Caroll Spinney Quotes

Big Bird is based on what I learned as a child.

I learned my ABCs, 1-2-3 from 'Sesame Street.'

There is nothing that 'Sesame Street' can't teach you, if you let it.

Yeah, I think we did the term Muppets before we got the show Sam and Friends - a few months after I started working.

I've learned to say, 'I'm a friend of Big Bird. He even taught me how to sound like him.'

'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.

Sesame Street... I think they were all high. With Big Bird, they had to be high.

Education is very important to me, as is helping children.

My mother taught me how to write.

I really learned the power of the tube on Sesame Street and how it can influence a very young mind.

We were only allowed to watch Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers and 3-2-1 Contact!

My father was a writer and an acting teacher.

America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.

Big Bird was the biggest star, I mean, children's favorite for a number of years. I have a 22-year-old granddaughter whose first words were 'Big Bird.'

My passion has always been books and literature, and teaching.

I was a huge Muppet fan growing up, but that was the extent of my puppet knowledge. I really loved the art form and the whole Henson universe.

'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.

I'm not actually teaching any more, but I am writing pieces for schools all the time, and for kids.

I'm a huge Muppets fan. Gigantic. I think they're genius. I think they're some of the best work out there and completely underrated, just because of how genius they are. I love that kind of humor. It's so innocent but brilliant.

The minute we stop learning, we begin death, the process of dying. We learn from each other with every action we perform. We are teaching goodness or evil every time we step out of the house and into the street.

The great want of our race is perfect educators to train new-born minds, who are infallible teachers of what is right and true.

They say that people teach what they need to learn. By adopting the role of happiness teacher, if only for myself, I was trying to find the method to conquer my particular faults and limitations.

I'd like to share my experiences and the lessons I've learned and hopefully create some amazing, fun courses.

I could do a thousand documentaries on poverty and poor people that would be watched by a handful of the convinced, but I was never really going to have an influence on my times -- (as I might if I develop Sesame Street).

When I got to sit in Big Bird's nest with Big Bird and sing the song, 'Sing. Sing a song. Sing out loud,' that was my crowning achievement.