Michael Morpurgo Quotes

It is the child's understanding that teaches the adults the way of the future. They're still doing it today with modern technology.

Michael Morpurgo

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• I've never been a partier.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Never
  • Been

• Tone can be as important as text.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Important
  • Text
  • Tone

• For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Mother
  • Feeling
  • Stories

• The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • Society
  • Product
  • Boredom

• I'd call my music rock but with pop hooks.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Music
  • Rock
  • Call

• I often reread books I have written.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Books
  • Written
  • Often

• We had a great dramatic society in school, and that's where I first got exposure both as an actor and director.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Great
  • School
  • Society

• It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.

  

  E. B. White
  • Man
  • Planet
  • Club

• Being an actor is a good way to earn a living. And to meet fabulous people. It's great to live very comfortably. I've been lucky, I've had a lot of fun with great roles, but it is true that if I were extremely rich, I would stop and I would go to play football on a beach in the Caribbean with my children.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• I like an even-keeled, slow-paced job.

  

  Washed Out
  • Job
  • Like

• Magic is the mysteries into which not everyone is so lucky, or unlucky, as to be initiated. It can be affected by belief, the whims of the unseen, harsh language. And it is not. Supposed. To make. Sense. In fact, I think it's coolest when it doesn't.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Think
  • Language
  • Magic

• When I needed to think or was really upset, generally I climbed a tree.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Think
  • Tree
  • Upset

• I think the future takes care of itself.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Think
  • Future
  • Care

• I thought, I need to reinvent myself. I want every day of life to be wonderful, fascinating, interesting, creative. And what am I gonna do to make that happen?

  

  Karen Allen
  • Life
  • Interesting
  • Day

• A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • People
  • Drawing
  • Irish

• We have a tendency to sugar coat the Civil Rights movement by showing arm in arm and everyone singing 'Kumbaya'. We don't really always show the resistance from the government, the resistance from the status quo, from the majority to silence the movement.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Government
  • Singing
  • Silence

• Stephen King has inspired me with his humor and honesty, and his admonition that the author's job is to tell the truth.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Job
  • Truth
  • King

• Peace can only thrive when the climate is right. We remain open to bilateral dialogue with Pakistan on all outstanding issues in an environment free from terrorism and violence.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Free
  • Peace
  • Environment

• Competing in pageants made me hyper-aware of the unfair expectations society places on women in terms of youth and beauty. But it also gave me empathy for women who use beauty as a creative exploration. When expressed healthfully, dressing up, doing hair, crafting makeup, etc., is an art form.

  

  Rae Carson
  • Up
  • Women
  • Art

• The ever clearer consciousness that love can dispense with marriage, yet marriage cannot dispense with love, is already partially recognized by modern society, by the facility of divorce.

  

  Ellen Key
  • Society
  • Marriage
  • Divorce

• African American children can't be educationally disadvantaged for 12 years and then experience a miracle cure when it comes time for admission into college.

  Chaka Fattah
  • Time
  • Children
  • Experience

• We must not believe those, who today, with philosophical bearing and deliberative tone, prophesy the fall of culture and accept the ignorabimus. For us there is no ignorabimus, and in my opinion none whatever in natural science. In opposition to the foolish ignorabimus our slogan shall be:

  

  David Hilbert
  • Believe
  • Today
  • Science

• Because they are children and for no other reason they have dignity and worth simply because they are.

  

  Barbara Coloroso
  • Children
  • Reason
  • Dignity

• It is the child's understanding that teaches the adults the way of the future. They're still doing it today with modern technology.

  

  Michael Morpurgo
  • Children
  • Today
  • Technology