip.
Samuel Rogers
#10. There is two types of Larceny, Petty and Grand. They are supposed to be the same in the eyes of the law, but judges always put a little extra on you for Petty, which is kind of a fine for stupidness.
Will Rogers
#11. She was a woman made up of details, and he saw them, every one.
Evelyn Rogers
#12. Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.
Will Rogers
#13. You will never get anywhere if you do not do your homework.
Jim Rogers
#14. You know, you don't have to look like everybody else to be acceptable and to feel acceptable.
Fred Rogers
#15. I never met a man I didn't like until I met Will Rogers.
Mort Sahl
#16. It's really easy to fall into the trap of believing that what we do is more important than what we are. Of course, it's the opposite that's true: What we are ultimately determines what we do!
Fred Rogers
#17. To say that you are being carried is a declaration of enormous faith and hope.
Fred Rogers
#18. The French couldn't hate us any more unless we helped 'em out in another war.
Will Rogers
#19. 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
#20. This person should not be directly connected with the President Ford Committee nor should he be seen as a member of the liberal wing of the Republican Party. He should be someone like Laird or Rogers Morton.
Robert Teeter
#21. I regret it when I suppress my feelings too long and they burst forth in ways that are distorted or attacking or hurtful.
Carl R. Rogers
#22. The gifts we treasure most over the years are often small and simple. In easy times and tough times, what seems to matter most is the way we show those nearest us that we've been listening to their needs, to their joys, and to their challenges.
Fred Rogers
#23. Taking care is one way to show your love. Another way is letting people take good care of you when you need it.
Fred Rogers
#24. Let Wall Street have a nightmare and the whole country has to help them back to bed again.
Will Rogers
#25. If you need encouragement, give it. If you need love, give it.Whatever you need, give it away.
Adrian Rogers
#26. If you want to know how a man stands, go among the people who are in his same business.
Will Rogers
#27. And if you call one a real estate agent and he won't sell you anything. He is a REALATOR. It's the same as what the old fashioned real estate agent used to be only the commission is different.
Will Rogers
#28. I have come to feel that the only learning which significantly influences behavior is self-discovered, self-appropriated learning.
Carl R. Rogers
#29. God prefers fruits of the spirit over religious nuts.
Adrian Rogers
#30. I don't care how little your country is, you got a right to run it like you want to. When the big nations quit meddling then the world will have peace.
Will Rogers
#31. My strongest quality as an actor is taking direction. I will give my performance as a template and if the director gives any instruction, I take that information, process it and morph it into the next take. I love the feeling I get when nailing a scene through direction.
James Preston Rogers
#32. Everything worthwhile is a good idea, but did you ever notice there is more bad ideas that will work than there is good ones?
Will Rogers
#33. When a man wants to know who lives in the apartment opposite, it's always a pretty girl," I said. "When a pretty girl wants to know, it's generally a man with field glasses. One of the most popular of New York sports.
Joel Townsley Rogers
#34. If you want to be lucky, do your homework.
Jim Rogers
#35. The English should give Ireland home rule - and reserve the motion picture rights.
Will Rogers
#36. In appreciating our neighbor, we're participating in something truly sacred.
Fred Rogers
#37. Are you all right, Sir?"
Yes, I'm fine. My life is totally ruined but I'm fine. I feel free, detached from everything."
"Then you're an outsider to life.
Tionne Rogers
#39. When I think of Robert Frost's poems, like "The Road Not Taken", I feel the support of someone who is on my side, who understands what life's choices are like, someone who says, "I've been there, and it's okay to go on".
Fred Rogers
#40. Both political parties have their good times and bad times, only they have them at different times.
Will Rogers
#41. On opening night, standing under the Rogers's marquee, [Lin] realized that if Eliza's struggle was the element of Hamilton's story that had inspired him the most, then the show itself was a part of her legacy.
Jeremy McCarter
#42. I recently learned that in an average lifetime a person walks about sixty-five thousand miles. That's two and a half times around the world. I wonder where your steps will take you. I wonder how you'll use the rest of the miles you're given.
Fred Rogers
#43. When your in the movie business you have a start date and a stop date.
Wayne Rogers
#45. Youth is a frame of mind. If you get out there and enjoy it, you can have it at any time of your life.
Kenny Rogers
#47. You know, a Communist's whole life work is based on complaint of how everything is done ... So if they ever get their country running good they will defeat their own cause.
Will Rogers
#48. One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.
Will Rogers
#49. Yes, I loved MASH. As we are sitting here now talking, it's playing somewhere in the world.
Wayne Rogers
#50. A conference is just an admission that you want somebody to join you in your troubles.
Will Rogers
#51. If you enjoy sticking a straw in a dog's ear, don't sit next to the pooch with a milkshake.
Alan Rogers
#52. Most of all, we should remember all of us are capable of individually helping advance the spirit of equality for all.
Mike Rogers
#53. Every day you meet a delegation going to some convention to try and change the way of somebody else's life.
Will Rogers
#54. More words ain't good for anything in the world only to bring on more argument.
Will Rogers
#56. Great things are possible only to strong souls and it's from the trivial events of daily life that strength is won.
L. W Rogers
#57. He who procrastinates will light the long fuse of dynamite.
Geoff Rogers
#58. The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.
Will Rogers
#59. Go! you may call it madness, folly; You shall not chase my gloom away! There 's such a charm in melancholy I would not if I could be gay.
Samuel Rogers
#60. Yes, it benefits the planet, but I don't lead with the green message anymore because I think there's a more evergreen way to look at it, which is efficiency.
Elizabeth Rogers
#61. There's a new hit rock group or singer every five minutes, but with country music, you have one hit and those people love you forever.
Kenny Rogers
#62. One thing led to another and I didn't have to take tickets any more because I now worked for Mr. Rogers. He said if I was going to take care of his horses than I'd better learn how to ride. He was very kind to me.
Glenn Ford
#63. People only learn through two things. One is reading and the other is association with smarter people
Will Rogers
#64. I think when young kids can see Jason Collins, myself and Michael Sam, and Abby Wambach and Megan Rapinoe and different athletes come out, it will definitely change and encourage younger gay men and women to play the sport.
Robbie Rogers
#65. Renaissance cowboy/raconteur Pop Wagner ... deadpan funny ... his presence is like meeting Woody Guthrie and Will Rogers riding a single, many colored horse. Pop is a kind of 'textile genius' who is able to spin, at once, both yarn and rope.
Ron Miles
#66. What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.
Will Rogers
#67. If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.
Will Rogers
#68. My father was a Tuskegee Airmen captain in the Air Force and a very strong personality. He believed in fairness and ethics and living up to the commitments you make to others. He ultimately became a judge, and he would talk to me over and over about how important it is to be fair.
John W. Rogers Jr.
#69. 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
#70. There are those who say that children make a rich man poor. No, they have it backward. Children make a poor man rich. A rich man can't take his riches to heaven, but I'm taking my children
Adrian Rogers
#72. The good are better made by ill, As odours crushed are sweeter still.
Samuel Rogers
#73. In my relationships with persons I have found that it does not help, in the long run, to act as though I were something that I am not.
Carl R. Rogers
#74. Politicians, after all, are not over a year behind public opinion.
Will Rogers
#75. I've got one shot going through this life. I want to make sure I do as much as I can.
Jim Rogers
#76. I may have a slightly paranoid nature, a fear of losing control of my life.
Wayne Rogers
#77. Of course I know very little about architecture, and the older I get the less I know.
Richard Rogers
#78. In moments such as these, it's the minor seconds that count. Seconds that can make or break you. Seconds that can save your life.
Rebecca A. Rogers
#79. So sweep away the sand an' dry the ocean, an' just pack the moon an' stars up in a cardboard box. And stop the clouds from chimin', block the sun from shinin',an' paint the sky a deeper shade of blue, 'cause my world's over without you.
Kenny Rogers
#80. Coolidge made less speeches and got more votes than any man that ever run. (William Jennings) Bryan was listened to and cheered by more people than any single human in politics, and he lost. So there is a doubt just whether talking does you good or harm.
Will Rogers
#81. When I was very young, most of my childhood heroes wore capes, flew through the air, or picked up buildings with one arm. They were spectacular and got a lot of attention. But as I grew, my heroes changed, so that now I can honestly say that anyone who does anything to help a child is a hero to me.
Fred Rogers
#82. If I were to search for the central core of difficulty in people as I have come to know them, it is that in the great majority of cases they despise themselves, regarding themselves as worthless and unlovable.
Carl Rogers
#83. There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.
Will Rogers
#84. Americans will feed anyone that's not close to them.
Will Rogers
#85. This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.
Will Rogers
#86. Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.
Will Rogers
#87. When things go wrong on a macroeconomic level, it's almost always this way. People find someone to blame, whether it's blacks, whites, Christians, Jews, Muslims-whoever.
Jim Rogers
#88. There is no income tax in Russia. But there's no income.
Will Rogers
#89. Typically we don't think of cities as being particularly extreme environments, but few places on earth get as hot as a rooftop or as dry as the corner of a heated living room.
Adam Rogers
#90. It is our continuing love for our children that makes us want them to become all they can be, and their continuing love for us that helps them accept healthy discipline
from us and eventually from themselves.
Fred Rogers
#91. They are having quite an argument over Treasury Secretary Mellon's Tax Bill. Mr. Mellon wants to cut the surtax on the rich, and leave it as is on the poor, as there is more poor than rich. I suppose the majority will win.
Will Rogers
#92. My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people.
Richard Rogers
#93. The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How is the president?'
Will Rogers
#94. God does business with those who mean business.
Adrian Rogers
#95. When you choose sin the baggage that comes with it is error.
Adrian Rogers
#96. I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him 'father.'
Will Rogers
#97. Our worlds needs more time to wonder and reflect but there is too much fast paced constant distraction.
Fred Rogers
#98. Afterward, Sara didn't really remember falling asleep, still wearing her robe although she meant to get dressed and had had Serafina lay out a pair of jeans and a blouse for her. In any case, she had slept. And there had been dreams
of the unsettling kind she didn't want to recall.
Rosemary Rogers
#99. A church is an incubator, a nursery, a grade school. You start where people are and move them to where they need to be.
Adrian Rogers
#100. Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.
Will Rogers
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