Jim Henson Quotes

Only time can heal your broken heart. Just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs.

~ Jim Henson

My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.

~ Jim Henson

If you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn't anything you can't do if you want to.

~ Jim Henson

I don't know exactly where ideas come from, but when I'm working well ideas just appear. I've heard other people say similar things - so it's one of the ways I know there's help and guidance out there. It's just a matter of our figuring out how to receive the ideas or information that are waiting to be heard.

~ Jim Henson

I try hard not to judge anyone, and I try to bless everyone who is a part of my life, particularly anyone with whom I am having any problems

~ Jim Henson

[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.

~ Jim Henson

Life is meant to be fun, and joyous, and fulfilling.

~ Jim Henson

Cara: *Flies*Gen: What? I don't have wings!Cara: Ofcourse not! You're a boy.

~ Jim Henson

There's not a word yet, for old friends who've just met.

~ Jim Henson

When single shines the triple sun,What was sundered and undoneShall be whole, the two made oneBy Gelfling hand, or else by none.

~ Jim Henson

I know that it's easier to portray a world that's filled with cynicism and anger, where problems are solved with violence. What's a whole lot tougher is to offer alternatives, to present other ways conflicts can be resolved, and to show that you can have a positive impact on your world. To do that, you have to put yourself out on a limb, take chances, and run the risk of being called a do-gooder.

~ Jim Henson

I think if you study--if you learn too much of what others have done, you may tend to take the same direction as everybody else.

~ Jim Henson

I think there are lots of ways of leading very good lives and growing spiritually. This process of growth goes on whether we believe it or not.

~ Jim Henson

Here's some simple advice: Always be yourself. Never take yourself to seriously. And beware of advice from experts, pigs, and members of Parliament.

~ Jim Henson

Moving right alongIn search of good timesAnd good news,With good friends you can't lose.This could become a habit.Opportunity just knocked,Let's reach out and grab it,Together we'll nab it,We'll hitch-hike, bus, or yellow cab it.

~ Jim Henson

Sometimes I have trouble falling asleep but it's not so badI don't worry and I don't weep. In fact I'm glad.Because I get up off my pillow and I flip on the light.I get down and get hip in the still of the night I stretch and I yawn and then I breathe real deep And dance myself to sleep.I hoof around my beddie just a-tappin' my toes Before I know what's happened I'm a-ready to doze Got some partners I can count the boogie-woogie sheepI dance myself to sleep.

~ Jim Henson

When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there.

~ Jim Henson

Someday we'll find it the rainbow connection, the lovers, the dreamers and me

~ Jim Henson

When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there.

~ Jim Henson

At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.

~ Jim Henson

I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting.

~ Jim Henson

We thought it would be fun to try to design a show that would work well internationally and so that' s what we're intending to do with Fraggle Rock, and we are indeed now selling it around the world.

~ Jim Henson