Mike Berenstain famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

My parents and I always put great emphasis on telling stories that appeal to a child's sense of humor.
-- Mike Berenstain

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Families are where children live. Almost everything they experience is in the context of family life.
-- Mike Berenstain

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I sometimes find that my family's emphasis on stories, characters, and art that appeals directly to children rather than over their heads to adults is not fully appreciated by parents who may have more narrowly adult concerns and agendas.
-- Mike Berenstain

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Parents sometimes object to the amount of humor introduced into stories that are designed to teach moral or spiritual lessons. They seem to think that simple grim lecturing of children is the best way to achieve such goals.
-- Mike Berenstain

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My father was from a secular Jewish family and my mother from a nominally Christian (Episcopalian) one. They were not religious as adults. They did, however, believe in educating their children about the Bible. They viewed this as an essential part of any education.
-- Mike Berenstain

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As a young adult, I began to read widely in history, philosophy, and religion - including the Bible. I began to feel that a purely secular view of life was incomplete and that the universe was a fundamentally spiritual place.
-- Mike Berenstain

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I was influenced by my children's education in Quaker schools in the Philadelphia area. I experienced a spiritual awakening and became a Christian, was baptized, and joined a church.
-- Mike Berenstain

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There is no wonder more supernatural and divine in the life of a believer than the mystery and ministry of prayer...the hand of the child touching the arm of the Father and moving the wheel of the universe.
It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.
Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice in Wonderland and other favorites of the nursery.
Inculcating the various competing - competing, note - falsehoods of the major faiths into small children is a form of child abuse, and a scandal.
All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain; and deception put an end to these usual artifices.
I have always believed that the way my parents disciplined me has a great deal to do with the success I have enjoyed as a man.
I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories.
What's so great about television. You're able to tell a long story, where you couldn't really do that in a film because you have to tell a story in an hour and a half or two hours.
I'll tell you what I miss most. What I would love to do, more than anything, is just anthologies. With an anthology you can tell any story and be in every division of television. We don't have any anthologies anymore, do we?
Of course, I'm not allowed to talk about the script, but I can say it is a really good story.

Mike Berenstain famous quotes

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