Quote

A giraffe has a black tongue twenty-seven inches long and no vocal cords. A giraffe has nothing to say. He just goes on giraffing.

Robert Fulghum

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Robert Fulghum
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 4
Author
Novelist
Writer
Waco
Texas
Robert Lee Fulghum
Twenty
Twenties
Tongue
Seven
Goes
Giraffe
Black
Cords
Nothing
Vocal
Long
Inches

More quotes by Robert Fulghum

Image
Imagination is more important than information. Einstein said that, and he should know. And they come. And they look. And we push. And they fly. We to stay and die on our beds. They to go and die howsoever, yet inspiring those who come after them to find their own edge. And fly.
Robert Fulghum
Image
The gift was not large as money goes, and my need was not great, but the spirit of the gift is beyond price and leaves me blessed and in debt.
Robert Fulghum
Image
The leaves let go, the seeds let go, and I must let go sometimes, too, and cast my lot with another of nature’s imperfect but tenacious survivors.
Robert Fulghum
Image
Above all, if what you've done is stupid, but it works, it ain't stupid.
Robert Fulghum
Image
Just when you thought that you already learned the way how to live, life changes - and you're left the same as you begun.
Robert Fulghum
Image
You will continue to read stories of crookedness and corruption - of policemen who lie and steal, doctors who reap where they do not sew, politicians on the take. Don't be misled. They are news because they are the exceptions.
Robert Fulghum
Image
Living things have been doing just that for a long, long time. Through every kind of disaster and setback and catastrophe. We are survivors.
Robert Fulghum
Image
If you want an interesting party sometime, combine cocktails and a fresh box of crayons for everyone.
Robert Fulghum
Image
Hide-and-seek, grown-up style. Wanting to hide. Needing to be sought. Confused about being found.
Robert Fulghum
Image
To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence, hollering, 'What's it for?'
Robert Fulghum
Image
We could learn a lot from crayons some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others bright, some have weird names, but they all have learned to live together in the same box.
Robert Fulghum
Image
Anything can happen. The great banana peel of existence is always on the floor somewhere.
Robert Fulghum
Image
Weddings seem to be magnets for mishap and for whatever craziness lurks in family closets. In more ways than one, weddings bring out the ding-dong on everybody involved.
Robert Fulghum
Image
Desire is the intangible quality that has more impact on success than talent, education, or IQ. You can't see desire, but you can feel its presence, and see its results in the lives of successful people.
Robert Fulghum
Image
You may never have proof of your importance but you are more important than you think. There are always those who couldn’t do without you. The rub is that you don’t always know who.
Robert Fulghum
Image
Speed and efficiency do not always increase the quality of life.
Robert Fulghum
Image
Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts.
Robert Fulghum
Image
As one old gentleman put it, Son, I don't care if you're stark nekkid and wear a bone in your nose. If you kin fiddle, you're all right with me. It's the music we make that counts.
Robert Fulghum
Image
It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have a bake-sale to buy a bomber.
Robert Fulghum
Image
An artists job is to see. And to go out in the world and see it firsthand, just as it is to report with line and words what is seen. To be in the world, not just study about the world, that is the artists task
Robert Fulghum