Bob Keeshan Quotes

I am a supporter of the Dream Act. There is an intuitive and moral case to be made that you don’t punish children for the sins of their parents.

When it comes to children’s issues, children don’t vote.

I made and created a show that my family was all on board with, and we were so excited because we got to work together.

I want to say to mothers out there, you know, take your children to marches. Take them to meetings because this is a way that they can become strong, and they understand what politics is all about because they are actually living it.

Parents have to get over the idea that their children belong just to them; children are a family affair.

Millions of children are disempowered and we need to empower them.

Children are to be welcomed, cherished, protected.

What would happen if we listened to children as much as we talked to them?

Responsibility is fostered by allowing children a voice and wherever indicated a choice in matters that affect them.

As you pray and serve others, your knowledge that you are a child of God and your feelings about Him will grow.

Spouses have each other, and even when one eventually dies, they have memories of a time when they existed before that other person and can more readily imagine a life without them. Likewise, parents may have other children to be concerned with--a future to protect for them. To lose a sibling is to lose the one person with whom one shares a lifelong bond that is meant to continue on into the future.

Birds in their little nests agree; And 'tis a shameful sight When children of one family Fall out, and chide, and fight.

there is a spirit in every home, a sort of composite spirit composed of the thoughts and feelings of the members of the family as a composite photograph is formed of the features of different individuals.

I think we need to teach children the importance of others, and that they cannot grow in this world without taking in others. The more worlds they take in, these unique worlds, the more they can become. We need to teach them to trust others again, because we're all frightened to death of each other. We're building higher and higher walls, stronger and stronger locks. Tear down the walls! Every day I see how we're distrusting and it hurts.

Participating in Eurovision felt like coming home

It is hard to find someone who will give your children a feeling of security while it lasts and not wound them too much when it isfinished, who will treat those children as if they were her own, but knows--and never forgets--that they are yours.

When I am truly present, I feel alive, and I want everyone around me to share that feeling so we can make the most of that moment together.

It is important for us also to cultivate in our own family a sense that we belong together eternally, that whatever changes outside our home, there are fundamental aspects of our relationship which will never change.

I like feeling a sense of unity with the crowd even though everybody might be thinking something different.

What I loved about [The Other Woman] movie was the same thing. It was three women who would never have come together for any other reason except that they had something in common which was this common cause, and that's really the feeling that I wanted this movie to have. It was a huge influence for it.

There is only one man in the world and his name is All Men. There is only one woman in the world and her name is All Women. There is only one child in the world and the child's name is All Children.

I'm not trying to be philosophical, but I really think it's my job to help children. And I don't care if people laugh.

If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct.

Children can feel, but they cannot analyse their feelings; and if the analysis is partially effected in thought, they know not how to express the result of the process in words.