Joan Ganz Cooney famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Cherishing children is the mark of a civilized society.
-- Joan Ganz Cooney

#Children #Cherish #Mark
In South Africa, where HIV-positive children are often shunned, we have an HIV-positive Muppet to teach children to be friendly with children with HIV. But they use local actors. And it's not always a street. Sometimes it's 'Sesame Plaza,' or 'Sesame Tree.'
-- Joan Ganz Cooney

#Children #Tree #Friendly
The question for me was, could TV actually teach? I knew it could, because I knew 3-year-olds who sang beer commercials!
-- Joan Ganz Cooney

#Beer #Years #Tvs
Probably any successful career has X number of breaks in it, and maybe the difference between successful people and those who aren't super achievers is taking advantage of those breaks.
-- Joan Ganz Cooney

#Successful #Careers #Differences
There is a young and impressionable mind out there that is hungry for information. It has latched on to an electronic tube as its main source of nourishment.
-- Joan Ganz Cooney

#Women #Memorable #Mind
I wish I could tell you that the Children's Television Workshop and Sesame Street were thanks to my genius, but it really was a lucky break.
-- Joan Ganz Cooney

#Children #Luck #Wish
Itâ€™s not whether children learn from television, itâ€™s what children learn from television... because everything that children see on television is teaching them something.
-- Joan Ganz Cooney

#Children #Teaching #Television
It’s not whether children learn from television, it’s what children learn from television... because everything that children see on television is teaching them something.
-- Joan Ganz Cooney

#Children #Teaching #Television

When we have accepted Jesus Christ, we have become akin to the Father; having become real children of God, we then have the spirit of sonship by which we can come into His presence and make known our wants in a familiar way.
I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, "What happened next?
It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.
Behave in life as at a dinner party. Is anything brought around to you? Put out your hand and take your share with moderation. Does it pass by you? Do not stop it. Is it not yet come? Do not stretch your desire towards it, but wait till it reaches you. Do this with regard to children, to a spouse, to public post, to riches, and you will eventually be a worthy guest at the feast of life.
Everything. I have done everything you wanted...You asked that the child be taken. I took him. You cowered before me. I was frightening...I have reordered time...I have turned the world upside down...And I have done it all for you. I am exhausted from living up to your expectations.
Because there is nothing here than invites us to cherish unhappy lovers. Nothing is more vain than to die for love. What we ought to do is live.
Embrace your death. . . . Cherish your awareness of death as a gift from the universe.
The Democratic Party has pretty much abandoned all the things that they cherish.
A few question marks are being asked in the Honduran defence
I grew up under demanding people, that demanded things from you, expected you to toe the mark.

Joan Ganz Cooney famous quotes

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