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1 " ...Rogers offered this definitive observation to a meeting of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry: "It's easy to convince people that children need to learn the alphabet and numbers...How do we help people to realize that what matters even more than the superimposition of adult symbols is how a person's inner life finally puts together the alphabet and numbers of his outer life? What really matters is whether he uses the alphabet for the declaration of war or the description of a sunrise--his numbers for the final count at Buchenwald or the specifics of a brand-new bridge. "
― Maxwell King, , The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers
2 " You know, I loved children, I loved drama, I loved music, I loved whimsy, I loved puppetry." - Fred Rogers "
3 " And when Stumbaugh died, Rogers was there to speak at the funeral. "He was tenacious about those friendships," said Maggie Kimmel, a University of Pittsburgh professor who worked with and wrote about Fred Rogers. "
4 " We can't always know what's behind a child's question. But if we let a child know we respect the question, we're letting that child know that we respect him or her. What a powerful way to say, 'I care about you!' - Fred Rogers "
5 " One of the challenges of her [Producer Margy Whitmer's] job was to find practical applications for Fred Rogers's sometimes wacky ideas...He couldn't really visualize what he wanted until he saw something, and then he would know that he didn't want that, or he'd want it changed. The hardest part was that he had such respect for the art crew, their talent, their whimsy, and their wackiness, that it was hard for him to tell them he didn't like something. "
6 " Everyone...came to deeply appreciate Fred-Time, that slow-paced world of quiet with Rogers at its center. "
7 " Well, he didn't want the children to confuse make-believe with reality. Therefore, he wanted a definite transition saying, "We're going from this to that. This is one world, that is another, but it's a play world." - Francis Chapman (on Fred Rogers) "
8 " In everything he wrote, in all the programming he produced, in the life of caring, kindness, and modesty that he led, he set a very clear example. His legacy lives in the concept of a caring neighborhood where people watch out for one another, no matter where they come from or what they look like. "
9 " I think that finding ways of showing our feelings - ways that don't hurt ourselves or anybody else - is one of the most important things we can learn to do.' - Fred Rogers "
10 " Human kindness was probably the single most important thing to Fred Rogers. "
