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Your Quotes for 4 June 2005 - Robert Fulghum

Robert Fulghum was born at Waco, Texas on this day in 1937, and grew up there. He wasn't afraid to get his hands dirty, he worked as ditch digger, newspaper carrier, ranch hand, and singing cowboy before college. He went to work for IBM but soon went back to class, this time at seminary. During 22 years as a Unitarian minister in the Seattle area he started writing short essays and became known nationally when his first collection, "All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten", stayed on the New York Times bestsellers list for two years.

All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned - the biggest word of all - look.

Share everything. Don't take things that aren't yours. Put things back where you found them.

The world does not need tourists who ride by in a bus clucking their tongues. The world as it is needs those who will love it enough to change it, with what they have, where they are.

Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.

Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.

And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out into the world it is best to hold hands and stick together.
     - All from Robert Fulghum

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