Robert Fulghum World Quotations

I'd like to speak a foreign language well enough to get the jokes. I'd like to talk with Socrates, and watch Michelangelo sculpt David. I'd like to see the world as it was a million years ago and a million years hence.

to understand our love they'd have to turn the world upside down

I wanted to be a citizen of the world but not in a superficial way.

It wasn’t in books. It wasn’t in a church. What I needed to know was out there in the world.

Is it always to be a winners-losers world, or can we keep everyone in the game? Do we still have what it takes to find a better way?

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.

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.