Michael Morpurgo Quotes

I could believe only in the hell I was living in, a hell on earth, and it was man-made, not God-made.

Michael Morpurgo

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• But Buddy was an upper. He was happy. He loved music, and he was really happy. I don't know... I don't believe in reincarnation at all, but if all that stuff is true, then he might have been on his last time around.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Time
  • Music
  • Believe

• It has been said that love is a function of communication. I believe that to be true. I believe, by extension, that human understanding is a function of communication. And the better human beings understand one another, the higher the level of functioning.

  

  Dan Pallotta
  • Believe
  • Love
  • True

• When I first joined 'Dancing with the Stars,' I did not want to do it. It's not what I like, it's not what I believe in... the judges are fake, this is fake, that is fake... there is not a lot of reality.

  

  Maksim Chmerkovskiy
  • Believe
  • Reality
  • Stars

• Jewish sovereignty and governance over our ancestral home are, I believe, important goals that every Jew ought to support.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Home

• I believe in tackling things you're afraid of.

  

  Hannah Storm
  • Believe
  • You
  • I Believe

• It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.

  

  Ovid
  • Believe
  • U.S.
  • Let Us

• Both my grandmothers had upright pianos, and I just knew how to play since I was a child. Nobody taught me. I sounded like a grown-up, and then I learned how to read music. I played so well by ear I could fool the teacher to believe I could play the notes. She'd make the mistake of playing the song once, and I could play it.

  

  Valerie Simpson
  • Up
  • Music
  • Believe

• Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.

  

  Fanny Brice
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Wish

• I've been doing this career for a really long time, but there was not a lot of reason, at the time when I wrote 'Fight Song,' to believe that I should keep going.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Long

• I've always loved the language of flowers. I discovered Kate Greenaway's 'Language of Flowers' in a used bookstore when I was 16 and couldn't believe it was such a well-kept secret. How could something so beautiful and romantic be virtually unknown?

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Believe
  • Beautiful
  • Romantic

• If China was like the moon, then arriving in Saudi Arabia was Mars. At least you can see the moon from Earth.

  

  Basmah bint Saud
  • Earth
  • You
  • Moon

• And we believe in democracy - that the only real source of legitimacy is the consent of the people; that every individual is born equal with fundamental rights, inalienable rights, and that it is the responsibility of governments to uphold these rights.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Believe
  • Real

• Despite the company outside, I believe in equal rights for everyone. I think God loves all. Thanks for coming to the show though.

  

  Harry Styles One Direction
  • God
  • Believe
  • Thanks

• 'Man is an endangered species,' announces one of the titles at the beginning of the sci-fi lump 'Battlefield Earth.' And after about 20 minutes of this amateurish picture, extinction doesn't seem like such a bad idea.

  

  Elvis Mitchell
  • Bad
  • Earth
  • Beginning

• I had rock-star dreams from 8 or 9 almost nonstop. I thought it was going to be like being a god on earth: having as many women as you want whenever you want them, having super powers, being incredibly wealthy, never doing laundry.

  

  Rivers Cuomo Weezer
  • God
  • Women
  • Earth

• Lower your expectations of earth. This isn't heaven, so don't expect it to be.

  

  Max Lucado
  • Earth
  • Heaven

• First we have to believe, and then we believe.

  

  Martha Graham
  • Believe

• Whatever country you go to, you need to definitely follow the rules. So I believe it's very important for people, wherever they go, any immigrant should know or should try to learn something about the culture.

  

  David Ortiz
  • People
  • Believe
  • Important

• Creative writing lessons can be very useful, just like music lessons can be useful. To say, as Hanif Kureishi did, that 99.9% of students are talentless is cruel and wrong. I believe that certain writers like to believe they arrived into the world with special, unteachable powers because it is good for the ego.

  

  Matt Haig
  • World
  • Good
  • Music

• As a brave man goes into fire or flood or pestilence to save a human life, so a generous mind follows after truth and love, and is not frightened from the pursuit by danger or toil or obloquy.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Truth

• Never be afraid of not knowing. Find out.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Afraid
  • Find Out
  • Not Knowing

• Begin, ephebe, by perceiving the idea Of this invention, this invented world, The inconceivable idea of the sun.You must become an ignorant man again And see the sun again with an ignorant eye And see it clearly in the idea of it.Never suppose an inventing mind as source Of this idea nor for that mind compose A voluminous master folded in his fire.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • World
  • Mind
  • Fire

• The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading.

  

  Mem Fox
  • Children
  • Reading
  • Emotional

• I could believe only in the hell I was living in, a hell on earth, and it was man-made, not God-made.

  

  Michael Morpurgo
  • Believe
  • Earth
  • Hell