Michael Morpurgo Quotes
Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children.
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I don't care how many championships you've won or how many records you've broken - if you've had a hand in pushing forward not only a game but women in sport's movement, then I think that's pretty darn good.
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What I want is to try and get across the idea that reading for pleasure is so beneficial. And turn children on who have maybe been switched off reading or never found a love of it in the first place.
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The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.
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My grandparents never understood why my mother Noreen chose such exotic names for her children: Damon and me. My granny insisted on calling my brother Dermot - a good Irish name - until she died; I was just known as 'wee one.'
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Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me.
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Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
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India has progressed to a stage where a divorcee status hardly matters. What matters is that you raise a positive, independent, well-behaved and intelligent child.
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Many children with cancer in the developing world can be cured. But without appropriate treatment, few survive.
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I know it's good when I see a smaller film get recognized because it means more publicity for them. When you start producing and directing the movies become a little more like your children.
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I have all these nice clothes that I've bought over the years, and I never wear anything because, when you have a toddler, everything gets spilled, and they wipe their boogers on you, whatever. You end up shifting a little bit, and your values shift a bit, too. I don't care about that as much as I used to.
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I no longer care about the financial system. I gave them my roadmap. OK? Thanks, bye. I've no idea what's going on. I'm disconnected. I'm totally disengaged.
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It's not just about you taking care of 'your' child. It's about you taking care of these children.
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I can tell you that it is no game for children, and I will confess that, in spite of my nine campaigns, I felt myself turn pale when the first ball flashed past me.
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Man is by nature a political animal.
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If someone had told us in 1945 that in our lifetime religious wars would rage on virtually every continent, that thousands of children would once again be dying of starvation, we would not have believed it. Or that racism and fanaticism would flourish once again, we would not have believed it.
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Ensuring guns are out of the reach of children and holding those accountable who are irresponsible is the first step in reducing firearm accidents.
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All across this country, undocumented immigrants are living in fear of seeing their families torn apart because of our broken immigration system. Many of those immigrants are children who were brought here at a young age through no fault of their own.
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I hate the idea of making any of my children into a mini-me. That would be terrible.
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In principle the first thing on the stream would be my birth certificate, a little electronic version of that, my parents would put my school records, health records, whatever of their child onto the stream. And the stream continues to flow forward through time.
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'Honor in the Dust' is less about the freedom of the Philippines than the soul of the United States.
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Christ does not save us by acting a parable of divine love; he acts the parable of divine love by saving us. That is the Christian faith.
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If you have the skill, then you can move as you age.
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We always blame other people when things go wrong. For example, family to friends, you think they'll stay by your side, and you realise they never do. But that's life.
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Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children.
